Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul has announced on Monday that he is canceling his DorecTv subscription after the company has announced to block One America News Network (OANN) from his service.
“.@DIRECTV is cancelling @OANN so I just cancelled my home Direct TV. Why give money to people who hate us?” The Senator wrote on Twitter
A Bloomberg scoop came out Friday reporting that DirecTV is dropping OANN after its contract expires in April 2022. The Pro-Trump TV network will be taken off air from DirecTV in spring.
Senator Paul is the second Republican official to denounce DirecTV and abandon its services. In his Saturday Save America rally in Florence, Arizona, President Trump announced that the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement is dropping AT&T.
“I’m not going to use the word, ‘boycott.’ I will not say, ‘Boycott AT&T!’ I promised Robert I will not do it. So I will not say, ‘Boycott them!'” President Trump said.
In a press release, DirecTV announced that the company decided to drop the TV network after “following a routine internal review.”
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A spokesperson for the company told NPR that they are looking at a variety of factors in deciding whether to renew their contract with the Pro-Trump network.
“OAN’s support for the ‘Big Lie’ that the 2020 election was stolen and the fact that it’s consistently giving airtime to conspiracy theories and misinformation on COVID-19, moves it from a participant in the marketplace of ideas to a peddler of toxic lies,” Public Knowledge legal director John Bergmayer said. The group was among figures advocating for cable and satellite providers to drop OANN.
