Fox News sends Tucker Carlson cease-and-desist letter over Twitter series, reports say

WASHINGTON –

Fox News despatched Tucker Carlson a “cease-and-desist” letter over his new Twitter collection, Axios reported Monday, amid studies of a contract battle between the conservative community and its former prime-time host.

Carlson was ousted from Fox in late April, lower than every week after Fox agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems practically US$800 million to settle an explosive defamation case. The community supplied no clarification for the firing, however a wave of studies on damming textual content messages and different statements Carlson made throughout his time at Fox have since piled up.

Since leaving Fox, Carlson kicked off a “Tucker on Twitter” collection — arguing that Twitter was “the only” main remaining platform that enables free speech as he denounced news media. The collection, which has revealed two episodes to this point, has appeared to escalate contract tensions between Carlson and Fox.

Fox has demanded Carlson to cease posting movies to Twitter, The New York Times additionally reported Monday — because the community’s attorneys accuse Carlson of violating his contract, which runs till early 2025 and restricts his potential to look on different media shops. Meanwhile, Carlson’s attorneys have stated the community breached the contract first.

A spokesperson for Fox News Media and attorneys representing Carlson, Bryan Freedman and Harmeet Dhillon, didn’t instantly return The Associated Press’ requests for feedback on Tuesday.

“Doubling down on the most catastrophic programming decision in the history of the cable news industry, Fox is now demanding that Tucker Carlson be silent until after the 2024 election,” Dhillon stated in an announcement despatched to Axios and the Times. “Tucker will not be silenced by anyone.”

Before his April firing, Carlson was Fox’s top-rated host. His stew of grievances and political theories grew to outline the community over latest years and made him an influential, and extensively controversial, pressure in GOP politics.

Carlson has beforehand come underneath fireplace for defending a white-supremacist principle that claims white persons are being “replaced” by folks of color, in addition to spreading misinformation about points starting from the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol to Russia’s conflict in Ukraine.