The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis. Our economy is tanking, millions of workers are losing their jobs, families are struggling to make ends meet, essential workers cannot get personal protective equipment (PPE), and hundreds of thousands in the U.S. alone are infected with the deadly illness -- and rather than share critical information on air, Fox News is spreading lies and putting people in harm’s way.

In March when COVID-19 really began to take off across the country, Fox News hosts continued to downplay the seriousness of the pandemic, calling media outlets who take seriously the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidance “panic pushers.”

Then, Fox News, taking the signal from the ever-incompetent Trump, continued to advertise hydroxychloroquine as a treatment drug for the virus despite health care professionals clearly cautioning the public to not use the drug to treat the virus. Instead of back-tracking their dangerous advertisement of the drug, Fox hosts doubled down, claiming this is a culture war.

Now, Fox and other right-wing media outlets are spreading a racist and completely false rumor that the novel coronavirus came from a laboratory in Wuhan, China and are downplaying the deaths of over 56,000 Americans.

People across the country are being impacted by the COVID-19 crisis and are looking to news outlets, including Fox News, for credible, fact-checked information around the pandemic. Fox is spreading dangerous propaganda that leads to real-life catastrophes like large gatherings and protests, potential drug complications, and even death.

Fox News cannot continue to spread disinformation unchecked. They must be held accountable for their lies.

Sign the petition: Demand Fox News stop airing dangerous COVID-19 disinformation.

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