<ul class="summary-list"><li>Alex Berenson has been "permanently suspended" from <keyword id="11892744" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="twitter" source="Orion">Twitter</keyword>, a spokesperson told NBC <keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">News</keyword>.</li><li>Berenson called his suspension from Twitter "censorship" as he defended himself and relocated to Substack.</li></ul>Editor's Note: This story has been updated from an earlier version to more accurately reflect the types of messages Berenson was sharing and to note that Twitter later reinstated Berenson's account.Twitter "permanently suspended" former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson for violating the platform's COVID-19 misinformation guidelines. In his final tweet, Berenson slammed vaccine COVID-19 mandates as "insanity." "It doesn't stop infection. Or transmission. Don't think of it as a vaccine. Think of it - at best - as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed IN ADVANCE OF ILLNESS. And we want to mandate it? Insanity," Berenson tweeted. A Twitter spokesperson<a href="https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1431769435120050180?s=20"> told NBC News</a> that Berenson's account was "permanently suspended for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation rules." "This was the tweet that did it. Entirely accurate," Berenson wrote, referencing his final tweet. "I can't wait to hear what a jury will make of this." Berenson<a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/ex-new-york-times-alex-berenson-coronavirus-skeptic"> gained popularity among conservatives</a> as a source for his skepticism of the COVID-19 vaccines. "For the past few weeks on Twitter, Berenson has mischaracterized just about every detail regarding the vaccines to make the dubious case that most people would be better off avoiding them. As his conspiratorial nonsense accelerates toward the pandemic's finish line, he has proved himself the Secretariat of being wrong," <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/pandemics-wrongest-man/618475/">Politico's Derek Thompson wrote in April</a> 2021.He posted about his suspension on<a href="https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/goodbye-twitter"> Substack</a>. In a statement, he said Twitter's actions qualified as censorship. "We have reached a dangerous moment. Social media companies that have audiences which dwarf any other are now actively censoring reporters at the behest of governments," Berenson told Insider. "I will continue to fight to get out the truth and am considering all legal options."Soon after the suspension,<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/covid-truther-alex-berenson-finally-banned-from-twitter"> the Daily Beast</a> said Berenson tweeted from a different account named @GenRescue. "Censorship is dumb," a tweet from the account read. While the account currently has no identifying information at time of publication, the Daily Beast reported the account previously had "definitely not Alex Berenson" as its bio, which included a link to Berenson's Substack. Despite its initial indication, on July 6, 2022, Twitter reinstated Berenson's account.In a statement to Insider, a Twitter spokesperson said: "The parties have come to a mutually acceptable resolution. Twitter has reinstated Mr. Berenson. Upon further review, Twitter acknowledges Mr. Berenson's Tweets should not have led to his suspension at that time."

COVID-19 vaccine skeptic Alex Berenson was 'permanently' banned from Twitter, until Twitter reinstated him

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Alex Berenson has been permanently suspended from <keyword id="11892744" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="twitter" source="Orion">Twitter</keyword> after trying to discredit the <keyword id="8764262" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid" source="Orion">COVID</keyword> vaccine.</li><li>Berenson has spread anti-masking and anti-vaccine disinformation throughout the pandemic.</li><li>Berenson called his suspension from Twitter "censorship" as he defended himself and relocated to Substack.</li></ul>Twitter permanently suspended former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson for violating the platform's COVID-19 misinformation guidelines. In his final tweet, Berenson discredited the efficacy of the COVID vaccine. "It doesn't stop infection. Or transmission. Don't think of it as a vaccine. Think of it - at best - as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed IN ADVANCE OF ILLNESS. And we want to mandate it? Insanity," Berenson tweeted. A Twitter spokesperson <a href="https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1431769435120050180?s=20">told NBC News</a> that Berenson's account was "permanently suspended for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation rules." Berenson <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/ex-new-york-times-alex-berenson-coronavirus-skeptic">gained popularity among conservatives</a> as a source for his <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/pandemics-wrongest-man/618475/">skepticism of masks, social distancing, and vaccines</a>. He posted about his suspension on <a href="https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/goodbye-twitter">Substack</a>. "This was the tweet that did it. Entirely accurate," Berenson wrote, referencing his final tweet. "I can't wait to hear what a jury will make of this."In a statement, Berenson said Twitter's actions qualified as censorship. "We have reached a dangerous moment. Social media companies that have audiences which dwarf any other are now actively censoring reporters at the behest of governments," Berenson told Insider. "I will continue to fight to get out the truth and am considering all legal options."Soon after the suspension, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/covid-truther-alex-berenson-finally-banned-from-twitter">the Daily Beast</a> said Berenson tweeted from a different account named @GenRescue. "Censorship is dumb," a tweet from the account read. While the account currently has no identifying information at time of publication, the Daily Beast reported the account previously had "definitely not Alex Berenson" as its bio, which included a link to Berenson's Substack.

COVID conspiracy theorist Alex Berenson banned from Twitter after posting anti-vaccine rant

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="6355315" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="elon-musk">Elon Musk</keyword> and writer <keyword id="9347612" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="alex-berenson">Alex Berenson</keyword> reportedly discussed starting their own <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news">news</keyword> company, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/19/business/media/coronavirus-contrarians-lockdowns-masks.html">The New York Times</a>.</li><li>Musk told The Times that the two men agree "that there's room for a fiercely nonpartisan news company," but Berenson has since abandoned the plan, the Times reports.</li><li>Berenson, a former New York Times reporter, has said that the response to the <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> outbreak has been overblown and has described wearing a mask as "useless," despite evidence to the contrary. </li><li>Musk has frequently downplayed the severity of the virus and appears to agree with Berenson on many of his views. In June, Musk tweeted that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-calls-for-breaking-up-amazon-over-coronavirus-book-2020-6">Amazon is a monopoly and should be broken up</a> after it initially refused to publish Berenson's coronavirus booklet. </li></ul><keyword id="107096" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tesla">Tesla</keyword> and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and writer Alex Berenson, who have both been skeptical about the severity of the coronavirus outbreak, reportedly discussed starting their own publication. According to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-calls-for-breaking-up-amazon-over-coronavirus-book-2020-6">The New York Times' Ben Smith</a>, Musk and Berenson considered launching their own news company, and Berenson held discussions about bringing on reporters. He has since abandoned the plan, The Times reports. Musk told The Times that he and Berenson "basically just agree that there's room for a fiercely nonpartisan news company." Representatives for Musk did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment. Berenson, an author and former New York Times reporter, has been <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/ex-new-york-times-alex-berenson-coronavirus-skeptic">outspoken about his theories</a> that the response to the coronavirus outbreak has been overblown, despite evidence from experts. He has incorrectly said "kids, children, almost anybody under 30 is at no risk" of contracting COVID-19 and that the lockdowns themselves are the source of problems related to the virus. He has also <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1283637587576578048?s=20">tweeted</a> that "Masks are useless," despite <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/face-masks-effective-in-protecting-against-coronavirus-2020-6">evidence</a> that wearing a mask prevents the spread of the virus and saves lives. In June, Berenson published a booklet called "Unreported Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns," which <keyword id="18635" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Amazon">Amazon</keyword>'s Kindle Direct Publishing service initially declined to publish, saying that the book did not comply with its guidelines. Berenson <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1268529570480824320?s=20">tweeted a screenshot</a> of Amazon's email, saying the company "censored" his book.Musk quickly spoke up, <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1268603809409888256?s=20">tweeting at Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos</a> that the situation was "insane." "Time to break up Amazon," Musk tweeted. "Monopolies are wrong!" Soon after, Amazon said the book was blocked in error and would be reinstated. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-coronavirus-comments-timeline-stay-at-home-rules-fascist-2020-5">Musk appears to agree</a> with Berenson on many of his views, calling the early response to the outbreak a "panic" and "dumb" and falsely saying that children are "essentially immune" to the virus. Musk has pushed for reopening businesses throughout the country, describing stay-at-home orders as "fascist" and at first defying local ordinances to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-confirms-tesla-california-factory-open-risks-being-arrested-2020-5">reopen his Tesla plant in California</a>.Musk has also described coronavirus death counts in the US as "misleading," despite the fact that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-coronavirus-death-counts-lie-too-high-2020-5">experts estimate the US has undercounted deaths</a>.

Elon Musk and coronavirus skeptic Alex Berenson reportedly discussed starting their own publication

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="6355315" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="elon-musk">Elon Musk</keyword> tweeted that <keyword id="18635" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Amazon">Amazon</keyword> should be broken up after its publishing service initially refused to publish a book about the <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword>. </li><li>"Time to break up Amazon. Monopolies are wrong!" Musk tweeted on Thursday. </li><li>Musk was referring to the book "Unreported Truths about <keyword id="8763838" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19">COVID-19</keyword> and Lockdowns" by <keyword id="9347612" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="alex-berenson">Alex Berenson</keyword>, an outspoken coronavirus skeptic who has become a darling among fringe conspiracy-theory groups.</li><li>Both Musk and Berenson have <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-coronavirus-comments-timeline-stay-at-home-rules-fascist-2020-5">posted falsehoods</a> about the coronavirus on Twitter, such as the incorrect claim that children are at no risk.</li><li>Amazon later said the book was removed in error and would be reinstated. </li></ul>Elon Musk is calling for Amazon to be broken up after Amazon's publishing service refused to publish a book by a writer who has put forth conspiracy theories and falsehoods about the coronavirus. "Time to break up Amazon. Monopolies are wrong!" Musk tweeted, tagging Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and calling the situation "insane." <blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1268603809409888256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2020</a></blockquote>Musk's comments were in response to Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing service refusing to publish the writer Alex Berenson's book titled "Unreported Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns." Berenson <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1268529570480824320?s=20">tweeted a screenshot</a> of an email he says he received from Amazon and said the company "censored" his book. The screenshot appeared to show the publishing division saying the book does not comply with its guidelines.Amazon later told Business Insider the book was removed in error and would be reinstated. Amazon has a history of allowing media that contains dubious scientific claims on its platform. Last year, it <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-removes-anti-vaccine-conspiracy-documentaries-from-prime-video-2019-3">removed anti-vaccination movies from Prime Video</a>, one of which had been labeled "Amazon's Choice." The company has also carried <a href="https://www.insider.com/whole-foods-amazon-anti-vaxxer-vaccines-2019-12">magazines containing anti-vaccine propaganda</a> in its Whole Foods checkout aisles. More recently, Amazon has had to <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-quietly-removes-coronavirus-books/">remove books about COVID-19</a> from its online store that contained conspiracy theories about the virus. Berenson is a former reporter for The New York Times who has been <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/ex-new-york-times-alex-berenson-coronavirus-skeptic">outspoken about his theories</a> that the response to the coronavirus outbreak has been overblown, despite evidence from experts. He has incorrectly said "kids, children, almost anybody under 30 is at no risk" of contracting COVID-19 and that the lockdowns themselves are the source of problems related to the virus. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-coronavirus-comments-timeline-stay-at-home-rules-fascist-2020-5">Musk appears to agree</a> with Berenson on many of his views, initially calling the response to the outbreak a "panic" and "dumb" and falsely saying that children are "essentially immune" to the virus. Musk has also pushed for reopening businesses throughout the country, describing stay-at-home orders as "fascist" and at first defying local ordinances to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-confirms-tesla-california-factory-open-risks-being-arrested-2020-5">reopen his Tesla plant in California</a>.Musk has also described coronavirus death counts in the US as "misleading," despite the fact that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-coronavirus-death-counts-lie-too-high-2020-5">experts estimate the US has undercounted deaths</a>.

Elon Musk tweeted that Amazon should be broken up after it initially rejected a book by a coronavirus skeptic who's peddled falsehoods

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Dr. <keyword id="225564" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Anthony-Fauci">Anthony Fauci</keyword> said he was horrified to see <keyword id="256595" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="CPAC">CPAC</keyword> attendees cheer that the US was unable to vaccinate 90% of people.</li><li>A crowd cheered when a CPAC speaker said the US government wasn't able to "sucker" people into getting vaccinated.</li><li>"I don't think that anybody who is thinking clearly can get that," Fauci said Sunday.</li></ul>Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Sunday he was horrified when attendees of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) appeared to cheer about the US failing to reach its vaccination goal this month. Video of a CPAC discussion at its second conference of 2021 in Dallas posted to social media appeared to show the crowd cheering on the US' inability to vaccinate most of its population. "They were hoping - the government was hoping - they could sucker 90% of the population into getting vaccinated. And it isn't happening," said Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter who The Atlantic earlier this year dubbed "<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/pandemics-wrongest-man/618475/">the pandemic's wrongest man</a>." Berenson was interrupted by cheers from the audience before he continued, claiming that younger people were avoiding getting vaccination because of potential side effects. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1413996097270435840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2021</a></blockquote>"It's horrifying," Fauci said Sunday <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2107/11/sotu.01.html">during an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union." </a>"They are cheering about someone saying that it's a good thing for people not to try and save their lives," he added. "I mean, if you just unpack that for a second... it's almost frightening to say hey, guess what, we don't want you to do something to save your life. Yay. Everybody starts screaming and clapping. Fauci added: "I just don't get that, and I don't think that anybody who is thinking clearly can get that."President Joe Biden in March <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-vaccine-goal-july-4-70-of-adults-vaccinated-2021-5">set a goal of having 70% of the US adult population vaccinated with at least one dose</a> of the vaccine by July 4. The US did not meet that milestone, according to <a href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations">data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a>.About 68% of the US adult population has been partially vaccinated against COVID-19, receiving at least one dose of the vaccine. In total, about 55% of the US population is partially vaccinated. About 48% of the US population is fully vaccinated against the disease, according to CDC data as of July 10. Vaccine hesitancy has <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-vaccine-hesitancy-delta-variant-spikes-2021-7">created new concerns about COVID-19 spikes</a> as the more contagious Delta variant becomes the dominant COVID-19 strain in the US. States with lagging vaccination numbers, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/arkansas-delta-variant-epicenter-vaccine-uptake-low-2021-7">like Arkansas, have seen an uptick in new cases as the variant takes hold. </a>

Fauci said it's 'horrifying' that CPAC attendees cheered about the US' lagging vaccination rate

<ul class="summary-list"><li>President <keyword id="99719" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Joe-Biden">Joe Biden</keyword> poked fun at <keyword id="85287" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Fox-News">Fox News</keyword> during a CNN town hall Wednesday night.</li><li>Biden said the network had "an altar call" in its turnaround on <keyword id="24209" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="vaccine">vaccine</keyword> coverage this week.</li><li>But two of Fox's most viewed hosts, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham, have remained anti-vaccine.</li></ul>President Joe Biden joked about the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-fox-news-changed-its-stance-on-vaccines-hannity-tucker-2021-7">notable shift in Fox News' coverage touting the COVID-19 vaccine</a> this week."One of those other networks is not a big fan of mine, uh, one you talk about a lot, but if you notice, as they say in the southern part of my state, they've had an altar call, some of those guys," Biden said of Fox at a CNN town hall event Wednesday night. "All of a sudden they're out there saying, 'Let's get vaccinated. Let's get vaccinated.'""The very people who before this were saying - so that, but that - I shouldn't make fun of it," the president continued. "That's good. It's good. It's good. We just have to keep telling the truth."<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1418004228300214272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 22, 2021</a></blockquote>Biden officials have reportedly been hesitant to take on Fox News directly when it comes to vaccines, citing concerns over any criticism being used to further erode trust in the administration's push to expand immunization, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/20/biden-fox-news-vaccine-500331">Politico</a>.Opinion host <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sean-hannity-fox-hosts-recant-disinformation-campaign-covid-19-vaccine-2021-7">Sean Hannity's Monday night monologue imploring his viewers to get vaccinated</a> typified the sea change at the network, but high-profile holdouts remain.Primetime hosts Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham - who draw Fox's peak viewership alongside Hannity - have continued to double down <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/11/business/media/vaccines-fox-news-hosts.html">misinformation and conspiracy theories</a> surrounding the inoculations.While Carlson and Ingraham often target those promoting the vaccine as being deceptive and nefarious, they have also featured guests promoting blatant falsehoods about the efficacy and safety of the shots.Alex Berenson, a COVID-19 skeptic whose claims on vaccines and the severity of the <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> have been <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/pandemics-wrongest-man/618475/">thoroughly debunked</a>, is a frequent guest on both Carlson and Ingraham's shows. He appeared on "The Ingraham Angle" on Monday night after the network heavily promoted the vaccine throughout the day.At a corporate level, Fox has taken the virus and vaccination quite seriously.Fox Corp. has a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-covid-protocols-vaccination-passport-memo-tucker-carlson-2021-7">return to work policy involving the kind of vaccine passport system that Carlson and Ingraham have railed against</a> as a violation of civil liberties.

Biden jokes that Fox News had 'an altar call' on COVID-19 vaccine coverage: 'I'm not being a wise guy'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Earlier this month, Cavuto revealed he had tested positive for <keyword id="11893994" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19" source="Orion">COVID-19</keyword>.</li><li>The <keyword id="11937547" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="fox-news" source="Orion">Fox News</keyword> host, who has preexisting conditions, credited the vaccine with saving his life.</li></ul>Fox <keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">News</keyword> anchor <keyword id="12346572" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="neil-cavuto" source="Orion">Neil Cavuto</keyword> received hate mail - and a seeming death threat - after <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-vaccine-coverage-neil-cavuto-life-too-short-quote-2021-10">urging his viewers to get vaccinated</a> against COVID-19.In a Tuesday afternoon segment on his show, "Your World," Cavuto discussed an email he received from one viewer who commented that he had appeared to lose weight."But I'm not happy with less of you," the email stated. "I want 'none' of you. I want you gone. Dead. Caput. Fini. Get it? Now, take your two-bit advice, deep-six it, and you!"Cavuto, who is currently broadcasting from his home, took the message in stride. "Wow, is he trying out for 'The Sopranos' prequel?" he joked.It's not the anchor's first brush with online acrimony. In May, he likewise discussed hate mail he had received while on hiatus. "Damn, you're still alive?" <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/neil-cavuto-reads-hate-mail-080029646.html">one viewer wrote</a>.A spokesperson for Fox did not immediately provide comment on whether the latest threats, given the intensity of the debate over vaccines, have prompted additional security measures.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1453091489198837761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2021</a></blockquote>The message was one of several that, at the very least, mocked Cavuto for encouraging vaccination after he reported earlier this month that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-host-neil-cavuto-covid-19-vaccine-saved-life-2021-10">he had tested positive for COVID-19</a>. At the time, the anchor, who has overcome multiple sclerosis, cancer, and heart disease, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-host-neil-cavuto-covid-19-vaccine-saved-life-2021-10">credited the vaccine</a> with saving his life."While I'm somewhat stunned by this news, doctors tell me I'm lucky as well," Cavuto, who has been with the network for 25 years, said in a statement released by his employer. "Had I not been vaccinated, and with all my medical issues, this would be a far more dire situation."Parent company Fox Corporation <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-covid-protocols-vaccination-passport-memo-tucker-carlson-2021-7">requires all on-site employees to either be vaccinated or undergo regular testing</a> for COVID-19. Nonetheless, other Fox News personalities have used their platforms to discourage vaccination, promoting misinformation about the vaccines and railing against state and corporate mandates.Primetime hosts such as Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham have still aired segments targeted against vaccine mandates and public health experts, as well as inviting <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/pandemics-wrongest-man/618475/">thoroughly discredited anti-vax guests such as Alex Berenson</a> onto their programs.Carlson baselessly claimed in September that the US military was <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson-military-vaccine-mandate-monologue-clip-testosterone-christians-takeover-2021-9">purging 'sincere Christians' and 'men with high testosterone levels' by requiring vaccines</a> within the ranks - with COVID shots being just one of 18 immunizations service members are required to receive.Fox News has undergone a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-fox-news-changed-its-stance-on-vaccines-hannity-tucker-2021-7">conflicted evolution in its vaccine coverage</a>, with the likes of Carlson and Ingraham sowing distrust in primetime after hosts like Cavuto promote the shots during the day.In his return on-air Sunday during an appearance on Fox News' "MediaBuzz" with Howard Kurtz, Cavuto said he is not interested in framing vaccines in political terms."I have no the time for that," Cavuto said. "Life is too short to be an ass. Life is way too short to be ignorant of the promise of something that is helping people worldwide. Stop the deaths. Stop the suffering. Please, get vaccinated. Please."

Fox News' Neil Cavuto shares death threat he received after encouraging people to get vaccinated

<ul class="summary-list"><li>In a rare interview, <keyword id="11937547" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="fox-news" source="Orion">Fox News</keyword> CEO <keyword id="12266088" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="suzanne-scott" source="Orion">Suzanne Scott</keyword> addressed her most controversial employee.</li><li>"I will never discuss those conversations," Scott, who is vaccinated, said of <keyword id="12002687" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tucker-carlson" source="Orion">Tucker Carlson</keyword>.</li></ul>Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott granted a rare interview to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/suzanne-scott-fox-news-25th-anniversary-1235025880/">The Hollywood Reporter</a> and refused to weigh in on her most-viewed host's anti-vaccine rhetoric.Scott, who said she's vaccinated, touted Fox PSAs for the vaccine and personal testimony of several anchors who've shared their experience getting the jab.Yet when it came to whether Carlson's rhetoric alarms her, she drew an iron curtain and presented a united front."I have a regular cadence of conversations with a wide variety of talent here, including our primetime talent," she told THR. "I will never discuss those conversations. That's not who I am. I am loyal first. I am loyal to everyone on the team, whether they are someone on the news side or the opinion side. To me, they are all people who work for Fox News <keyword id="11894119" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="media" source="Orion">Media</keyword>, and I respect the privacy of those conversations."Even as the network made an <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-fox-news-changed-its-stance-on-vaccines-hannity-tucker-2021-7">all-out blitz to promote the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines</a> back in July, Carlson contradicted his colleagues and continued his <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson-attacked-covid-19-vaccine-again-on-show-2021-5">months-long pattern of making baseless claims about the shots' safety</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/anthony-fauci-slam-tucker-carlson-personal-security-ridiculous-2020-8">personally attacking medical experts</a> advocating for the inoculations, telling his average of 3 to 4 million viewers to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson-continues-to-question-vaccine-break-with-other-hosts-2021-7">ignore "medical advice on television."</a>Carlson has also frequently invited novelist and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson on his show, despite his claims about COVID-19 and vaccines being <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/pandemics-wrongest-man/618475/">thoroughly debunked</a>.After repeated requests from Insider, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson-vaccinated-covid-fox-news-2021-5">Fox News still will not say if Tucker Carlson has been vaccinated or if he plans to be.</a>In line with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-cancel-culture-tucker-carlson-gutfeld-new-show-2021-4">Fox's PR messaging around the pro-free speech and anti-cancel culture ethos</a> of their cable and streaming programming, Scott compared the powerful 25-year-old network to a regular American family."When Trump was running [in 2016], my brother was a Bernie supporter, my other brother was a Hillary supporter, my mom was a Trump supporter, my extended family was all over the place," she said. "And you know what? We all love each other. And we could all debate it, and we could all talk about things and we could all have different opinions. And like The Five or other shows, we could all sit around a table and debate it and it didn't become an ugly situation. And my life is still that way."I have a diverse group of friends with varying political backgrounds and interests," she continued. "I think there is an intolerance to different points of view and opinions. But I celebrate different points of view. I celebrate diverse thought. I think we all learn from each other. It doesn't mean at the end of the day you're going to agree."Carlson maintains the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-ratings-most-watched-channel-summer-2020-primetime-2020-9">record for the most-watched show</a> in the history of cable news.

Fox News CEO refuses to comment on Tucker Carlson's anti-vaccine rhetoric: 'I am loyal first'

San Francisco, June 5 (IANS) After successfully sending 2 NASA astronauts into space aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Elon Musk has slammed Blue Origin and Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos, saying it is time to break up the ecommerce giant and end its monopoly. He tweeted after former New York Times reporter and prominent lockdown critic Alex Berenson published a screenshot, saying that his book titled "Unreported Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns: Part 1: Introduction and Death Counts and Estimates" has been censored on the ecommerce platform. "This is insane @JeffBezos," Musk said, tagging the Amazon CEO. "Time to break up Amazon. Monopolies are wrong!" The book, however, was available for purchase soon after the Musk tweet. "IT'S LIVE! Again, thanks to @elonmusk and everyone who helped," Berenson tweeted on Friday. "And the paperback is LIVE..." he added. Amazon said the book was removed by some error and was being reinstated. Musk has been a fierce critic of lockdowns and tweeted several times to reopen the country. During the latest Tesla earnings call, Musk said stay-at-home orders are fascist. This is, however, not the first time Musk tas taken a jibe at Bezos. Musk mocked Bezos' moon plans last year, saying they make no sense. Bezos had described his vision of humans living on miles-long, orbiting space stations called "O'Neill colonies", named after physicist Gerard O'Neill, who first floated the concept. "Makes no sense. In order to grow the colony, you'd have to transport vast amounts of mass from planets/moons/asteroids. Would be like trying to build the US in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean," Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla, tweeted. Bezos last year unveiled a new Moon-lander called "Blue Moon" after three years of development, along with a smaller rover at the Walter E. Washington Convention Centre. "We must return to the Moon - this time to stay. We're ready to support @NASA in getting there by 2024 with #bluemoon," Blue Origin had tweeted. --IANS na/

Elon Musk tells Bezos it is time to 'break up' Amazon

<div type="image" title="Analysis banner" height="61" width="1201" msid="84601641" hostid="261"></div><ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="85287" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Fox-News">Fox News</keyword> heavily emphasized <keyword id="24209" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="vaccine">vaccine</keyword> awareness and promoted their efficacy on Monday.</li><li>While several hosts had previously touted the shots, Monday marked a significant departure.</li><li>Splinters remain among the primetime lineup, and the White House has been in touch with the network.</li></ul>Typified by <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sean-hannity-fox-hosts-recant-disinformation-campaign-covid-19-vaccine-2021-7">Sean Hannity's monologue Monday night imploring his viewers to get the COVID-19 vaccine</a>, a sea change has come over the Fox News airwaves this week when it comes to the life-saving shots.The same day Insider and other outlets reported on Fox Corporation's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-covid-protocols-vaccination-passport-memo-tucker-carlson-2021-7">strict return to work policy involving an internal type of vaccine passport</a> - first <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7VdPRhveO4">reported</a> by Ryan Grim of The Intercept - Fox News hosts cranked up their vaccine messaging and banners featuring the <a href="https://www.vaccines.gov/">federal government's vaccine domain page</a> ran across Monday's programming.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1417178420950220811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2021</a></blockquote>Fox News' vaccine coverage has often mirrored its overall pandemic framing of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-covid-19-coverage-fits-a-pattern-sculpted-by-roger-ailes-2020-5">public health measures as culture wars</a>, a format pioneered by its late founder and CEO Roger Ailes.Fox News would not comment on internal deliberations for this story, and the network's top hosts have long boasted about the autonomy they are given from leadership when it comes to their shows.However, what may have seemed like a surprising development on Monday was actually the result of a months-long trajectory, with notable holdouts in the primetime lineup remaining.<h2>Lots of Fox News hosts have been vaccinated, but Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham have remained vocally anti-vax</h2>Over the past few months, Fox's pandemic segments did not usually feature open hostility toward vaccines, but some guests and top primetime hosts would <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-government-forced-sterilization-vaccines">baselessly lambast the Biden administration for potentially forcing the shots</a> on Americans.More than a year into the pandemic that has killed more than 600,000 Americans and continues to result in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cdc-director-says-covid-19-hospitalizations-are-mostly-unvaccinated-2021-7">preventable deaths among the unvaccinated</a>, the takes remain high in how Fox News covers the <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> and vaccines.Worries the highly infectious Delta-variant of the virus could continue spreading among the unvaccinated and force more lockdowns sent financial markets <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/oil-energy-stocks-chevron-exxon-shell-bp-delta-variant-open-2021-07">plunging</a> Monday.<a href="https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2021/04/23/republican-men-are-vaccine-hesitant-but-theres-little-focus-on-them">Conservative men are still among the most likely Americans to refuse the shots</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7VdPRhveO4">Fox viewers more likely than the general population</a> to say the same, according to polling from Pew Research and the Public Religion Research Institute.The network has maintained that it has a sharp division between its news and opinion programming, with most shows airing during the day falling into the former category, while the "Fox &amp; Friends" morning show, "The Five," and primetime shows fall under opinion and routinely attract the largest audiences.Yet when it comes to overall framing of COVID-19 measures, there have been similarities stretching from early mask mandates to vaccine passports.The administration's door-to-door outreach program was the latest subject of misleading segments, with both daytime and primetime hosts often focusing on the backlash to the program and a slippery slope toward authoritarianism rather than what it was: a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/us/politics/coronavirus-vaccination.html">nationwide outreach campaign led by local "community corps" groups</a>.Government overreach has been a consistent theme when it comes to the Biden administration's pandemic response and vaccine rollout, but many anchors and hosts have attested to the benefits of the vaccine from personal experience.Beyond news anchors who have spoken about getting the vaccine, opinion hosts Ainsley Earhardt, Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, Jesse Watters, Dana Perino, and Greg Gutfeld have all gone on-air to share that they got the shots.Hannity initially said he was "<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2021/05/14/fox-vaccine-mixed-message/">beginning to have doubts</a>" about the vaccine back in January, then said on his radio show that "it's none of your business" before eventually disclosing on his radio show that he'd plan on getting it.In an <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-the-five-cast-interview-jesse-watters-dana-perino-2021-7">exclusive interview with Insider</a> earlier in July, Watters framed his vaccine endorsement in terms of personal choice."Well, I got vaxxed. I got the J&amp;J because I'm afraid of needles," the co-host of "The Five" and host of "Watters World" told Insider. "And I told people, if you want to get the vaccine, go get the vaccine, go get vaccinated and it's going to help kill this bug. And it did. Thank God. And it's great."Other Fox personalities who have gone on record to say they've been vaccinated include Maria Bartiromo, Lawrence Jones, Trace Gallagher, Griff Jenkins, Mike Emmanuel, Bill Hemmer, George "Tyrus" Murdoch, Laura Ingle, Janice Dean, Charles Gasparino, John Roberts, and Guy Benson.Yet while Hannity made an impassioned plea for his viewers to get the shot - or, at the very least, to do their own "research" and consult with their doctors - Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham did no such thing at the end of Monday's vaccine blitz. Both have <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-hosts-vaccines-biden-trump-2021-2">espoused vaccine skepticism</a> of their own and warned of nefarious ulterior motives in the Biden administration's efforts, and both have featured guests peddling conspiracy theories and outright false information about the immunizations, most notably with frequent appearances from Alex Berenson.Berenson, a former New York Times reporter and fiction author, has peddled disinformation on the virus from the beginning, and <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/pandemics-wrongest-man/618475/">many of his claims have been thoroughly debunked</a>.Despite the copious fact checks on Berenson and the fact that he is not a doctor nor an epidemiologist - and despite the wall-to-wall coverage promoting the vaccine on Monday - he was right back on Ingraham's show that night.As for Carlson, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson-vaccinated-covid-fox-news-2021-5">neither he nor the network will say if he has been vaccinated or if he ever plans to</a>. Carlson has had ample opportunities to say he refused to take the jab, but he has yet to do that, either.Instead of taking the lead from his colleagues on Monday, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson-continues-to-question-vaccine-break-with-other-hosts-2021-7">Carlson doubled down and told his viewers to ignore "medical advice on television."</a>While the rest of the network slowly eased up on framing the vaccine around conflict and culture wars, Carlson and Ingraham have continued to go full steam ahead in depicting the immunizations as something to not only be skeptical toward, but weary and afraid.<h2>The influence of the White House and the Murdochs</h2>At her press briefing on Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the administration has been in touch with Fox and other outlets over vaccine coverage, going on to address the conservative network specifically."We understand also the importance of reaching Fox's audience about the COVID-19 vaccines and their benefits, and like we are with you here today, we are in regular contact and we of course make efforts to have officials out on a range of networks to talk about COVID-19," the press secretary said.There have also reportedly been discussions between White House officials and network brass over vaccine coverage, including a private briefing earlier this year between Fox producers and senior Biden officials on it, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/20/biden-fox-news-vaccine-500331">Politico</a>.A Fox News Media spokesperson denied that there have been any high level discussions with the White House, referring to a tweet from CNN's Kaitlan Collins earlier on Tuesday.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1417511287223881728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2021</a></blockquote>"CNN's reporting is inaccurate," the spokesperson told Insider in an email. "There have been no high level conversations between FOX News Media and the White House regarding our coverage. We had one routine briefing with the White House in early May on vaccination rates and our DC bureau personnel are regularly in touch with them on a variety of issues, as is the case with every other network."Fox Corp. did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment on the involvement of Chairman Rupert Murdoch and his son, Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch, and whether they stand by what Carlson and Igraham have been saying about the vaccines. In a May <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-ceo-lachlan-murdoch-profile-interview-2021-5">interview with Insider's Claire Atkinson</a>, Lachlan defended Carlson and his coverage, calling the top rated host's willingness to say what many Americans are thinking "brave."Rupert Murdoch even <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/11/business/media/vaccines-fox-news-hosts.html">got vaccinated before Queen Elizabeth II and President Biden back in December 2020</a>, but he has not weighed in on his American network's top hosts dismissing its efficacy.The Murdochs have more power than anyone else on the planet to steer Fox News' vaccine coverage amid the global coronavirus crisis - along with Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott - but Carlson and Ingraham continue to enjoy their apparent autonomy.Speaking to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/piers-morgan-tucker-carlson-interview-meghan-markle-return-to-tv-2021-4">Piers Morgan back in April</a>, Carlson went out of his way to thank the Murdochs for allowing him to say whatever he wants."The only reason we are having this conversation is because the Murdoch family, which controls Fox, is standing up in the face of the mob, and they haven't bowed," Carlson said. "I mean that's literally the only reason that I still have my job, and we're having this conversation."

Fox News and vaccines: What changed this week and what didn't as fears over Delta variant rise

San Francisco, June 27 (IANS) Tesla CEO Elon Musk has called Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos a copycat after the ecommerce giant announced to purchase self-driving car company Zoox pegged at over $1 billion. "@JeffBezos is a copy[cat] haha," Musk tweeted late Friday with a link to an article about Bezos' Zoox purchase. Like Tesla, California-headquartered Zoox "is applying the latest in automotive, robotics and renewable energy to design a symmetrical, bidirectional, zero-emissions vehicle from the ground up to solve the unique challenges of autonomous mobility". Zoox settled a lawsuit with Tesla in April after admitting that some new employees it hired from Tesla possessed documents when they joined Zoox. Tesla had filed a lawsuit in March last year against four former employees and Zoox. Earlier this month, Elon Musk has slammed Blue Origin and Amazon Founder Bezos, saying it is time to break up the ecommerce giant and end its monopoly. He tweeted after former New York Times reporter and prominent lockdown critic Alex Berenson published a screenshot, saying that his book titled "Unreported Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns: Part 1: Introduction and Death Counts and Estimates" has been censored on the ecommerce platform. "This is insane @JeffBezos," Musk said, tagging the Amazon CEO. "Time to break up Amazon. Monopolies are wrong!" The book, however, was available for purchase soon after the Musk tweet. Musk mocked Bezos' moon plans last year, saying they make no sense. Bezos had described his vision of humans living on miles-long, orbiting space stations called "O''Neill colonies", named after physicist Gerard O''Neill, who first floated the concept. "Makes no sense. In order to grow the colony, you''d have to transport vast amounts of mass from planets/moons/asteroids. Would be like trying to build the US in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean," Musk tweeted. Bezos has never replied to Musk on tweets against him. --IANS na/

Musk calls Bezos a 'copycat' over Zoox acquisition

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/53ca955d69beddeb52afd0b9-600-450/homeland-season-4jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="homeland season 4.JPG" />Jim Fiscus/Showtime</div></div></div>After <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/homeland-season-4-teaser-trailer-2014-7">teasing season 4</a> earlier this week, the first <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A6vKiOM0Ws">new trailer for "Homeland"</a> is here. 
If you dropped out of the Showtime series because the show was starting to become more of a soap opera between Brody (Damian Lewis) and Carrie (Claire Danes) than a CIA operative, it looks like producers have finally hit the reset button.
At the TCAs (Television Critics Association), producers announced the show will primarily focus on Carrie Mathison in Pakistan with Brody's daughter and family not returning. 
Specifically, producer Alex Gansa says the theme of season 4 will be the "<a href="https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&amp;q=public%20and%20private%20costs%20of%20keeping%20america%20safe&amp;src=typd">public and private costs of keeping America safe.</a>"
"Homeland" returns to Showtime Sunday, October 5.<iframe width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/-A6vKiOM0Ws"></iframe>
In case you're wondering, it's teased that Carrie does have her baby.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/53ca9396eab8ead975ebcc20-1200-632/carrie-baby-homeland.png" border="0" alt="carrie baby homeland" style="line-height: 1.5em;" /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A6vKiOM0Ws">Showtime/Homeland trailer</a></div></div></div>
Here's the first poster for the new season released by Showtime:<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/53ca94f06da811e4449bae16-600-800/homeland-poster-season-4.jpg" border="0" alt="homeland poster season 4" style="line-height: 1.5em;" />Jim Fiscus/Showtime</div></div></div>
Here are a few more images Showtime released for season 4:
Mandy Patinkin will return as Saul Berenson working for an independent contractor.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/53ca964b6bb3f7952e032819-800-600/saul-homeland-season-4.jpg" border="0" alt="saul homeland season 4" style="line-height: 1.5em;" />Joe Alblas/Showtime</div></div></div>
Suraj Sharma ("Life of Pi") will join the cast as Aayan.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/53ca96e96da811ad509bae12-800-600/suraj-sharma-homeland.jpg" border="0" alt="suraj sharma homeland season 4" style="line-height: 1.5em;" />Joe Alblas/Showtime</div></div></div>
And here's one more image of Carrie.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/53ca96eaeab8eadd75ebcc2a-800-600/carrie-homeland-season-4.jpg" border="0" alt="carrie homeland season 4" style="line-height: 1.5em;" />Joe Alblas/Showtime</div></div></div>

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