Fox News Mocked For Ad Claiming It's The 'Most Trusted' TV News Network
Fox News apparently decided to make a statement on the eve of its defamation suit with Dominion Voting Systems ― and it went to The New York Times to do it.
On Monday, the network paid for a full-page ad in the paper declaring itself the most trusted TV network in news, citing stats based on a recent YouGov poll.
HuffPost has reached out to YouGov for a full copy of the poll data, but in the meantime, it’s worth noting that evidence shows many of the network’s hosts and executives promoted false theories about supposed election fraud that they themselves did not believe ― so perhaps not all of that viewer trust is necessarily warranted.
Fox News full page ad in NYT this AM on public trust as it seeks to settle ten-figure defamation suit on eve of jury trial pic.twitter.com/MyhbgbSbrg
— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) April 17, 2023
Many Twitter users were sceptical about the “most trusted” claim, as well as the ad’s timing.
Even this Fox News ad is dishonest and deceptive. You can’t make this stuff up. Read the fine print…
— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) April 17, 2023
Q1: which news sources do you follow
Q2: *of those sources* which do you trust most…
So all this actually shows is that Fox News viewers live in an information bubble. https://t.co/RxUBfqvbn3
Doesn’t this just mean “people who watch us definitely believed our lies about Dominion and still do to this day”? https://t.co/4YMwjaB94n
— AMANDA TRAP HOUSE (@noturtlesoup17) April 17, 2023
I believe this is called jury tampering. https://t.co/AUovmICN2c
— Ron Filipkowski ???????? (@RonFilipkowski) April 17, 2023
Network who admits they lie assures us they're the most trusted network.
— Rachel Vindman ???? (@natsechobbyist) April 17, 2023
Oh, okay. https://t.co/9z9DLb33HG
This is basically just a reflection of the fact that left-leaning audiences get their news from a variety of mainstream sources, while pretty much everyone on the right watches Fox. https://t.co/qVIzL3jqKJ
— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) April 17, 2023
Fox and Murdoch showing us why we need to reinvigorate the FCC as a media regulator — a regulator that actually enforces transparency instead of letting Fox lie with abandon to enrich a billionaire without viewers knowing what the goal is. https://t.co/IUeFHEP15f
— Eric Blair???????? (@protecttruth_) April 17, 2023
LOL their viewers have no idea what has already been shown in the Dominion case filings about how much you can trust them. https://t.co/WB4A4uxWTT
— LauraWalkerKC@counter.social (@LauraWalkerKC) April 17, 2023
Fox News paid the NYT millions to brag that most Americans think they’re full of shit. https://t.co/5GquWK37Gt
— Brett Erlich (@bretterlich) April 17, 2023