Pundits in vaccine segments made 151 claims undermining or downplaying vaccines, representing 70% of the total attacks on vaccination efforts.Fox personalities and guests made a total of 216 claims undermining or downplaying vaccines in segments about coronavirus immunization.All of Fox’s weekday evening opinion shows with vaccine segments - Fox News Primetime, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Hannity, and The Ingraham Angle - included claims undermining or downplaying coronavirus vaccines in those segments.Fox & Friends, including its early morning and weekend iterations, aired the most vaccine segments during this period, with more than half (52%) featuring claims undermining or downplaying immunization.Thirty-seven percent of segments included claims suggesting that vaccines are unnecessary or dangerous.Forty-five percent of segments included claims suggesting that the vaccination drive is coercive or that it represents government overreach.Of those, 57% included claims that either undermined or downplayed immunization efforts. Fox hosts Brian Kilmeade and Laura Ingraham made the most such claims with 22 and 18 statements, respectively. Over the two-week study period, Media Matters identified 129 coronavirus vaccine segments on Fox. Out of those, 57% of segments included claims that undermined or downplayed vaccines or immunization efforts. In 58 segments, or 45%, Fox described immunization efforts as coercive or government overreach, or framed them with a false dichotomy of “personal choice” against “medical freedom.” Personalities and guests on the network argued against vaccination or highlighted extremely rare medical complications in 48 segments, or 37% of the total. The network’s opinion programming aired 80 coronavirus vaccine segments, 69% of which included claims undermining or downplaying vaccines or immunization efforts. Its “news”-side programming aired 49 segments about vaccines, with 39% of those including claims undermining or downplaying vaccines or immunization efforts. The show with the most vaccine misinformation was the network’s flagship morning program, Fox & Friends. Co-host Brian Kilmeade summed up the program’s resistance to vaccination efforts when he described the Biden administration’s campaign to get more Americans vaccinated as “mind boggling.” Including its early morning and weekend counterparts, Fox & Friends aired 44 vaccine segments, 52% of which included claims undermining or downplaying vaccines or immunization efforts. Notably, Fox’s weekday evening opinion shows - Fox News Primetime, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Hannity, and The Ingraham Angle - promoted claims undermining and downplaying immunization in all of their coronavirus vaccine segments. The Ingraham Angle in particular did so in 15 segments over the two-week period, with both the host and her guests undermining vaccination rates. In total, Fox personalities and guests made 216 claims undermining or downplaying vaccines or immunization drives. Out of those, 151 claims came from pundits on the network, which represented 70% of the total. Fox pundits described vaccine efforts as coercive or government overreach 103 times and described vaccines as unnecessary or dangerous 75 times.įox hosts Brian Kilmeade of Fox & Friends and Laura Ingraham of The Ingraham Angle were the network’s worst offenders. Kilmeade made 22 claims downplaying or undermining vaccines or immunization, and Ingraham made 18 such claims. Other top offenders were hosts Tucker Carlson (11), Rachel Campos-Duffy (11), Pete Hegseth (11), Ainsley Earhardt (11), and Will Cain (10).
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