After Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was murdered in an apparent botched robbery during the 2016 presidential election, Fox News and others in the right-wing media pushed a conspiracy theory that his death was linked to hacked DNC emails that were released by WikiLeaks. In particular, Fox's Sean Hannity doggedly pushed the conspiracy theory even after Rich's family asked him to stop until advertisers began departing his program. Rich's family sued Fox News for continuing to promote the conspiracy theory even after it had retracted a false story about it.
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Tell Your Cable Provider: Don't Let Fox Raise My Bill!Say #NoFoxFeeFox is trying to force cable customers to pay more for TV in order to subsidize Fox News’ hateful, deceptive content — the “Fox Fee.” Your provider could be in negotiations with Fox RIGHT NOW. Unless you tell them to say #NoFoxFee, YOU could be footing the bill for Fox News whether you watch or not.
Contact your provider NOW. Based on previous contract renewals, Spectrum/Charter, Xfinity/Comcast, and Cox could all be in negotiations. Tell them you want them to stand up to Fox's strong-arming and say #NoFoxFee!
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Tell Advertisers: Drop FoxFox News is a malevolent and destructive forceNot only is Fox News' programming becoming increasingly extreme, deceitful, and racist, but the network is also functioning as Donald Trump's personal propaganda operation. Enough is enough. Tell advertisers to drop Fox!
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Join the Fight to Stop Sean HannityHe's A Full-Blown PropagandistAt this point, if a company is sponsoring Sean Hannity's show, it is essentially supporting a Trump propaganda operation. Sign up here to join the effort to encourage Hannity's advertisers to stop financially supporting his propaganda.
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Tell Facebook: Stop Enabling Cambridge Analytica, The Trump Campaign, and Other CheatersStop enabling businesses that game the systemFacebook needs to ban every entity, be it the Trump campaign or any other, that is using a copy of Cambridge Analytica's data or any other data set acquired by cheating.
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Tell Facebook: The Weekly Standard is Not Fit to Fact CheckThe Weekly Standard is a right-wing misinformerFacebook is trying to team up with The Weekly Standard, a right-wing publication with a history of pushing partisan lies, to fact-check news shared on its platform. We can't let it happen.
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Tell Fox News: Take Action Against Sexual HarassmentFox needs to fix its culture of sexual harassmentGetting rid of Roger Ailes was a long overdue start to addressing these very serious charges of sexual misconduct. Fox has an obligation to take this matter seriously, not just for the sake of its staff, but also for its audience.
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Tell Congress: Save Public BroadcastingTrump wants to eliminate the Corporation for Public BroadcastingThe Corporation for Public Broadcasting relies almost entirely on the federal government for its funding. It’s one of the last remaining U.S. media groups that is insulated from commercial or political pressure. In today’s fragmented news landscape, the independent voices it supports are more valuable than ever.
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Tell The White House Press Corps: Stand Up To Trump’s BlacklistJournalists covering Trump need to stand up and fight backTime and time again, as one news outlet after another is frozen out by the White House, reporters continue to go about their interactions with Trump and his people as if nothing is wrong. Enough is enough. Some principles are more important than competition among outlets.
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Tell Colleges: Don’t Let Milo Yiannopoulos Harass Your StudentsHarassment has no place on a college campusCollege and university campuses need to be places where ideas can be debated vigorously, and sometimes that debate will become uncomfortable or controversial. But when discussion devolves into outright harassment of students, it is time to draw a line.
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Tell NBC: Dump TrumpHaving Trump as an executive producer is intolerableVariety reported on December 8 that Donald Trump will remain as executive producer of The Celebrity Apprentice when the show returns in 2017. This will mean that NBC will have a fiduciary relationship with the president of the United States, creating an unprecedented conflict of interest for the network.
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Tell Facebook: Fix Your Fake News ProblemIt's time for Mark Zuckerberg to take actionIt’s high time that Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook fix their fake news problem and address the cesspool of misinformation that Facebook has become.
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Tell CNN: Cut Ties with Corey LewandowskiHe puts his colleagues at riskCNN hired Corey Lewandowski in late June after Donald Trump relieved him of duties as campaign manager. What looked at first like an indefensible hire has mushroomed into perhaps the worst conflict-of-interest problem in the history of cable news. It’s time to send a message to Jeff Zucker and CNN: Cut ties with Corey Lewandowski at once.
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Tell The Media: End Donald Trump’s Extraordinary Phone PrivilegeIt’s time to take away Trump’s special privilegeThe news media has given Donald Trump a special phone privilege, allowing him to call in to shows instead of forcing him to appear via satellite or in studio. As a result of this privilege, Trump can appear on more shows, and he can avoid being confronted by images and demonstrations showing his lies for what they are. Tell news networks that it’s time to take away Trump’s special privilege.
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Hold Bill O’Reilly AccountableHe deceived viewers about his “combat zone” experienceBill O'Reilly has held himself up as a paragon of virtue and truth while attacking anyone that dares to challenge his credibility. But his deceptions about reporting from war zones undermine and insult actual war reporters who risk their lives to report from actual combat zones.
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Fight Misinformation On Local NewsFox uses their local news stations to push misinformationBy operating local stations, Fox News executives can transmit key right-wing talking points to large numbers of people who don't watch cable news. And with Fox-owned stations now reaching 37% of U.S. television audiences, that's a huge opportunity for the conservative media.
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Join The Fight to Stop RushRush Limbaugh is bad for businessAdvertisers and radio executives are realizing that associating with Rush Limbaugh is bad for business. But Limbaugh hasn't changed his tune. Every day, he takes to the airwaves to peddle remarkable new slurs, smears, and conspiracy theories. It's up to this grassroots movement to keep up the pressure.
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CNN: Climate Change Is NewsTell the network to commit to journalism and report the newsIt's time for CNN to revisit their commitment to journalism. Tell Jeff Zucker that when there's news about climate change, his network needs to report it.
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Cover Net NeutralityThe open and equal internet we have today is in dangerA combined Time Warner and 21st Century Fox would create a company so large that it would radically transform the U.S. media landscape. It would be terrible for consumers and the market.
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Time Warner: Don’t Sell to Rupert MurdochA merger would radically transform the U.S. media landscapeA combined Time Warner and 21st Century Fox would create a content company so large that it would radically transform the media landscape. Murdoch would control 40% of the cable market. Giving one company this much control over our media would be terrible for consumers and the marketplace. Tell Time Warner not to sell to Rupert Murdoch.
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CBS News: Explain Discredited ReportWhy did CBS put Dylan Davies on the air?60 Minutes made errors at nearly every step of the reporting process. While questions still remain about why, it's important that the network start to clean up its mess.
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Expose CNBC’s Climate DenialCNBC denied science in more than half of its 2013 climate coverageCNBC has had multiple opportunities to address its climate denial problem, but has only let it get worse. At this point, the network can no longer claim ignorance: CNBC is intentionally misleading its viewers about climate change, and it needs to stop.
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NBC: No Russia for 2013 Miss Universe PageantDon't reward Russia's anti-gay crackdownRussia's legislature unanimously adopted an extreme new law banning “gay propaganda” in order to crack down on its LGBT community. The decision to host the pageant in Moscow this year is a giant step backward.
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ABC News: Correct False Benghazi ReportABC News needs to correct its false report on the airThe recent controversy over ABC's debunked Benghazi “exclusive” is threatening their credibility. Help us hold the media accountable by telling ABC News to correct its report on the air.
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Tell The News to Cover Climate ChangeThe news has to do a better job in 2013Twelve. That's the combined number of segments that ABC, CBS and NBC's nightly news programs devoted to climate change throughout all of 2012. This is woefully inadequate. We need coverage that's consistent with the importance of dealing with this issue.
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Tell the Wall Street Journal to Disclose Campaign OfficialsThe Wall Street Journal has a responsibility to its readersThe Wall Street Journal published more than 20 op-eds written by 10 Romney campaign advisers without disclosing their campaign roles. Newspaper readers should know when they're reading something written by someone involved in a political campaign.
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MSNBC: Sanction Pat BuchananMSNBC can no longer ignore Buchanan's bigotry.Buchanan is a paid MSNBC analyst. For too long, MSNBC has helped validate his vitriol by giving Buchanan a national platform. But enough is enough. It's time for MSNBC to stop ignoring Buchanan's bigotry.
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CBS: Don’t Legitimize Discredited Fringe GroupsSharyl Attkisson shouldn't be accepting an award from a widely discredited fringe organizationBy showing up to accept the award and deliver a speech, CBS News lends credence to an otherwise disreputable fringe group and helps pave the way for wider acceptance. CBS’ Attkisson will be the first reporter from a mainstream network to receive the award. Past recipients include Andrew Breitbart, Michelle Malkin and other disreputable right-wing noisemakers.
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Stop BeckGlenn Beck has now been permanently “transition[ed] off” Fox News.More than 300 advertisers excluded their ads from Glenn Beck's Fox News program since late July 2009 when he called President Obama a “racist” who has a “deep-seated hatred for white people.”
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Sponsors: Don’t Support Dr. Laura’s RhetoricAsk sponsors to pledge to stop funding and supporting her showDr. Laura Schlessinger launched into a racially-charged rant on her nationally syndicated radio show, using the n-word 11 times and berating an African American caller who complained about her white husband tolerating racist remarks from his friends. We will hold Dr. Laura's advertisers accountable and find out exactly where they stand.
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Drop DobbsHe can no longer use CNN as a platform to pursue his crusade against immigrantsFor years, Lou Dobbs has benefited enormously from the legitimacy of the CNN brand, which provides him with an unparalleled platform from which to mainstream hate speech and racially charged conspiracy theories normally relegated to Fox News and other conservative news outlets.
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