NaNaNaNaMar 6, 2023
Mark Ruffalo

A “news” agency pushing the “big lie” knowing that it was false. You got to feel bad for the people who get their information from them. What else are they being lied to about? How many other daily lies are they being innocently fed? It’s a huge betrayal to them & the rest of us.

“Murdoch said Fox News hosts Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro all endorsed the notion that the election was stolen.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/murdoch-dominion-lawsuit-election-lies_n_63fd2a38e4b0db7a1f675085

Rupert Murdoch Said Fox News Hosts ‘Endorsed’ Election Lies In Dominion Deposition

“I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it in hindsight,” the News Corp chairman said under oath.

HuffPost
Feb 28, 2023 at 3:18pmWeb
Show threadGwizFeb 28, 2023
@MarkRuffalo the people that go to Fox News want to be lied to, it’s like a warm blanket I think.
Show threadMinisterofimpedimentsFeb 28, 2023

@gwiz @MarkRuffalo basically this. There is the assumption that these are people being led astray and if they only could get access to the truth they would see the light.

It’s vastly more likely that it’s an already held belief(s) and they simply are going to these places to have their beliefs validated. They don’t want facts…they want reinforcement of ideas they already hold.

Sometimes people do have to be responsible for their own actions/ideas. Fox is largely guilty of pandering for profit

Show threadGwizFeb 28, 2023
@ministerofimpediments @MarkRuffalo they only fully pushed the big lie because they were losing viewers to the even-worse propagandists at OANN and Newsmax. Once Fox lied even harder they got their viewers back.
Show threadMushifootFeb 28, 2023

@gwiz @MarkRuffalo There was a famous saying inside Fox News when Ailes launched the network in 1996 – “People don’t want to be informed, they want to feel informed.”

https://www.marketplace.org/2017/05/18/roger-ailes-transformed-american-politics-contact-sport/amp/

Roger Ailes transformed 'American politics into a contact sport'

Gabriel Sherman of New York Magazine says Fox News trying to find its identity.

Marketplace
Show threadBen, Writin’ MoviesFeb 28, 2023
@MarkRuffalo The question that occurs to me is why isn't this illegal? We have legislation in place to prevent misinformation being broadcast online here in the UK (although enforcement is an obvious issue) so why shouldn't traditional broadcast media be included? If the BBC were found to be doing this, they'd be shut down in a week.
Show threadWestonFeb 28, 2023
@benjamincox @MarkRuffalo There is, but unfortunately it will be litigated in mostly (relatively small) civil suits that they can just pay away... they need to lose their press access.
Show threadGen X-WingFeb 28, 2023
@benjamincox @MarkRuffalo Because Murdoch’s pals are in charge. Fox News is GOP’s propaganda arm.
Show threadMattFeb 28, 2023
@benjamincox @MarkRuffalo The 1st Amendment protects speech, even lies. But Fox may soon at least pay for it
Show threadJustin FitzsimmonsFeb 28, 2023
@benjamincox @MarkRuffalo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz20lu2AM2k
Star Wars Episode 1 - "I will make it legal"

YouTube
Show threadBosque BillFeb 28, 2023
@MarkRuffalo Yet how are those being lied to going to find out? The liars won't tell their viewers they lied and the viewers are not going to go to any other source for news. Ignorance is bliss.
Show threadGwizFeb 28, 2023
@bosquebill @MarkRuffalo I expect they will include a cleverly-worded mea culpa very briefly in the “news” portion of their programming (if they lose against Dominion). Then their main content will continue on as usual.
Show threadAsbjørn UlsbergMar 1, 2023
@bosquebill @MarkRuffalo A court may rule that Fox News must inform its viewers that they lied. Let’s hope that happens.
Show threadHoward ShermanFeb 28, 2023
@MarkRuffalo Another way to look at it is that they are in the echo chamber they want to be in.
Show threadPort City StudiosFeb 28, 2023
@MarkRuffalo I can remember when Maria Bartiromo covered the stock market for a cable business channel and was interesting and highly competent. And suddenly she’s on Fox and…
Show threadAlexandre ChailleuxFeb 28, 2023
@MarkRuffalo Popcorn time. I hope you will make a movie from this.
Show threadSteven HiltonFeb 28, 2023
@MarkRuffalo Fox is not a news organization. They should all have their press credentials revoked.
Show threadBytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱Feb 28, 2023
@MarkRuffalo Strange (not strange) that he didn't mention Tucker Carlson. Or that he (and/or the management) allegedly instructed them to push The Lie because not to do that would kill ratings.
Show threadLori A W IFeb 28, 2023
@MarkRuffalo: You're right. It's yellow journalism at best and fiction at its worst. A disservice to all readers.
Show threadKelly McCubbinFeb 28, 2023
@MarkRuffalo
I despair at how emboldened they will become one they realize that there are no significant consequences to these actions? It feels very helpless.
Show threadTheRealCiceroFeb 28, 2023

@MarkRuffalo Their slogan should be:

Fox News - We leave you dumber

Show threadBuster McNuttFeb 28, 2023
@MarkRuffalo
Show threadWillemFeb 28, 2023
@MarkRuffalo I do feel bad a little bit.
Show threadDoug Baker - Elbows Up! 🇨🇦Feb 28, 2023
@MarkRuffalo Can't wait for the court damages assessment.
Show threadWalter RheinFeb 28, 2023
@MarkRuffalo for me the worst part is that there aren't likely to be any repercussions. We know this is happening. Why can't we make it stop?
Show threadSean GFeb 28, 2023
@MarkRuffalo Well and he thinks he can just do whatever he wants as long as he “apologizes” for it later.
Show threadChrisUFeb 28, 2023

@MarkRuffalo

Do not feel bad for them, those who get their “information “ from Fox, are complicit co-conspirators and frankly beyond redemption

Show threadMugsysRapSheet Blog ☑️Feb 28, 2023
@MarkRuffalo The painful irony is that even this admission of lying will be enough to convince the True Believers that they were deceived. 😞
Show threadbouriquetFeb 28, 2023

@MarkRuffalo Notice that he delicately called them “commentators” not reporters.
That relegates their words as editorial comment (opinions) rather than reporting news (aka facts).

Can we file suit to change the name of the organization to “Fox Opinions” and take away the “News” part?

Show threadBeatriceFeb 28, 2023
@MarkRuffalo my Father-in-Law watches this shit endlessly and it drives me insane. His kid is non-binary and married to me, a transwoman, who he treats very well; and yet he will spew absolute dogshit about immigrants, thinks Covid was a lie, and that Trump won in 2020. He sits in a literal mansion, quivering in fear and anger because these chucklefucks tell him, a rich white man, that he is the real threatened minority in America.
Show threadfulanigirl has movedFeb 28, 2023
@MarkRuffalo You don't have to feel bad for them.
Show threadPatty KimuraFeb 28, 2023
@MarkRuffalo Murdoch says he was aware his star anchors deliberately lied and deceived their viewers pretending those lies were "fair and balanced" "news".
Show threadBethbyFeb 28, 2023
@MarkRuffalo you ask the right questions
Show threadMercyJMar 1, 2023
@MarkRuffalo may F news be sued into bankruptcy.
Show threadDoug Baker - Elbows Up! 🇨🇦Mar 2, 2023
@MarkRuffalo How do you feed a lie innocently, Mark?
Show threadTed_CvilleMar 3, 2023
@MarkRuffalo Fox is not, and never had been, news.
Show threadSamhain NightMar 3, 2023
@MarkRuffalo They lie about everything on Faux. I’d be surprised if their weather forecasts were true.
Show threadSean KleefeldMar 3, 2023
@samhainnight It occurred to me a couple years ago that they (or someone like them) could start to 'weaponize' weather forecasts. Like, they predict massive, flood-inducing thunderstorms on election day to dissuade people from going to the polls. And when said storm doesn't happen? Nothing -- who holds weathermen accountable for bad predictions? Kind of surprised we haven't seen that happen yet frankly.
Show threadSamhain NightMar 3, 2023

@SKleefeld YOU PUT THAT GENIE BACK IN THAT BOTTLE RIGHT NOW!!!

… oh god, it’s too late, isn’t it…

Show threadSean KleefeldMar 3, 2023
@samhainnight I'm not THAT politically smart -- someone more corrupt than me thought of it YEARS ago. The thing is that it'd have to be local, and the odds of a local investigative team finding and tracking that are minimal. If the weatherman only "screwed up" a handful of key days every year or kept predictions intense but still reasonably plausible, it'd be virtually impossible to detect ill intent.
Show threadSean KleefeldMar 3, 2023
@samhainnight Frankly, it's one of the reasons I got a small weather station for my back yard and the weather forecasts I look at tend to be national. (Not that you *couldn't* corrupt national weather reporting, but it strikes me as less likely to pull off successfully.)
Show threadSamhain NightMar 3, 2023
@SKleefeld I use Weather Underground (the weather service not the political movement) because no weather station covers my area. The closest the ever get is 2 hours inland and over a mountain range, so it’s no help at all.
Show threadNarMar 3, 2023
@MarkRuffalo I don't feel bad for them. They know they can easily watch other news and hear all opinions. They refuse.
Show threadAttorney WondererMar 3, 2023
@MarkRuffalo I feel bad for the rest of us; they’re destroying our democracy.
Show threadJuliaMar 3, 2023
@MarkRuffalo Why is Tucks not mentioned in any of this reporting? Surely he lied as much as the rest of them.
Show threadTheocracidalMar 3, 2023
@MarkRuffalo "in hindsight" trans. "Now that we got caught"
Show threadAphrodite (recharging)Mar 3, 2023

@MarkRuffalo

that quote is an amazingly evasive response.

great way to elide that he too wanted biden to lose.

Show threadFaceEatingKoalaMar 8, 2023
@MarkRuffalo Jon Stewart is covering this so well. At what point do we act on the fact that FOXNews are bad faith actors? That they lie to pacify their audience, and sends the extremists in the right into violent frenzies. They were the bullhorn that called insurrectionists to the Capitol.