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Progressive groups calling for Trump’s RNC to be aired on delay to ‘stop speakers spreading lies’
SEVERAL progressive groups are asking major TV networks like MSNBC and CNN to air the Republican National Convention on a delay to allow for fact-checking.
A addressed to various news networks on Monday read: "The best way to combat the spread of disinformation is to stop it at its source."
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"By putting the Republican National Convention on a one-minute time delay, your network will be able to actively correct disinformation in real time, and prevent the American people from being lied to on your airwaves," it continued.
"The future of our country, our people and our democracy is at stake."
On Monday night, the first night of the party's convention, CNN and to fact-check their claim that want to abolish suburbs by ending single-family home zoning, .
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The couple went viral after pointing their guns at protesters outside their home.
CNN and The New York Times also run fact-checking pages.
"I think it's important for objective journalists to note how wildly imbalanced the dishonesty is between current parties," CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale on Monday.
"This one half-night of programming so far has been exponentially more dishonest than the entire four nights of the Democratic convention."
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The letter from progressive groups to CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBCUniversal, and ABC warned major networks that the Republican convention would be a place for disinformation.
"Make no mistake, the Republican National Convention’s programming will be a primary source of dangerous disinformation about everything from voting rights, to racial justice and police violence, to medical disinformation and dangerous medical falsehoods about the pandemic," the letter reads.
The letter has been signed by UltraViolet, Higher Heights Political Fund, BlackPAC, ACRONYM, MomsRising, Color Of Change PAC, NARAL Pro-Choice America, EMILY’s List WOMEN VOTE!, #ShePersisted, and United We Dream Action.
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