Fox News Wages Twitter Boycott Over Tucker Treatment
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November 10, 2018Fox News’ twitter followers are wondering where the heck they went.
The typically VERY active account hasn’t tweeted A THING since 2:18 pm EST on November 8th.
But no… Fox hasn’t been locked out, and they haven’t fired their social media person.
This is on purpose.
And it’s all over Twitter’s HORRIFIC treatment of Antifa’s attack on Tucker Carlson.
A source at Fox News told Mediaite the network’s social media shut-down is a response to the protestors that mobbed the home of Tucker Carlson on Wednesday night.
“[This] is a conscious decision in light of what was done to Tucker,” the source said. They suggested Twitter was fostering a dangerous climate that resulted in threats against Fox News employees.
This is kinda awesome. This will definitely cost them traffic to their website – but they SHOULD stand by their guy.
Good for them.
The @FoxNews Twitter account has been silent for over 24 hours. A Fox News employee tells me Fox is choosing to stay silent while protesting how Twitter handled posts targeting Tucker Carlson — specifically the ones that included his address. address.
— Scott Gustin (@ScottGustin) November 10, 2018
According to source, Facebook was prompt when alerted to posts that included his home address. Twitter support reportedly told Fox to “open a ticket” and did not remove the posts.
— Scott Gustin (@ScottGustin) November 10, 2018
Tucker’s personal address was exposed to thousands, if not MILLIONS of people in the process.
Fox already released a statement condemning the Tucker protesters but there has been no official statement on the Twitter protest/blackout. Source says the Twitter blackout decision came “from the highest level” of the company.
— Scott Gustin (@ScottGustin) November 10, 2018
Source indicated Fox will remain silent until Twitter removes the tweets and apologizes for mishandling the situation.
— Scott Gustin (@ScottGustin) November 10, 2018
A note – last several tweets from them are all breaking alerts. Don’t be surprised to see “breaking” tweets still going out during this “protest” involving Twitter.
— Scott Gustin (@ScottGustin) November 10, 2018
UPDATE: Around 8:30 a.m. ET Saturday, Greg Wilson (managing editor for https://t.co/SNnO1dFcZ8) sent an email to the entire digital team that instructed the team to “refrain from tweeting out our content from either section accounts or your own accounts until further notice.”
— Scott Gustin (@ScottGustin) November 10, 2018
The Fox News twitter usually posts hundreds of Tweets and has over 400,000 tweets on its page.
The Fox Business Twitter page has ALSO gone silent.
But they’re standing their ground.
