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Does Fox News bias the election? Should it be required to make amends?

Do you think it has more, or less influence then a 100K spend Facebook ad campaign by Russia?

Way less obviously there are laws to help prevent foreign actors from injecting money and influence in to our elections. Which is why there are bipartisan congressional hearings on an unprecedented attack.

I understand that this is illegal. What I don't understand is why domestic manipulation of elections isn't. Eric Schmidt and Rupert Murdoch don't have the interests of the US in mind any more then Putin does.

Just because it's quite precedented doesn't make it right.

Nevermind the US government, and its agencies manipulating elections throughout the world going on 70 years

>domestic manipulation of elections

You mean campaigning?

Rupert Murdoch isn't himself running for president, but it's pretty clear that he is trying to manipulate the election into a particular outcome.

All the same arguments for why Putin's involvement should be illegal can also be levied against him.

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