(New York) Fox News, an American television channel popular with conservatives, has given formal notice to its former star Tucker Carlson to stop broadcasting its program on Twitter, after its departure from the antenna at the end of April which lowered its audiences, have announced several American media.
On the social network bought by Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson’s lawyer, Harmeet Dhillon, reacted by assuring that his “client and friend” will not “be silenced, by the far left or by Fox News”, while by posting the article from the Axios site which revealed the information.
Contacted, Fox News did not respond immediately.
According to Axios and the New York TimesFox News believes in its letter to Tucker Carlson that he violates the terms of his contract which would bind him to the channel until 2025, despite his departure announced on April 24.
Two weeks later, the always impeccable presenter, known for his radical positions and his taste for certain conspiracy theories which made his success on the channel of Rupert Murdoch’s group, announced his arrival on Twitter.
Since then, he has posted two monologues, on June 6 and 8, in the same style as his show on Fox News, which had attracted an average of 3.3 million viewers in 2022, the best audience in the evening schedule of American news channels. The next episode is scheduled for Tuesday, in response to Donald Trump’s indictment in his presidential archives case.
After his departure, Fox News saw its ratings decline in May, while remaining ahead of its reputedly more moderate competitors like MSNBC and CNN. The two videos posted by Tucker Carlson, who has 8.3 million Twitter followers, were viewed 115 million times for the first, 55.2 million times for the second.
Tucker Carlson and Fox News parted ways in late April, a week after the channel agreed to pay electronic voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million to avoid a presidential libel suit. of 2020.
Fox News and its main stars, including Tucker Carlson, were accused of giving credence to the never-proven claim that the poll was rigged in favor of Joe Biden and against Donald Trump, with the help of Dominion machines .