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ificandream

(9,453 posts)
Tue Apr 30, 2024, 08:23 PM Apr 30

Fox News takes down Hunter Biden 'mock trial' miniseries after lawsuit threat

Source: CNN

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Fox News on Tuesday removed a six-part Hunter Biden miniseries from its streaming platform, after his attorneys threatened to sue the right-wing network over the incendiary and at-times sexually explicit program about his legal troubles. The removal is a swift response from the conservative media juggernaut, whose spokespeople were defending the material as recently as Tuesday morning.

“This program was produced in and has been available since 2022,” a Fox News Media spokesperson said in a statement. “We are reviewing the concerns that have just been raised and – out of an abundance of caution in the interim – have taken it down.”

The program, titled “The Trial of Hunter Biden,” was an offering on the Fox Nation digital streaming network. It was also promoted on Fox News, the cable TV channel. As of Tuesday afternoon, the link on the Fox Nation site for the six-episode series was not working. Episodes that were available before the lawsuit threat are no longer accessible.

The dispute primarily revolves around sexually explicit images of Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son, with women that were shown on-screen during the program, which featured a “mock trial” about his overseas financial dealings that led in part to his federal tax indictment and has also fueled House Republicans’ struggling impeachment inquiry into his father.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/30/politics/hunter-biden-fox-nation-series-removed/index.html



Fox will always be a garbage dump even though they took this down. They are the enemy, not the New York Times, not MSNBC.

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Photograph caption: Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, February 28, 2024. Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters
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Fox News takes down Hunter Biden 'mock trial' miniseries after lawsuit threat (Original Post) ificandream Apr 30 OP
Nice to see that Fox has been cowed by losing some big defamation suits in court. Martin68 Apr 30 #1

Martin68

(23,056 posts)
1. Nice to see that Fox has been cowed by losing some big defamation suits in court.
Tue Apr 30, 2024, 10:13 PM
Apr 30

The now hesitate to make their usual inflammatory and entirely false claims on air. The Justice system is working as it is supposed to.

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