An expert on media issues warns that elections in two countries could be threatened in 2024 by Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch.
“Manipulative media are media organisations with an agenda. The best example of agenda-driven media is the Murdoch media. Murdoch outlets may claim to be producing “news”, but, like News Corp Australia did for the “No” campaign during the Voice referendum, during the U.S. and UK elections, they will be campaigning for the U.S. Republicans and the UK Conservative Party.
Manipulative media organisations like Murdoch’s have shown that not only do they intervene in democratic elections by campaigning for one side and attacking the other, but they will also manipulate information to suit their campaign.
During the Dominion voting machine defamation case which Fox News settled for an eye-watering US$787.5 million, the media company admitted it knew President Joe Biden did not steal the election, but broadcast this accusation anyway because their audience wanted them to. Murdoch, and other right-wing manipulative media, have succeeded in convincing a third of Americans that Biden stole the 2020 election, a false belief that will no doubt influence this year’s Election.” [READ MORE]