The hacker group “Anonymous” announced plans to take down the Fox News website on Nov. 5 over its coverage of the Occupy Wall Street Movement.
They are calling their effort Operation Fox Hunt and say that Fox News’ “continued right-wing, conservative propaganda can no longer be tolerated.”
“Anonymous” criticizes the website for belittling the Occupy Wall Street protesters by using words like “filthy, dirty and disgusting” to describe them and says the site must be shut down.
In addition to shutting down the Fox News website, “Anonymous” plans to launch its own propaganda campaign “to show them how it feels to be chastised.”
The message ends with the warning: “Fox News, your time has come.”
The left, which hasn’t had a protest movement like OWS in decades, is bristling at the coverage by Fox News that exposes the occupiers for what they really are. They are now using this threat by “Anonymous” in an effort to curtail the unfavorable coverage.
Fox News has obviously struck a nerve with the thin-skinned hackers at “Anonymous.”
Don Irvine is the chairman of Accuracy in Media and its sister organization Accuracy in Academia. As the son of Reed Irvine, who launched AIM in 1969, he developed an understanding of media bias at an early age, and has been actively involved with AIM for over 30 years.
