“DirecTV made the responsible decision to drop OAN. OAN is a cauldron of misinformation and extremism. “DirecTV made a negligent mistake in 2021 when they remained silent about how OAN’s industrial scale attacks on the election and stoking of the embers that helped fuel the January 6 insurrection could impact carriage renewal. “OAN had almost a full unchecked year to undermine our democracy — and our country suffered for it.” “Just as DirecTV’s silence in 2021 mattered, their decision to drop OAN in 2022 matters too. DirecTV has been functionally propping up OAN for years. Without DirecTV, OAN would certainly not exist in its current form and possibly not at all.” “Now that OAN’s anchor distributor has dropped them, Verizon FiOS (OAN’s second major distributor) should follow suit. And certainly no other cable provider should pick them up.”

Source: DirecTV to Drop One America News Following Call from Media Matters | Media Matters for America