Page 8 - Fox S News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Fox's tucker carlson is trying to distance himself from a white supremacist conspiracy theory he's peddled on his show for years. >> you've heard a lot about the great replacement theory recently. it's everywhere in the last two days. we're still not sure exactly what it is. >> the issue arose in the wake of last weekend's deadly mass shooting in buffalo, new york, because of a 180-page racist rant posted by the alleged gunman. it's nonsense peddled by white supremacists on the internet. carlson has mainstreamed the garbage. while tucker now claims he has no idea what it is, which is not, of c...

Just move past it. it's not something his audience is eager to hear, that he's retreating from something he said to them. nuance and context and texture is not what he's not only known for or what he's rewarded to by his viewers, and if in some ways by the network. he has to walk a line there. is there any public accounting for what he knew and what he did during this most ominous period that he sort of anticipated, the worried worries that you alluded to, the pressure he exerted, he thought, privately through texts to then-president's chief of staff saying, hey, the president really has to be...

>> what's fascinating, and you know this far better than me, this is your media which is massively broad. there was so much focus afterward on facebook, on right wing outlooks. the big lie and this information including sean hannity amplifying that big lie. and when we look at this as a broader topic of the, quote, media and the impact of something like a podcast that maybe doesn't get as much attention, i think it raises the question of whether we're doomed to our echo chambers. as you pointed out, sean hannity and his audience probably didn't want to hear him talk about these texts. >> one o...

It's both harder to monitor and something that people who aren't tuned in to it are less likely to be aware of. and, yes, the social media platforms played a huge role in what happened january 6 and in the conspiracy theory propagating that happened before and after, and at the same time, you know, a lot of the content that is disseminated, disinformation, the misinformation that is disseminated and that's most harmful comes from those who give it some kind of credence or have at least a foot or is adjacent to more conventional media. so our figures on fox or frequent faces on fox or newsmax t...

Kanye West and Julia Fox may be having trouble keeping their long-distance relationship alive.