{"id":45919,"date":"2021-10-06T17:11:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T21:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=dead32f501e4ef4d71b04c65556a96c2"},"modified":"2021-10-06T17:11:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T21:11:17","slug":"one-america-news-founder-claimed-he-started-network-at-atts-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=45919","title":{"rendered":"One America News founder claimed he started network at AT&T\u2019s request"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n

Article note: Well, it's _mostly_ a platforming argument, but there is still a noticeable bit of \"Disassembled abusive (but productive) monopoly reassembling itself like a Terminator, in the image of the modern even-more abusive and parasitic monopoly, funding an anti-government propaganda network.\"<\/div>
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A Reuters report<\/a> published today with the title \"How AT&T helped build far-right One America News\" alleges that the telecom giant played a significant role \"in creating and funding OAN, a network that continues to spread conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and the COVID-19 pandemic.\"<\/p>\n

While there's no evidence or allegation that AT&T played a direct role in creating OAN, Reuters points to a court case in which OAN's founder said he created the network after AT&T \"told us they wanted a conservative network.\" OAN also apparently gets the vast majority of its revenue from a carriage deal with the AT&T-owned DirecTV, which is by far the largest cable or satellite TV provider that carries the channel. OAN is carried by<\/a> providers including DirecTV, AT&T U-verse, Verizon FiOS, and CenturyLink, but not by large cable operators such as Comcast, Charter, and Cox.<\/p>\n

OAN owner Herring Networks claimed in a 2016 lawsuit<\/a> that AT&T promised to carry OAN on DirecTV in exchange for OAN's public support of AT&T's attempt to purchase the satellite provider, which required government approval. OAN's lawsuit claimed that AT&T reneged on the deal once its purchase of DirecTV was finalized in 2015. OAN finally got on DirecTV in 2017, weeks after agreeing to drop its lawsuit against AT&T. Herring also claimed in court that AT&T in 2013 proposed acquiring a 5 percent ownership stake in Herring, but that purchase was never made.<\/p><\/div>

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Enlarge (credit: One America News Network) <\/p>\n

A Reuters report published today with…<\/p>\n

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