Platform was largest US pay-TV provider still carrying OAN, which is facing billion-dollar lawsuits over election fraud claims
to continue providing the network and customers will not be able to access the service after 30 July.
The development means that OAN in effect will not have a major television platform in the US. DirecTV, a major revenue provider for OAN, announced that it was dropping the network in April. The only network still carrying the channel is General Communications Inc, available in a little over 100,000 households, the Daily Beast reported. OAN is also still available on two little-known streaming providers.
“One America News Network will be left without a major carrier to spread its often harmful and dangerous disinformation and baseless conspiracy theories,” Yosef Getachew, the media and democracy program director at Common Cause, a government watchdog group that urged Verizon to drop OAN. “This is a welcome change but long overdue.Common Cause and other civil rights groupsThe network, which has staunchly supported Donald Trump, has played a significant role in spreading the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from the former president.
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