Trump does... Is Fox News the real fake media? More often than not I’d say yes and Fox News might agree with me!

Fox wins McDougal case, argues no one takes Tucker Carlson seriously - Business InsiderA federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against Fox News after lawyers for the network argued that no "reasonable viewer" would take the network's primetime star Tucker Carlson seriously. The former Playboy model Karen McDougal filed a defamation suit against Fox alleging that Carlson slandered her during a December 2018 episode of his show, "Tucker Carlson Tonight."apple.news

Fox News actually argued that? Wow. I mean, I don’t take him seriously, but isn’t he there because some people do?

Far too many do, I’d say 99% of his viewers.

So does this imply that 99% of his viewers are not reasonable people? And is this not exactly what the network intends?

I don’t know about unreasonable but they certainly believe a lot of nonsense. They’ve been watching a distorted version of reality. More distorted than the average news media.

I would say “intentionally distorted “, as in propaganda.

I think social media is an even bigger problem than Fox News. It has people’s bubbles or echo chambers so narrowed and full of stuff that is just plain wrong that there can no longer be a reasoned discussion of the ‘facts’ because there is no agreement of what they are.

I agree. How do we return to, or create, a fact-centric society? I fear for the survival of our species.

We start by tightening up laws for social media.