Show moved to Twitter
Fox News warns Tucker Carlson
06/13/2023 11:04 am
After being kicked out, right-wing US presenter Tucker Carlson quickly moved his evening show to Twitter. His former employer Fox News doesn’t like that at all and reminds him of his exclusive contract, which is valid until 2025, with a cease-and-desist declaration. His lawyer does not want to accept the muzzle.
The right-wing US news channel Fox News has warned the moderator Tucker Carlson, who he recently fired, against continuing his evening show, which had been successful there up to now, on the online service Twitter. Despite his departure from Fox News, Carlson is bound by his exclusive contract, which runs until 2025, according to a cease-and-desist declaration quoted by the news portal Axios and the New York Times.
His “friend and client” will “not be silenced – neither by the extreme left nor by Fox News,” said Carlson’s lawyer Harmeet Dhillon appropriately on Twitter. Fox News initially did not comment on the reports.
Tucker Carlson is one of the most influential conservative voices in the United States and is known as a right-wing agitator. Critics repeatedly accuse him of racist statements and false or misleading information. Just a few months ago, he caused a sensation with a documentary in which he downplayed the violence by supporters of President Donald Trump, who was voted out of office, during the Capitol storming on January 6, 2021. Carlson, who interviewed Trump repeatedly, had the best ratings of any US news channel evening anchor. Again and again he was said to have political ambitions.
Fox News fired Carlson at the end of April. The split comes less than a week after the historic settlement between Fox News and voting machine company Dominion over false voter fraud allegations following the 2020 presidential election.
Carlson wants to speak about Trump charges
A few weeks after leaving Fox News, Carlson announced that he would be moving his show to Twitter. Twitter boss Elon Musk took over the online service last October for 44 billion dollars (today around 40 billion euros). According to critics, hate speech and misinformation have surged on the platform since then. Then, in early June, Carlson posted two lengthy rants on Twitter, in the style of the announcers for his previous Fox News show.
According to his producer, the next episode of his Twitter show will be about the indictment of ex-President Donald Trump. Carlson’s first video has 115 million views, and the second video has more than 55 million views as of Monday night. Fox News, meanwhile, saw its ratings decline in May following Carlson’s departure, but still ahead of its peers MSNBC and CNN.