How AT&T helped build far-right One America News
A REUTERS SPECIAL REPORT
As it lauded former President Donald Trump and spread his unfounded claims of election fraud, One America News Network saw its viewership jump. Reuters has uncovered how America’s telecom giant nurtured the news channel now at the center of a bitter national divide over politics and truth.
First of two stories
One America News, the far-right network whose fortunes and viewership rose amid the triumph and tumult of the Trump administration, has flourished with support from a surprising source: AT&T Inc, the world's largest communications company.
A Reuters review of court records shows the role AT&T played in creating and funding OAN, a network that continues to spread conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and the COVID-19 pandemic.
OAN founder and chief executive Robert Herring Sr has testified that the inspiration to launch OAN in 2013 came from AT&T executives.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-oneamerica-att/
Now for anyone that has a service with AT&T....
And just think this is the same organization OAN that said that covid was a basically a lie, so to take this one step further AT& T helped perpetuate the lie and people died....
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