Promos for Tucker Carlson’s Factually Challenged January 6 Show Are Flourishing on Social Media

Roughly a year ago, tech companies were gearing up for the 2020 election, rolling out changes designed to make their platforms behave less like chaos agents. Many of those changes targeted misinformation, including affixing fact-checking labels to false or misleading posts. Countless posts by Donald Trump received such warning labels before his tweets provoking violence—days after the deadly Capitol attack—got him permanently banned from Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. This time around, Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s Patriot Purge is making the rounds online. The new documentary series features debunked conspiracy theories about the January 6 Capitol riot—theories that Carlson and… Read Full Article