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FOX NEWS BOSS LACHLAN MURDOCH SUPPORTS TUCKER CARLSON’S MISINFORMATION AGAINST
THE COVID-19 VACCINES

Written by Eric Kleefeld

Published 05/19/21 4:58 PM EDT

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Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch has publicly endorsed a debunked conspiracy theory
spread by Fox News prime time host Tucker Carlson, who has claimed that
thousands of people died in connection with the COVID-19 vaccines.

Carlson has increasingly become the network’s top personality on TV and to push
its online content, and he has used the platform to undermine the public
vaccination campaign ever since last year. Other network figures have gotten
their shots — most notably Fox News founder and Lachlan’s father Rupert Murdoch
— while the network has continually taken pandemic health measures more
seriously for itself than for its audiences. (Carlson has still not disclosed
whether he has been vaccinated.)

For this latest example, Carlson has relied on a public system known as VAERS,
or the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, to which anybody can submit a
report of health events. False claims surrounding the unverified database had
been spreading for months online, from the likes of anti-vaccine conspiracy
theorist Robert Kennedy Jr., frequent Fox News guest Alex Berenson, and
prominent influencers in the far-right QAnon movement.

However, the system does not include any key context of what other factors might
have contributed to an individual’s negative health events, and because it is
publicly sourced it can include many errors. (For example, a report that a
2-year-old died after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine during clinical trials has
been removed from the VAERS system for being “completely made up” — as vaccine
trials for young children had not even begun yet when the report was filed.)

But when these problems were widely pointed out, Carlson only dug in further,
asking, “What exactly are the real numbers? How much harm have the COVID
vaccines caused?”

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Citation From the May 6, 2021, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight

In an interview with Business Insider, Lachlan Murdoch stood by Carlson’s
falsehoods:

> Lachlan called Carlson and some of his viewpoints, which he says caters to
> what many Americans are quietly thinking, “brave.” And when Carlson questioned
> the efficacy of vaccines for COVID-19 and cited the number of people who died
> after taking the vaccine, Lachlan came to his defense again.
> 
> “He basically just went into the CDC data, right?” Lachlan said.  “So there's
> nothing the CDC itself isn't saying.”

Business Insider noted that “Factcheck.org denounced Carlson's statement,
explaining that anyone can submit a report of an adverse side effect following
vaccination, without verification or proof that it was caused by the vaccine.”

FactCheck.org listed some examples, as well:

> Another report included in Carlson’s count was for a woman who was vaccinated
> on Jan. 9, had a car accident two weeks later, and died with a brain
> hemorrhage nine days after that.
> 
> Another report was for a 17-year-old who killed himself with a gun eight days
> after he was vaccinated.
> 
> This doesn’t mean that no deaths could be related to the vaccines. But these
> examples make it clear that “VAERS accepts all reports without judging whether
> the event was caused by the vaccine,” as the Department of Health and Human
> Services explains.

And while Lachlan Murdoch characterizes the VAERS reports as “CDC data,” a
disclaimer on the VAERS site actually makes clear: “The reports may contain
information that is incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental, or unverifiable” —
which, come to think of it, would be a better slogan for Fox News.


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