He was citing an altered document that first appeared on 4chan and had been widely debunked before the segment aired.Īn analysis last year by The New York Times found that Carlson had repeatedly promoted a racist conspiracy theory known as the Great Replacement Theory, which posits that Jews and Democrats encourage immigration, feminism and gender nonconformity as part of a conspiracy to wipe out the white race. Just that it’s on the air, it’s ambient and it’s on in so many public spaces means that anything they platform has a wider reach than any of the more committed hyper-partisan sites.”Ī spokesperson for Fox News declined to comment beyond the statement the company issued announcing Carlson’s departure and thanking him for his work there.Ĭarlson used his platform at Fox News to spread information that had been widely discredited.Ĭarlson featured a segment this month claiming that Ukrainian casualties in the Russian invasion were widely underreported. “It let other people know that it’s OK to talk about these kinds of things in the language that they use.
“Once a story reached Tucker Carlson, it was at the apex of conservative media, and Fox News is the voice of authority in conservative media,” said Robert Faris, a senior researcher at Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, who studies networked digital technologies and media. Bannon said Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, the father and son who oversee Fox News’ parent company, fired Carlson to keep “those ideas seeping into a more mainstream audience.” Steve Bannon, a former top Trump aide who appeared Tuesday on Kirk’s show, said the “power of Tucker Carlson” was his ability to distill and package fringe political ideas to a new audience. He would use his platform to attack institutions and people, unleashing a troll army drawn from the very ranks of the fringe right-wingers and 4Chan users who loved him - something the authors of this article have experienced on several occasions. But Tucker would have them on to say things that you won’t hear anywhere on American TV.”Ĭarlson’s relationship to fringe figures on the far right was, in some ways, symbiotic. “There are other people, and nobody would dare let them on any other Fox show. “He was basically the only person on Fox who would dare to have me on, and I’m not the only case,” Beattie said. 6 attack on the Capitol, said Monday on a web show hosted by Turning Point USA President Charlie Kirk. Our briefings are original OHPI content originally published on this site.“He amplified reporting more than anyone else,” Darren Beattie, a blogger and purveyor of conspiracy theories related to the Jan.
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