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In the bizarro world of MAGA politics, up is down, black is white, and apparently, fact-checking is now a form of election interference

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No ABC Did Not Engage In Election Interference In [Checks Notes] Fact Checking Donald Trump from the fact-check:-this-is-all-stupid dept.

The FCC Chair , Jessica Rosenworcel , had to put out a statement on the very basics of the First Amendment : “The FCC does not revoke licenses for broadcast stations simply because a political candidate disagrees with coverage or dislikes it.

There has been an ongoing effort to pull the license from a Fox affiliate in Philadelphia , based specifically on Fox News admitting that it broadcast false information about the 2020 election.

Ted Cruz went on a rant about how “the job of policing so-called misinformation’s belongs to the American people—not the federal government”.

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