“Multiple academic and research-center studies have soundly debunked President Donald Trump’s repeated warnings that mail-in ballots—supposedly a Democratic plot to rig the November election in which Trump is running for a second term as 45th president of the United States—are rife with fraud. The leadership of Fox News, however, has apparently decided that the president’s made-up claims—eagerly parroted by primetime opinion-mongers Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham—could also be validated by the Trump-friendly cable channel’s nominal straight-news division” reports the Daily Beast.
“In recent weeks, Fox News’ Brain Room—the channel’s longtime research resource for its dwindling population of fact-based journalists, which suffered disproportionately in the latest round of layoffs—launched a behind-the-scenes operation that current and former staffers say is designed to reinforce and amplify Trump’s erroneous accusations. ‘Starting this Monday, October 5th, the Brainroom Research Team will launch the Election Integrity Project,’ Fox News VP and Managing Editor Tom Lowell wrote in a Sept. 30 memo. ‘Included will be a one-stop document broken up by state that showcases different stories where election integrity is potentially compromised.'”