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/* Big Tech and Fox News */
The [[Fox News Channel]] seems to have colluded with Big Tech.
In January 2019, Fox News heaped praise on [[Microsoft]]'s [[NewsGuard]], a browser extension which disproportionately targets conservative and anti-establishment sources with poor ratings and then libels those sources as "fake news." Fox News, on the other hand, is considered a legitimate source of news.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/01/28/fox-news-promotes-microsofts-newsguard-blacklist-good-idea/</ref> [[Buzzfeed BuzzFeed News]] is also considered reputable, while even stories from [[The Daily Wire]] are frequently downgraded by NewsGuard.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcmTeiYvqu4</ref> Fox News permanently banned The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles in September of that year.[http://www.conservativehq.com/article/31075-michael-knowles-and-crumbling-conservatism-fox-news]
In the same month that the network profusely defended NewsGuard, their website asserted that a [[YouTube]] algorithm change very clearly designed to stifle independent content creators and to censor the [[Alternative Influence Network]], as reported by [[Breitbart News]] at the time,<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/01/28/youtube-doubles-down-will-censor-recommended-videos-to-stop-misinformation/</ref> was simply intended to direct audiences away from "conspiracy theories" and "misinformation."<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/tech/youtube-tweaks-algorithms-to-stop-recommending-conspiracy-videos</ref> According to [[Bloomberg News|Bloomberg Businessweek]], by July 2020, Fox News' YouTube channel gained tens of millions of views while even the channels of massive leftist corporate networks [[CNN]] and [[MSNBC]] declined in views.<ref>https://www.bloombergquint.com/businessweek/fox-news-youtube-channel-got-a-big-boost-from-algorithm-change</ref> In June 2020, [[Gavin McInnes]] and [[Stefan Molyneux]] were permanently banned from YouTube, which Fox News refrained from covering.
