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    This letter from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is addressed to Fox News executives Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Suzanne Scott, and Jay Wallace. The letter expresses concern that Fox News personalities like Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham continue to promote the false claim that Donald Trump won the 2020 election, despite Fox News executives acknowledging the dangers of spreading such misinformation. The letter demands that Fox News hosts admit they were wrong to spread election conspiracy theories and cease promoting the "Big Lie" going forward, as continuing to do so could undermine democracy and encourage further political violence like the January 6th insurrection.

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    This letter from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is addressed to Fox News executives Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Suzanne Scott, and Jay Wallace. The letter expresses concern that Fox News personalities like Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham continue to promote the false claim that Donald Trump won the 2020 election, despite Fox News executives acknowledging the dangers of spreading such misinformation. The letter demands that Fox News hosts admit they were wrong to spread election conspiracy theories and cease promoting the "Big Lie" going forward, as continuing to do so could undermine democracy and encourage further political violence like the January 6th insurrection.

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    This letter from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is addressed to Fox News executives Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Suzanne Scott, and Jay Wallace. The letter expresses concern that Fox News personalities like Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham continue to promote the false claim that Donald Trump won the 2020 election, despite Fox News executives acknowledging the dangers of spreading such misinformation. The letter demands that Fox News hosts admit they were wrong to spread election conspiracy theories and cease promoting the "Big Lie" going forward, as continuing to do so could undermine democracy and encourage further political violence like the January 6th insurrection.

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    March 1, 2023

    Rupert Murdoch Suzanne Scott


    Chairman CEO
    Fox Corporation FOX News Media
    1211 6th Ave. 1211 6th Ave.
    New York, NY 10036 New York, NY 10036

    Lachlan K. Murdoch Jay Wallace


    Executive Chairman and CEO President and Executive Editor
    Fox Corporation FOX News Media
    1211 6th Ave. 1211 6th Ave.
    New York, NY 10036 New York, NY 10036

    Dear Mr. Rupert Murdoch et al: 

    As noted in your deposition released yesterday, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura
    Ingraham, and other Fox News personalities knowingly, repeatedly, and dangerously endorsed
    and promoted the Big Lie that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election. Though you
    have acknowledged your regret in allowing this grave propaganda to take place, your network
    hosts continue to promote, spew, and perpetuate election conspiracy theories to this day. 

    The leadership of your company was aware of the dangers of broadcasting these
    outlandish claims. By your own account, Donald Trump’s election lies were “damaging” and
    “really crazy stuff.” Despite that shocking admission, Fox News hosts have continued to peddle
    election denialism to the American people. 

    This sets a dangerous precedent that ignores basic journalistic fact-checking principles
    and public accountability. This is even more alarming after Speaker McCarthy is reportedly
    allowing Tucker Carlson to review highly sensitive security camera footage of the events
    surrounding the violent January 6 insurrection.  

    We demand that you direct Tucker Carlson and other hosts on your network to stop
    spreading false election narratives and admit on the air that they were wrong to engage in such
    negligent behavior. 

    As evidenced by the January 6 insurrection, spreading this false propaganda could not
    only embolden supporters of the Big Lie to engage in further acts of political violence, but also
    deeply and broadly weakens faith in our democracy and hurts our country in countless other
    ways.  
    Fox News executives and all other hosts on your network have a clear choice. You can
    continue a pattern of lying to your viewers and risking democracy or move beyond this
    damaging chapter in your company’s history by siding with the truth and reporting the facts. We
    ask that you make sure Fox News ceases disseminating the Big Lie and other election conspiracy
    theories on your network.  
     
    Sincerely,

     
    Charles E. Schumer Hakeem Jeffries
    Majority Leader Minority Leader
    United States Senate United States House of Representatives  

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