Going Viral.

SOCIAL sciences education; CORRUPT practices in elections; GOVERNMENT policy; FOREIGN electoral interference; CONSERVATISM; CONSPIRACY theories; RUMOR; MEMES

FEATURES ON THE NIGHT AFTER THE NOVEMBER 3 ELECTION, HUNDREDS OF supporters of Donald Trump filled the parking lot of an election center in Arizona's Maricopa County, where officials were still counting ballots. But Trump loyalists could easily confirm their belief that the election had been stolen from the president elsewhere, in more rabidly partisan outlets like Newsmax TV and One America News Network, which declared Fox a "Democrat Party hack" in the wake of its Arizona call. PHOTO (COLOR): Alternative reality: Trump supporters in Maricopa County derided Fox for reporting on election night that Biden had won the state. To Trump and his supporters, the network's call in Arizona was a rare betrayal: In the previous four years Fox had become so enmeshed with the Trump administration that it functioned effectively as a mouthpiece for the White House. [Extracted from the article]

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