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☆ Elon Musk says Tucker Carlson will be subject to Twitter's fact-checking force, Community Notes. This might be a problem for a TV host whose record on Snopes isn't exactly the cleanest.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Hannah Getahun | Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Elon Musk responded by saying anything misleading would be flagged by community notes. Tucker Carlson is moving his show from a traditional broadcasting outlet to Twitter where he will be subject to the social media platform's fact-checking force, Community Notes. The TV host's history of making untrue statements is well documented on third-party fact-checking sites such as Politifact and Snopes. Not every piece of misleading or false information on the platform is publicly marked by a Community Note. When enough people from different points of view rate a note as "helpful," the Community Note will appear, according to Twitter.

☆ Tucker Carlson just moved from one mercurial media boss to another
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Tucker Carlson announced Tuesday his plans to bring his prime time show to Twitter. Tucker Carlson is picking up his megaphone again, but it's unclear how much he'll poke the bear on Twitter under Elon Musk. "I'm stuck with Fox," a text from Carlson to Brett Baier reads. Meanwhile, Carlson's former boss, Rupert Murdoch, reportedly made the decision to oust him, according to the Los Angeles Times. Musk has said that Carlson would be considered a content creator and that he had no hand in Carlson's production deal.

☆ Tucker Carlson is popular with the boomers, but at Twitter he will be courting a different — and much younger — audience
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The median age of Twitter users is much younger than that of Fox News viewers, reports show. Tucker Carlson is officially moving to Twitter, but whether his loyal — and older — Fox fans will follow is yet to be seen. In a video, Carlson touted the social media platform to his seven million followers as a place of "free speech." Back at Fox News, the median age of an average viewer was 65, according to Nielsen ratings. A Pew Research study shows a stark difference: The median age of a Twitter user is 40.

☆ Tucker Carlson's new Twitter show could spell doom for Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

For Twitter owner Elon Musk, a Fox News-style show on Twitter could cause problems. Tucker Carlson's sudden exit from Fox News last month has fueled weeks of speculation about his next move. Particularly as Musk said "Twitter has not signed a deal of any kind whatsoever" with Carlson. And if Carlson is on board, that paves the way for other, equally provocative creators to go big on Twitter. Musk faces a real risk that a growing number of Twitter users will feel the same way.

☆ Tucker Carlson told us he's running for president in 2024. Then he said he was joking. Then he said he's 'fundamentally a dick.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

In late-night texts, Tucker Carlson told Insider he was about to launch a 2024 bid before saying it was a joke. On Fox, Carlson stoked hatred of undocumented immigrants, glossed over the violence of the January 6 insurrection, and criticized US support for Ukraine. By moving his show to Twitter, Carlson reportedly stands to lose millions in severance for breaking a non-compete clause in his contract. And despite airing private misgivings about Trump, Carlson has already been wielding power from behind the scenes in ways that further blur the line between his roles as commentator and political heavyweight. After Carlson revised his initial claim that he'd be announcing a presidential run in New Hampshire on Friday, Insider asked whether he'd ruled out a 2024 run for the White House.

☆ Tucker Carlson launching new show on Twitter after Fox News departure
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailTucker Carlson launching new show on Twitter after Fox News departureDylan Byers, Puck senior correspondent, joins 'Last Call' to discuss former Fox News Anchor Tucker Carlson's announcement he is launching a new show on Twitter.

Tucker Carlson is back – on Twitter. Carlson was abruptly fired from his prime time post at Fox News weeks ago, shortly after the network paid a settlement to Dominion Voting Systems in its defamation lawsuit. In a three minute video posted to Twitter, Carlson berated the mainstream media allegedly lying to the public. Carlson added that Twitter "is not a partisan site." That Monday Fox said in a statement "FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways.

☆ Mitch McConnell says Tucker Carlson's following in the GOP is 'disturbing'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mitch McConnell recently offered his most blunt remarks yet on former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. "At the risk of patting myself on the back, not many Republicans went after Tucker Carlson, but I did," McConnell told Bloomberg. "I think Carlson had developed a coterie of followers in the Congress as well as in the country that I found disturbing." "I do think the party of Ronald Reagan is coming back here," said McConnell. Despite McConnell's comments, Carlson continues to enjoy warm relations with many in the Republican Party.

☆ Fox posts quarterly loss on Dominion settlement despite boost from Super Bowl, Tubi
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Lillian Rizzo | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The News Corporation headquarters, which is also home to Fox News, stands in Manhattan on April 18, 2023 in New York City. Fox Corp. reported a quarterly net loss on Tuesday due to the costs related to its settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, despite revenue that was lifted by the Super Bowl and its fast ad-supported streaming service Tubi. Fox notched $4.08 billion in quarterly revenue, up 18% from the same period last year. The company also saw a boost after airing more NFL games during the season and from increased viewership for Tubi. Fox is the top-rated cable news channel, even as prime-time ratings in Carlson's slot have slid since his departure.

☆ Lachlan Murdoch says there's 'no change to our programming strategy' at Fox News in wake of Tucker Carlson's firing
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Lachlan Murdoch told analysts Tuesday that "programming strategy" at Fox News wouldn't change. Murdoch, CEO of Fox Corp. and Rupert Murdoch's son, was involved in Tucker Carlson's firing, Insider reported. Media scion and Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch told analysts on Tuesday that it would be programming as usual in the wake of host Tucker Carlson's abrupt firing from the network. Murdoch, the son of News Corp. mogul Rupert Murdoch, said on the company's earnings call that "there's no change to our programming strategy at Fox News. Representatives for Fox Corp. and Fox News did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment ahead of publication.

The decision to dismiss the lawsuit does not mean she has settled the case, her lawyer, Tanvir Rahman, said Monday. Prior to that, she was a producer for Fox host Maria Bartiromo's Sunday morning show. Grossberg also said Fox intimidated her and fraudulently induced her to make false statements in her September 2022 deposition in the Dominion lawsuit. On April 18 Fox agreed to pay Dominion $787.5 million to settle the voting-technology company's defamation lawsuit in Delaware. Grossberg could have been a key witness had the Dominion case gone to trial.

☆ Tucker Carlson discussed working together with Elon Musk after Fox firing, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Aaron Mcdade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Tucker Carlson is talking with right-wing outlets about his next career move, according to Axios. He has reportedly talked to Newsmax and Rumble while his lawyers work to break his Fox contract. Axios also reported that Carlson has met with Twitter CEO Elon Musk, who has previously expressed support for right-wing views. Tucker Carlson has had at least one conversation with Elon Musk about working together, according to a new report from Axios. Social media extremism experts previously told Insider that Musk often uses his Twitter to amplify right-wing messaging.

☆ Fox News calls on Dominion Voting to investigate the 'inexcusable' Tucker Carlson message leaks
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Isobel Van Hagen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Fox News sent letters to Dominion Voting Systems asking they probe Tucker Carlson message leaks. Fox News' legal team sent letters to Dominion Voting Systems calling on the company to probe whether they leaked internal messages from Tucker Carlson. The letters to the electronic voting company came after multiple news outlets published controversial messages made by Carlson in private. "Leaked material is a cornerstone of journalism"A screenshot from the video of Tucker Carlson asking his makeup artist what women do in the bathroom. "Reporting on newsworthy leaked material is a cornerstone of journalism," Media Matters President Angelo Carusone said in a statement.

☆ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson have linked mass shootings to antidepressants. This is what the evidence says.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

After a spate of mass shootings in the US, right-wing figures have suggested a link to antidepressants. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson have claimed several mass shooters took SSRIs, suggesting they are to blame. Greene has previously made similar comments linking antidepressants to mass shootings, as has former Fox News host Tucker Carlson"A lot of young men in America are going nuts. However, Carlson and Greene's theories fail to note that many mass shooters had no history of taking psychiatric medication. As the gun control debate continues, Democrats and Republicans have drawn up distinctly different plans to prevent future mass shootings.

☆ Silicon Valley's Hail Mary moment
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Linette Lopez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Silicon Valley has entered the Hail Mary phase of its business cycle — a desertic part of a tech-industry downturn where desperation can turn into recklessness. Don't fear the robotsTo understand the Hail Mary moment, it's important to understand the actual capabilities of technology these tech titans are touting. Again, what Musk is describing is AI general intelligence — something much more advanced than the generative AI OpenAI is building on at the moment. During the pandemic when governments were handing out cash and people were stuck at home, the world bought everything Silicon Valley was selling. But those are exactly the types of workers getting laid off in Silicon Valley right now.

☆ Tucker Carlson is mobilizing allies to attack Fox News as he eyes launch of new media empire, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Tucker Carlson remains influential in conservative media despite being fired from Fox News in April. Sources close to Carlson told Axios that the political commentator is looking to get out of his contract with the network. As a result, they say, his team is "preparing for war" with Fox News, Axios reports. Rival outlets — including right-wing Rumble and Newsmax — have reached out offering to pay Carlson more than his Fox contract, Axios reported. Now, sources say Carlson's right-wing allies are rallying around him in the aftermath of the abrupt firing.

☆ A 'pay or play' clause in Tucker Carlson's contract with Fox News could keep him off the air through the 2024 election: report
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Tucker Carlson was abruptly fired from Fox News on April 24 with little explanation. The popular conservative news host seeks to return on the air soon, The New York Times reported. However, Carlson's contract with Fox could restrict him from doing so until 2025, per NYT. Carlson was abruptly fired from Fox News on April 24 after the company's $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems. One person with knowledge of Carlson's deal told the newspaper the former host's contract contains a "pay or play" clause that restricts network hosts from working with competitors for as long as they are under contract.

May 5 (Reuters) - Fox News on Friday asked lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems to investigate whether they leaked controversial internal messages from ousted Fox host Tucker Carlson that were provided in evidence for their recent defamation lawsuit. The requests, which were made in letters released by Fox, came after multiple news outlets published racist and sexist remarks by Carlson contained in leaked internal messages and recordings. Fox News and its parent company Fox Corp (FOXA.O) said those were given to Dominion as part of the lawsuit, which claimed Fox defamed Dominion by airing false election-rigging claims. Dominion denied the materials came from the company or any of its lawyers. Media outlets including the New York Times reported that the decision came after Fox's board saw Carlson's internal messages.

☆ DeSantis heaps compliments on 'Florida resident' Tucker Carlson, calling the ousted Fox host 'talented' and 'funny'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Tucker Carlson was abruptly fired from Fox News on April 24. Ron DeSantis praised Tucker Carlson and his show at Fox News while criticizing the media company's abrupt decision to fire the popular conservative news host. I think it's terrible that he was fired," the Florida governor said. He also expressed pride to have Carlson as a fellow Florida resident, although he joked that Carlson might not love summers in the Sunshine State. "We're proud because he's a Florida resident, and he loves the state of Florida," he said.

☆ Fox News' lawyers send cease and desist to stop Media Matters from publishing leaked videos of Tucker Carlson's comments
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Fox News' lawyers sent a cease and desist letter to Media Matters over coverage of Tucker Carlson. The letter demands Media Matters stop publishing behind-the-scenes videos of Carlson. Media Matters has shared videos of Carlson making sexist remarks and complaining about Fox. Fox News' lawyers have sent a cease and desist letter to Media Matters for America over its publication of leaked videos showing Tucker Carlson making offensive and embarrassing comments off-air. In other videos, Carlson complained that "nobody watches Fox Nation because the site sucks" and said he'd rather put his interviews on YouTube than on Fox's site.

☆ If Fox News was so worried about Tucker Carlson's racist text, they shouldn't have given him a platform for his 'toxic bigotry', say critics
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Fox News sources told the NYT that a text message led to host Tucker Carlson's firing. But critics say the host embraced white nationalist views on his show for several years. In the text, Carlson made inflammatory remarks about violence and race. Critics of Fox News, however, say the remarks should not have come as a surprise to the network. And another likely factor in Carlson's exit was appeasing Fox shareholders in the wake of the $787.5 million settlement Fox News reached with Dominion.

☆ Tucker Carlson helped broker the deal that made Kevin McCarthy House speaker after 14 failed votes, text messages show
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Tucker Carlson won concessions from Kevin McCarthy in a deal that made him House speaker, per his texts. McCarthy needed 218 votes to win his bid to become House speaker, giving him a small margin of error. The result was 14 rounds of votes that failed to produce a House speaker, making it the most contested speaker election in more than 150 years. Grossberg discussed some of the conversations between her and Carlson regarding McCarthy's House Speaker election in an interview with CNN on Tuesday night. On January 7, the House held its 15th vote for House Speaker.

☆ Leaked video shows Tucker Carlson jokingly quoting the infamous 'we'll do it live' outburst from Bill O'Reilly, his predecessor that was also pushed out of Fox News
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A leaked video shows Tucker Carlson laughing and shouting an infamous Bill O'Reilly quote. The clip of O'Reilly having an outburst in an "Inside Edition" outtake went viral in 2008. Leaked video shows former Fox News host Tucker Carlson quoting an infamous behind-the-scenes outburst by Bill O'Reilly, another former host for the network who held Carlson's old time slot and was also pushed out. The video, obtained by the left-leaning nonprofit Media Matters, shows Carlson on the set of "Tucker Carlson Today," his show that streamed online at Fox Nation. The phrase became well known in 2008 when an outtake from O'Reilly's time at "Inside Edition" in the early 1990s surfaced online and went viral.

☆ Text shows Tucker Carlson describing how a 'group of Trump guys' jumped an 'Antifa kid,' saying, 'It's not how white men fight'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A text shows Tucker Carlson describing a video of a "group of Trump guys" jumping an "Antifa kid." In the leaked text, obtained by The New York Times, he said, "It's not how white men fight." A leaked text message from the settled Dominion defamation lawsuit shows Tucker Carlson describing a video of the violent assault of an "Antifa kid" being jumped by a "group of Trump guys," with the former Fox News superstar saying that "it's not how white men fight." According to the Times, Carlson sent the text to one of his producers the day after the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. It's not how white men fight.

☆ Sen. JD Vance defends Tucker Carlson over leaked 'how white men fight' text: 'He says far more controversial things publicly every single day'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Tucker Carlson bemoaned that a group of Trump supporters didn't fight like "white men," per a leaked text. "By the way, I don't think that's why he was fired," the Ohio senator added. "I don't know why that would justify somebody getting fired, especially when you're talking about a private text message." "I'm highly skeptical that text message caused them to fire Tucker Carlson. "Once a week, I worry that something terrible will happen to Tucker Carlson," said Vance.

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