AOC suggests government should drop hammer on Fox News for 'very clearly' inciting violence — but there's a glaring problem
Media Industry,Politics,Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,Democratic Party,1st Amendment,Free Speech,Fox News
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) suggested Sunday the federal government needs to regulate Fox News because the network is "very clearly" guilty of inciting violence.
The problem, though, is that Ocasio-Cortez did not provide any evidence to back her claim.
What did AOC say?
MSNBC host Jen Psaki asked Ocasio-Cortez about Fox News' $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems and whether the company erred by not forcing Fox News to acknowledge "that they lied."
In her response, Ocasio-Cortez said the case "raises much larger questions," including what content is "permissible" for broadcast.
"We have very real issues with what is permissible on air, and we saw that with Jan. 6, and we saw that in the lead-up to Jan. 6, and how we navigate questions, not just of freedom of speech but also accountability for incitement of violence," she responded.
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