Since last Thursday, Fox News has boycotted Twitter, presumably in response to Twitter’s tacit permission for users to publicize Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s home address. Last Wednesday night, alleged activists from Antifa terrorized Carlson’s wife at Carlson’s home with verbal threats while also damaging Carlson’s front door.
As Mediaite reported, Fox News “regularly posts hundreds of tweets a day, and has racked up more than 400,000 tweets on its page. The Twitter account for Fox Business has been equally dormant, posting just one tweet in the past 24 hours.” Mediate quoted one source who stated that Fox News shut down its account on Twitter to protest the activists who mobbed Carlson’s home last Wednesday night.
The source continued, “[This] is a conscious decision in light of what was done to Tucker,” adding that Twitter was indifferent to requests to remove content that targeted Carlson.
Business Insider added that it had obtained an internal email from Fox News asking the company’s employees not to tweet out their stories or any other Fox News stories from their business or personal Twitter accounts. The email, from Fox News managing editor Greg Wilson, instructed employees to “please refrain from tweeting out our content from either section accounts or your own accounts until further notice.” An anonymous source within Fox News informed Business Insider the email was sent to every member of the digital team, comprised of roughly 140 people. – READ MORE