Fox News is altering language in AP and Reuters articles on anti-trans legislation — including a quote from an elected official
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Fox News is altering language in AP and Reuters articles on anti-trans legislation — including a quote from an elected official
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-altering-language-ap-and-reuters-articles-anti-trans-legislation-including-quote
“Gender affirming care” was replaced with “sex change” or “sex reassignment” in at least 19 articles.
I can't speak to the legality, but it sure sounds like they violated the terms and agreement in place with AP repeatedly. I wonder what recourse AP has and if they could choose to disallow their content entirely on Fox? It seems like most news organizations get a majority of reporting from AP. I can only imagine the detrimental impact to Fox News if that came to pass.
I mean, it's not like anyone goes to Fox for real news anyways. I doubt any of their userbase would complain.