Fox News Suddenly Worried About Foreign Propaganda

This is pretty rich given who controls Fox “news.”

Following the news that the House just passed a bill which could lead to a nation-wide ban of the popular app TikTok if the parent company doesn't sell the business within five months, which Biden said he will sign if it passes the Senate, and that Trump flip-flopped on after cozying up to a billionaire donor with a stake in TikTok, Fox's Harris Faulkner and Steve Hilton compared TikTok to a media company such as their own, and whined about the amount of foreign “propaganda” being shown on the social media network.

No mention, of course on Trump backtracking, or that his former Treasury Sec. Steve Mnuchin is interested in buying the company. I guess foreign propaganda is a-okay in Fox-land as long as it's coming from an Aussie like Rupert Murdoch, or Russia, or right-wing fascists in the United States for that matter, as long as it's not China.

FAULKNER: And I want to add that Chairman Gallagher also told me yesterday that this is not a ban. He was emphatic about that. He said, look, the parent company of TikTok, ByteDance, can sell. There are a lot of buyers out there right now.

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