After investing hundreds of millions of dollars to promote and generate original content, the online platform for the Fox cable propaganda network, Fox Nation, is essentially dead in the water, without a direction or a leading star. According to the Daily Beast, Fox Nation’s fate may have been sealed when Fox Corporation fired Tucker Carlson, the cable network’s top ratings producer and the leading generator of content on the streaming service.
Carlson’s cable programming was available on the streaming platform, and he did at least three additional interviews for online subscribers, plus Carlson produced a series of conspiracy-minded documentaries, the last of which, on a plot to convert Americans into a nation of bug-eaters–no, really, that’s really what it was about–was promoted in the last moments of Carlson’s time at the network. “Fox Nation is basically over without Tucker,” a network source told the Daily Beast. “They’re not shutting it down, and probably never will, but they’re really cutting it back.”
During the $787.5 million lawsuit settlement with Dominion, Fox executives found text messages in which Carlson disparaged Fox executives, women and minorities–as well as confirmed that he did not believe the conspiracy theories he was pitching on-air, the basis for the network’s decision to settle with the voting machine company.