“For decades, Fox’s prolonged popularity has made it clear that authenticity is truly valuable when it comes to building credibility and audience loyalty,”Jacob L. Nelson writes. “Now, the network’s settlement with Dominion has revealed just how manipulative and insincere that authenticity can be.”
Jacob L. Nelson
Jacob Nelson is an assistant professor of communication at the University of Utah, and a fellow with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. He is the author of "Imagined Audiences: How Journalists Perceive and Pursue the Public" (Oxford University Press, 2021). Nelson's research explores the relationship between journalism and the public.