The Daily Beast reports that in their upcoming book Diamond & Silk “grumble about how Fox’s white primetime stars have gotten away with pushing COVID-19 misinformation similar to the claims that resulted in the Black duo’s expulsion. The right-wing sisters—who’d been contracted to produce videos for streaming platform Fox Nation—were dumped by Fox in late April after spreading coronavirus conspiracy theories claiming that the death count was ‘inflated’ to make Trump look bad; that the virus was ‘deliberately spread’ by either ‘deep-state snakes’ or the World Health Organization; that a vaccine will be used for ‘population control’ by Bill Gates; and that 5G technology is being used to infect people, with an ‘on and off’ switch for the virus.”
“‘We had dared to ask questions,’ the duo claim of the rants that got them axed. At the time, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told The Daily Beast: ‘After what they’ve said and tweeted you won’t be seeing them on Fox Nation or Fox News anytime soon.'”