Tucker Carlson Announces New Twitter Show; As The Ex-Fox News Host Threatens Legal Action Against The Network Following His Ouster

Tucker Carlson, who was recently fired from FOX News cable network, announced in a video posted on Twitter Tuesday, that he's launching a new show on the social media platform. "Starting soon, we'll be bringing a new version of the show we've been doing for the last six and a half years to Twitter," he says in the viral video captioned 'we're back.' "We bring some other things to which we'll tell you about. But for now, we're just grateful to be here."

The popular conservative journalist called out the rampant deceit and manipulation of news in the left-wing news media.

"Much of what you see on television or read the New York Times, is in fact true in the literal sense, it could pass one of the media's own fact checks," Carlson says in the 3-minute video. "Lawyers would be willing to sign off on it, in fact, they may have. But that doesn't make it true. It's not true. At the most basic level, the news you consume is a lie, a lie of the stealthiest and most insidious kind. Facts have been withheld on purpose, along with proportion and perspective. You are being manipulated. How does that work? Let's see. If I tell you that a man has been unjustly arrested for armed robbery that is not strictly speaking a lie. He may have been framed at this point, there's been no trial, so no one can really say. But if I don't mention the fact that the same man has been arrested for the same crime six times before, am I really informing you? No, I'm not."

"I'm misleading you," he continued. "And that's what the news media are doing in every story that matters every day of the week, every week of the year. What's it like to work in a system like that? After more than 30 years, in the middle of it, we could tell you stories. The best you could hope for in the news business at this point is the freedom to tell the fullest truth that you can. But there are always limits. And you know that if you bump up against those limits, often enough, you will be fired for it. That's not a guess. It's guaranteed. Every person who works in English language media understands that the rule of what you can't say defines everything. It's filthy, really. And it's utterly corrupting. You can't have a free society if people aren't allowed to say what they think is true. Speech is the fundamental prerequisite for democracy. That's why it's enshrined in the first of our constitutional amendments."

Carlson, who reportedly spoke in the past week, to Twitter CEO Elon Musk, hailed the social media network as one of the few remaining platforms open for free speech.

"Amazingly, as of tonight, there aren't many platforms left that allow free speech," the former FOX News host says. "The last big one remaining in the world, the only one is Twitter, where we are now. Twitter has long served as the place where our national conversation incubates and develops. Twitter is not a partisan site, everybody's allowed here. And we think that's a good thing. And yet, for the most part, the news that you see analyzed on Twitter comes from media organizations that are themselves thinly disguised propaganda outlets. You see it on cable news, you talk about it on Twitter."

Responding to Carlson's post, Musk tweeted: "On this platform, unlike the one-way street of broadcast, people are able to interact, critique and refute whatever is said. And, of course, anything misleading will get @CommunityNotes. I also want to be clear that we have not signed a deal of any kind whatsoever. Tucker is subject to the same rules & rewards of all content creators. Rewards means subscriptions and advertising revenue share (coming soon), which is a function of how many people subscribe and the advertising views associated with the content. I hope that many others, particularly from the left, also choose to be content creators on this platform."

Tucker Carlson Threatens Legal Action Against Fox News Following His Firing From The Network

Carlson's lawyers reportedly sent an aggressive letter Tuesday, to Fox Corporation arguing that the noncompete provision in his contract -- which bars him from launching his own competing show or media enterprise -- is no longer valid.

The letter alleges that Fox broke an agreement with Carlson not to leak his private communications to the media and not to use Carlson's private messages "to take any adverse employment action against him." It also alleges Fox broke promises not to settle with Dominion Voting Systems "in a way which would indicate wrongdoing" on the part of Carlson and not to take any actions in a settlement that would harm Carlson's reputation.

The ex-Fox News host was reportedly told by a member of the Fox corporation board that he was taken off the air as part of the network's recent $787 million legal settlement with Dominion.

"These actions not only breached the covenant of good faith and fair dealing in the Agreement, but give rise to claims for breach of contract, and intentional and negligent misrepresentation," the letter says.

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