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About a dozen OAN employees have quit in recent months as some staffers don't believe the stories run on air, report says

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Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile.Redeem nowSign up for our newsletter to get the news, trends and strategies that advertising and media pros want to know — delivered weekly to your inbox.Something is loading.Employees of the cable network One America News do not believe all of the claims that are aired on it, according to a report by .According to the Sunday report, about a dozen staffers have left the network since . The network for months aired, repeated, and speculated on former President Donald Trump's false claims about voter fraud in the 2020 election.There is no evidence to suggest any substantial fraud influenced the election. President Joe Biden ."Many people have raised concerns," Allysia Britton, a news producer who recently left the network, told The New York Times. "And the thing is, when people speak up about anything, you will get in trouble."Charles Herring, the president of OAN, confirmed to The Times that about 12 staffers had recently departed the network but said "many" of them were not high-level staffers.Marty Golingan, an OAN producer since 2016, said the "majority" of his colleagues at the network did not believe the claims of voter fraud that were being run on the network. He said he feared that his work at the network helped lead to the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and he described seeing someone at the riot holding a flag with the network's logo."I was like, OK, that's not good," Golingan said. "That's what happens when people listen to us."As , some media analysts have connected rhetoric espoused on conservative networks, including Fox News, OAN, and Newsmax, to the actions that took place in Washington on January 6.At a December 5 rally, Trump showed rallygoers a report from OAN that alleged hundreds of thousands of votes had disappeared in the state of Georgia, which Biden won. As USA Today reported, there is no evidence for such a claim.The network last year , even after the company sent a letter threatening a defamation lawsuit. But as Insider's Jacob Shamsian previously reported, the network in January from its website, including articles about Dominion, Smartmatic, and the pro-Trump lawyers Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, and Lin Wood.Herring defended the network's reporting to The New York Times."A review process with multiple checks is in place to ensure that news reporting meets the company's journalist standards," Herring said. "And, yes, we've had our fair share of mistakes, but we do our best to keep them to a minimum and learn from our missteps."Two former employees also interviewed by The Times said they believed the network's coverage was unbiased. In total, 16 current and former employees told The Times they believed the network had aired misleading or outright false information.Sign up for notifications from Insider! Stay up to date with what you want to know.Subscribe to push notificationsAn icon in the shape of a lightning bolt.Keep readingIt indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options.Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.

Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile.Redeem nowSign up for our newsletter to get the news, trends and strategies that advertising and media pros want to know — delivered weekly to your inbox.Something is loading.Employees of the cable network One America News do not believe all of the claims that are aired on it, according to a report by .According to the Sunday report, about a dozen staffers have left the network since . The network...

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About a dozen OAN employees have quit in recent months as some staffers don't believe the stories run on air, report says

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