Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) stated on Twitter on Monday that he had cancelled his DirecTV membership because the satellite television provider had dropped the far-right One America News Network.
“[email protected] is canceling @OANN, therefore I immediately cancelled my home Direct TV,” Paul tweeted on Monday. “Why would we pay money to those who hate us?”
.@DIRECTV is cancelling @OANN so I just cancelled my home Direct TV. Why give money to people who hate us?
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) January 17, 2022
On Friday, DirecTV revealed that it will be discontinuing OANN. In a statement to Bloomberg, the business said, “We told Herring Networks that, after a regular internal assessment, we do not intend to sign into a new contract when our present deal ends.”
DirecTV is the major distributor of OANN’s services in the United States. Over the last several years, the OANN network has been a source of controversy, with the network being accused of propagating false material on former President Donald Trump’s claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, as well as the Covid-19 epidemic.
“OANN’s support for the ‘Big Lie’ that the 2020 election was stolen, as well as the fact that it’s routinely providing attention to conspiracy theories and disinformation on COVID-19, transforms it from a participant in the marketplace of ideas into a purveyor of poisonous falsehoods,” according to Bloomberg.
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