RupertMurdoch
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Powerful media owner.
Supports most of the evil in the world.
https://theintercept.com/2018/11/04/fox-news-is-poisoning-america-shun-rupert-murdoch/
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https://boingboing.net/2019/03/04/state-media-r-us.html The state of Fox News under DonaldTrump
Also, allegedly too frightened of Trump to tell the truth : https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/17/business/fox-news-dominion-lies/index.html
Quora Answer : Is Murdoch's huge media empire a threat to democracy?
Depends what you mean by threat to democracy.
If you mean something like "politicians worry that the opinions of media owners bias their chances of getting elected and so they (the politicians) try to do what media proprietors want" then, yes, definitely.
Update : this seems to be a relevant story. Direct threats made against politicians if they didn't support NI : http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/23/news-international-liberal-democrats-bskyb
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