Is there any news on the pillow guys movie? Did it air yet? Did he have all the proof the election was stolen?
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The movie, “Absolute Proof,” was uploaded to YouTube several times by early afternoon on Friday, but the Google-owned video site said it has been just as quickly taking it down. “Per our presidential election integrity policy, we remove content uploaded after the safe harbor deadline that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election,” a spokesperson told Fast Company . “We removed this video and its reuploads in accordance with this policy.”
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Dixie Chicks were long before Kapernick.
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It was probably the only way they could prevent him from saying more stuff that will be used in the case against them.
Honestly I’m not feeling the shadenfreude over the slow demise of Fox knowing its viewers are going to a worse (how is this possible?) source like newsmax or OANN.
Seems like a serious net negative for US democracy.
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Nope… The other 2 ain’t on every other place you visit in the US, yet. 
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Apparently Newsmax is also liberal now. That’s what my Q Facebook friend told me.
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Doctors waiting rooms etc aren’t showing Newsmax or OANN. And it’s not the demise of Fox. I think editorially there is a movement within Fox to shift away from the nutjobs. Their demographics advertising wise are awful longterm and they know it.
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Listen man WAAF, so take the small joys where you can. Seeing evil people or organizations get got by the movement they’ve been flaming for years or decades is hilarious.
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I think OAN showed the pillow guy movie. He bought time. Not sure that insulated them from liability.
It’s probably to avoid future liability from him continuing to do it.
SCOTUS rules in favor of FOX 5-4
It becomes an episode of 5-4 podcast.
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98% of fox news viewers are permanently gone anyways.
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He had me until they tried to pass off Whack A Clown as Whack A Mole.
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So what do we think about OAN airing Lindell’s “documentary”? Is the fact that they just made a disclaimer at the beginning enough? Based on what you’ve said so far, OAN just fucked themselves further.
I honestly don’t know. I don’t think the disclaimer protects them all that much. However, the fact that they sold the air time to Lindell rather than running it as part of their normal programming could protect them.
For defamation, the defendant has to make a false statement. That can be satisfied by republishing the statement (which includes airing it on your channel). I’m not sure though if OAN is making a statement when they sell their airtime and have no control over what Lindell says.
So if they have Lindell on for free that’s bad. But if they have him on for profit, then that’s fine?
It’s not like they didn’t know what he was going to say.
Surely, networks have at least some control over what those who buy airtime say. I’m sure I’ve heard instances of networks refusing to run certain ads for content-based reasons.
Possibly. I’d say it’s similar to if you own conference hall. If you use it to hold a conference and invite people and let them make false claims, you’re likely liable. But, if you just rent it out and have no other involvement, you would not be. That said, I don’t know if a similar standard applies to TV networks.
As to the ad example, I don’t think the networks would be liable for false claims made in the ad, even if they could have chosen not to run them.