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10 Popular Political Photo Memes That Are Totally Bogus

By Michael Gryboski, Editor

4. Fox News Admits They Lie

Social media photo meme that falsely claims that Fox News admitted in a court case that they lie.
Social media photo meme that falsely claims that Fox News admitted in a court case that they lie. | (Photo: Facebook / Anti-Republican Crusaders)

In 2014, the Facebook group Anti-Republican Crusaders promoted a political meme claiming that Fox News admitted in a court case that they lie.

Similar to other memes that make an identical claim, the apparent source material was a Chicago Media Watch story regarding a lawsuit from years ago involving a Florida-based Fox affiliate.

"We found no evidence that the Fox affiliate admitted that it lied about the news it ultimately presented, and we certainly found no evidence that Fox News as a whole admits it lies (in the present tense)," noted Politifact, rating the meme "False."

"While the Fox affiliate argued that it has the right to present the news as it chooses, it's quite a leap to suggest Fox as a television corporation defended some right to 'distort news reports' -- other than in a hypothetical sense to quash a wrongful termination suit."

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