Assets owned by Rupert Murdoch or Fox News are not committed to journalist integrity and not committed to reporting of facts. This is why it’s important to avoid supporting those websites if possible.

Often times websites like nypost just summarize articles written by other people. If you are about to share a link from one of these websites it’s better to find another source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Fox_Corporation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_News_Corp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:News_Corporation_subsidiaries

Also if someone has a Reddit account could you try to advocate for this on Reddit too please?

Here is a possible message you could use to advocate for this. I would recommend personalizing your message before sending. In a comment I will show an example how I tweaked my message. In fact this was the message I was about to send to the moderators of politics@lemmy.world but then I read their rules and realized I could update my message to make the message more personal.

According to Wikipedia “Many of [Rupert] Murdoch’s papers and television channels have been accused of biased and misleading coverage to support his business interests and political allies”. For this reason I’m calling for Murdoch and Fox websites to be considered “B”-tier sources, that is to say other websites that have a better reputation should be preferred. Often times articles on websites such as the New York Post (nypost) and Fox News are nothing more than summaries of articles from other reporters with added bias. A New York Times article (archive link) has mentioned this practice.

I see the following possible actions that could be taking on the Politics community.

• The automoderator can reply to any link to a Murdoch owned website and issue a warning. The warning could be something like this:

The following website is owned by Rupert Murdoch. Assets owned by Murdoch have a reputation for bias and misleading coverage to support Murdoch’s business and political interests. Please use caution when reading and sharing the article and seek out more reputable sources. Consider using an adblocker such as uBlock Origin when visiting the link or use the archive link instead of visiting directly.

In the future note that it’s recommended when posting to Politics to use reputable sources. We discourage the linking of this website unless the reporting on the specific article you posted was original and verified.

• People should be encouraged to seek another more reliable source if possible unless the link offers unique and verified reporting.
• People visiting the link should be encouraged to use an adblocker such as uBlock Origin
• Instead of linking directly to the website an archive link should be visited.
• If the article contains misinformation or disinformation it should be removed. (I’m thinking you all already do this but perhaps articles on these website should get more scrutiny or be removed if a better source exists)

Wikipedia has a list of entities that are ultimately owned by Rupert Murdoch:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Fox_Corporation
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_News_Corp
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:News_Corporation_subsidiaries

I hope you will consider taking a stand for journalistic integrity and truth and consider deprioritizing Murdoch owned assets. Thank you so much for your time!