The far-right cable network One America News retracted a story and apologized Monday after it falsely claimed former President Donald Trump’s ex lawyer Michael Cohen was the one who had an affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels and secretly used it to “extort” the Trump Organization.
First, the regulation applies only to the broadcast medium, which means that the FCC has no power to enforce it against cable news networks, newspapers or newsletters (whether online or print), social media platforms, online-only streaming outlets or any other non-broadcast news platform.
Is OAN over the air? If they’re on cable, FCC probably doesn’t have this kind of jurisdiction.
(Same reason HBO and Skinemax can show nudity).
The FCC regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission
From here:
Damn. That’s a big run around of neutered power. Looks like all we have are civil suits.