Watch Angelo Carusone explain the “politics and profits” motive behind Fox's COVID misinformation campaign
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From the September 22, 2021, edition of KING-TV's King 5 News
ERIC WILKINSON (REPORTER): Cori's family says her views on the vaccine were influenced by right-wing media.
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Some of the same media that kept Patrick Lane, a healthy 45 year-old from Snohomish, from being vaccinated. He died earlier this month as well.
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ANGELO CARUSONE: The real way to deal with misinformation, much like a virus, is prevention. You have to stop it from spreading.
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Angelo Carusone is president of Media Matters, a nonprofit watchdog group that polices right-wing media. He says the agenda for the misinformation permeating conservative news is driven by politics and profits.
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CARUSONE: In this case, it's slow down the recovery, make it harder for anything to sort of seemingly get back to normal, reinforce the narrative about control, reinforce the narrative that everything is some kind of liberal conspiracy, and that the only people that can save you is Fox News.
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