Newsmax continues Fox News to have a “monopoly” on the news on the right

Conservative Newsmax Newsmax pursues Fox News, accusing his right -wing network of network of having started anti -competitive practices.

In an antitrust trial filed in Florida this week, Newsmax accuses Fox of having abused his position at the top of the right media food chain to prevent small competitors – namely himself.

“Fox Corporation has long been in an exclusion system to increase and maintain its domination on the market for American paid television news, which has led to the abolition of competition on this market that harms consumers, competition and the dissemination of Newsmax,” said the complaint of the broadcaster.

Fox obviously does not agree. When he was contacted to comment on Gizmodo, a spokesperson for Fox News provided the following comment: “Newsmax cannot make their own path of their own competitive failure on the market to make the headlines simply because they cannot attract viewers.”

The trial claims that, if it was not the “fox anticoncurrent behavior”, Newsmax would have “produced a larger distribution of wage television, given its audience and its notes develop earlier, acquired earlier” critical mass “for the main advertisers and become, overall, a more precious media property”. Newsmax claims that Fox has used at least three anti -competitive tactics which include the following elements:

Firstly, Fox imposes explicit or tacit provisions of “non-carry” on distributors, conditioning access to its commercially critical content on the concession of distributors so as not to transport other right-wing information channels such as Newsmax and others.

Second, it imposes financial sanctions on distributors if they transport Newsmax or others by forcing distributors to transport and pay high costs for chains that are not regarded by Fox like Fox Business.

Third, Fox inserts a series of other contractual obstacles to its transport agreements intended to prevent Newsmax and others from competing. These tactics constitute illegal restrictions of trade and traffic directly from the illegal Fox monopolization on the market for information on right wage television.

The idea that one of Donald Trump’s favorite news broadcasts is to continue the other is quite incredible. Trump has repeatedly congratulated Newsmax, including this summer when he promoted the network on his social media platform, Truth Social. Fox, of course, is Trump’s first love – a love that is long and deep – despite the fact that Trump recently continued its founder, Rupert Murdoch, on a story published by the other point of sale in Murdoch, the Wall Street Journal, which provided alleged details of Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Fox and Newsmax have other things in common other than the love of the president, namely that they were both faced with massive legal problems for having reported on the unfounded affirmations distributed by his supporters. Fox and Newsmax faced disastrous proceedings by electoral sellers on the respective roles of networks in the propagation of conspiracy theories of voting machines during the 2020 presidential election. Newsmax has since settled with Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems, while Fox was recently installed with Dominion.