Just two weeks after its launch on Fox Deportes, Fox Noticias — a daily Spanish-language news show hosted by longtime network fixture Rachel Campos-Duffy — has shown it will feature more of the same false, propagandist bigotry that appears on Fox’s broader programming. 

Campos-Duffy has previously both been a Fox News host and contributor. She has spent years spreading anti-immigrant rhetoric and misinformation about abortion and COVID-19. Notably, she has also pushed the “Great Reset” conspiracy theory, which falsely claims that international climate actions are a globalist front to strip people of their freedoms. She has also spread the white supremacist “great replacement” conspiracy theory, which falsely claims that there is a plot engineered by elites to replace white Americans with nonwhite immigrants.

This is not the first time the network has tried to reach Hispanic audiences. In 2010, Fox News launched Fox News Latino, which was found to be tailoring coverage of the same news events to pander to Latino audiences before it shut down in 2016. 

Now, as Fox Noticias gets into swing, Campos-Duffy has made it clear that the show will be another arm of the Fox propaganda machine, mirroring Fox News’ model by fearmongering about migrant crime, spreading misinformation about COVID-19, spreading false conspiracy theories about gender-affirming care, falsely linking Vice President Kamala Harris to communism and price controls, and, of course, playing cover-up for former President Donald Trump. 

Most recently, on Fox Noticias' next-day coverage of Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden, Campos-Duffy failed to cover the racist “floating island of garbage” remarks that were made about Puerto Rico. 



In just her first few weeks on Fox Noticias, Campos-Duffy has claimed there is a “deep state that is trying to manipulate us with lies and censorship,” praised Trump for supposedly being “macho,” pushed the smear that Democrats are sexualizing children, and more:

• In a rant covering a range of issues, Campos-Duffy falsely claimed the Biden administration “has unleashed an unprecedented crime wave.” She also made outlandish claims about cartels “enslaving a generation of children into sex trafficking." She said that the supposed “open border” has “unleashed an unprecedented crime wave. Transnational cartels are terrorizing Americans by killing innocent women and girls, and enslaving a generation of children into sex trafficking.” In reality, evidence suggests violent crime has fallen across the country since President Joe Biden took office in 2021 and that immigrants commit violent crimes at lower rates than native-born Americans. [Fox Deportes, Fox Noticias,  10/21/24; Poynter, 5/29/24; Brennan Center for Justice, 5/29/24; American Immigration Council, 10/24/24]
• In the same segment, Campos-Duffy also claimed that “our government also lied during COVID,” and that Americans “are tired of the deep state that tries to manipulate us with lies and censorship.” She said, “They said that masks worked, they said that confinement prevented the spread, they said that COVID did not come from a lab in Wuhan, and they said that the U.S. did not fund gain-of-function research. How many businesses and American dreams were lost? How many elderly people died from isolation? And how many people have vaccine injuries that no one recognizes? And how many children have fallen behind academically or into depression? The United States is at a crossroads. We are fed up with the lies. We are fed up with the deep state that is trying to manipulate and control us with lies and censorship.” [Fox Deportes, Fox Noticias,  10/21/24]  
• Campos-Duffy claimed that Democrats are “using schools to promote this ideology that sexualizes children.” Referring to an interview in which New York Times opinion writer Jessica Grose said, “It’s a little tricky as a Democrat” for Harris “to talk about faith,” Campos-Duffy said, “Really? Is showing her faith in God considered too complicated for her? The most horrible thing the Democratic Party has done is using the last three years of the administration to push gender politics. Most seriously, it is affecting children and causing sexual confusion, using schools to promote this ideology that sexualizes children in defiance of the values and rights of parents.” This is a common lie in right-wing media that has been repeatedly debunked. [Fox Deportes, Fox Noticias, 10/24/24; Media Matters, 9/10/24; NBC News, 9/9/24; KJZZ Phoenix, 10/9/24]
• Campos-Duffy claimed Harris wants to “convince minorities that we are unable to succeed without handouts.” During the segment, she claimed, “Kamala’s dream is of power and dependence and starts by trying to convince minorities that we are unable to succeed without handouts.” Later, in response to a clip of a Harris interview, Campos-Duffy said, “Forgiving loans to Black people? In other words, she thinks that Black people are incapable of paying back these loans or that they lack the morals to do so.” [Fox Deportes, Fox Noticias, 10/16/24]
• Campos-Duffy claimed Harris is a “Marxist” who wants “to create a dependence on her political party.” After playing a clip of Harris’ press conference during a visit to an abortion clinic in March, Campos-Duffy concluded, “Her motive is to create a dependence on her political party. Why? Well, because Marxists only want power over everything, and nothing scares them more than a man or a woman who is economically free.” [Fox Deportes, Fox Noticias, 10/16/24]
• Campos-Duffy falsely claimed Harris’ economic agenda involves “communist ideas” like “price controls.” She said Harris “is also blaming companies and corporations, saying they are corrupt, and has said the solution for this is price controls, something I would think Maduro would say. That is, these are communist ideas that have never worked.” In fact, Harris’ plan specifically mentions anti-monopoly actions and enhanced authority for the FTC and state attorneys general to combat price fixing, not price controls. [Fox Deportes, Fox Noticias, 10/24/24; Media Matters, 8/21/24]
• Campos-Duffy claimed that “drug cartels have never been richer or more powerful” thanks to “the open border policies of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.” She said, “Who’s to blame? The open border policies of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Under their government, 12 million illegal immigrants have arrived in the country. The cartels control the southern border, not our Border Patrol. No one gets in or out without permission from the cartels, and every immigrant who crosses enriches these violent criminals more. The human trafficking business is on the rise. That is, it’s booming, and thanks to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the drug cartels have never been richer or more powerful.” [Fox Deportes, Fox Noticias, 10/15/24]
• Campos-Duffy praised Donald Trump for supposedly being “macho” and called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz “weird” and “beta.” She said Trump is “a man who does not regret being macho” and argued, “That attitude is his biggest advantage among Latino men.” She also said, “Kamala Harris wants to be the first woman president, but the vice president has a problem with men. After years of telling men they are toxic and unnecessary, she and the progressive left have suddenly realized they need men to win in November. Now, they've come up with a plan. She hired high school football coach and so-called hunter Tim Walz as her running mate to try to identify with what real men want. The problem is, he is beta, a little weird, and can't fire a gun.” [Fox Deportes, Fox Noticias, 10/19/24, 10/19/24]
• Campos-Duffy claimed the U.S. State Department is engaging in “cultural imperialism.” She said, “Instead of deepening our economic ties with our Latin American neighbors, the United States State Department has been engaged in an offense of cultural imperialism. First, exporting and funding initiatives at NGOs to promote technological censorship, abortion, climate radicalism, and LGBTQ ideologies. Meanwhile, China is playing for its place in Latin America and undermining our position of dominance in the Western Hemisphere.” [Fox Deportes, Fox Noticias, 10/19/24]