Dallas Morning News rejects ad hammering AT&T for backing sponsors of Texas abortion bill, Democrati

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The Dallas Morning News won't run an ad calling out AT&T by name over the company's donations to lawmakers who backed a strict Texas abortion bill, a Democratic super PAC says.

The newspaper cited a policy against calling out companies by name in ads, according to the super PAC, American Bridge. AT&T is headquartered in Dallas.

The ad was set to run on the Dallas Morning News' website Tuesday, but the newspaper rejected it overnight, according to American Bridge.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/dallas-morning-news-rejects-ad-hammering-at-t-for-backing-sponsors-of-abortion-bill-democratic-super-pac-says/ar-AAPaugA

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1. And allegedly funded

OAN

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2. How AT&T helped build far-right One America News

One America News, the far-right network whose fortunes and viewership rose amid the triumph and tumult of the Trump administration, has flourished with support from a surprising source: AT&T Inc, the world's largest communications company.

A Reuters review of court records shows the role AT&T played in creating and funding OAN, a network that continues to spread conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and the COVID-19 pandemic.

OAN founder and chief executive Robert Herring Sr has testified that the inspiration to launch OAN in 2013 came from AT&T executives.

“They told us they wanted a conservative network,” Herring said during a 2019 deposition seen by Reuters. “They only had one, which was Fox News, and they had seven others on the other [leftwing] side. When they said that, I jumped to it and built one.”

Since then, AT&T has been a crucial source of funds flowing into OAN, providing tens of millions of dollars in revenue, court records show. Ninety percent of OAN’s revenue came from a contract with AT&T-owned television platforms, including satellite broadcaster DirecTV, according to 2020 sworn testimony by an OAN accountant.

Herring has testified he was offered $250 million for OAN in 2019. Without the DirecTV deal, the accountant said under oath, the network’s value “would be zero.”

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-oneamerica-att/