The right-wing media sphere was rocked by drama this week as the cable giant Fox News was sued by its smaller, younger competitor Newsmax, which alleges that Fox employs anti-competitive practices and agreements to keep itself in basic cable packages, and Newsmax is either relegated to premium tiers or not carried as an option at all. Nonetheless, the brewing fight between two right-wing cable networks, both of which have previously faced lawsuits for spreading election disinformation, attracted a flurry of commentary from analysts on social media — the more left-leaning of whom appeared gleeful at the prospect. "Newsmax has alleged this in public before; now, in their lawsuit, they're relying on text messages and emails that surfaced during Dominion's defamation lawsuit against Fox News Media," wrote media and tech journalist Matthew Keys.
Author: Matthew Chapman
Published at: 2025-09-03 21:32:02
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