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Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gailan. Today, I'm once again joined by comedian and rising TikTok influencer, Maya May. Maya, welcome back.

Thank you. I'm excited to be here Reed though. The world of TikTok might just whisk be away so.

Well, if so, then I'll soldier on solo, but hopefully they'll give you the next 45 minutes or so anyway.

So Maya, today we're back again together for another round of questions and answers from our always thoughtful Lincoln Project community.

We've taken these questions from social media, emails, town halls. And so to those of you listening, if you have a question, don't be shy about asking.

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And Maya, let's get into it. First topic here, Maya is Fox News. Robin Ann asks on Instagram, asked, can Fox be forced to tell its viewers that it has been feeding them lies?

This is a great question, Maya, because I think it's important to understand how desperate Fox News is to keep its viewers inside the bubble. It's created for them.

And all of the noise and literally reality that's going on outside those airwaves 24 seven away from its viewers.

Is there any way to force them to talk about it? Well, I would say this is that I would assume that Fox News's lawyers are telling all of its on air talent.

Don't say word one about being sued by dominion voting or smartmatic, which is going to be another almost $3 billion

libel suit against Fox. And so they have to gin up and amp up the number of lies that they're telling not only because they want to avoid talking about the lawsuit.

But also they want to avoid desperately talking about what the lawsuit is producing, which is the honesty about how much Tucker Carlson hates Donald Trump, about how Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingram, Rupert and Lockwood Murdock.

They all knew that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, but they all went along with the lie because they were desperate to hold on to their viewers.

And so I think that the only way, Maya, that they'll probably be forced to say anything is at the end of a trial if a judge says Fox News, you must on the air, apologize to dominion, apologize to smartmatic and state unequivocally that you knew what you were saying was untrue.

And you said it anyway. Yeah. And truth be told, which it won't be, but let's say it were every single Fox viewer, I would say is going to look at that as a hostage video that they are being forced to say those things under duress.

I wouldn't be surprised if Tucker gave a little wink and it's like, that's my signal that I don't really mean the things that I say because the Fox News viewers are complicit in it just as much as the television personalities are like their celebrities.

And so they look up to them, they want them to lie to them. And so even if they were to come forward and say, Oh, we're telling you the truth now that we were lying then no one's buying it.

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