Fox News Caught Using Meidas Research as They ATTACK US By Ben Meiselas Ben Meiselas and MeidasTouch Network May 2 Hi everyone. It’s Ben Meiselas, co-founder of the MeidasTouch Network. By now, I am sure you know about the relentless attacks against Meidas by Fox News and Trump. They want us destroyed and shut down. Don’t worry—we won’t let that happen. Thank you to our Substack subscribers here for helping the MeidasTouch Network grow. At the same time Fox News is attacking us, they appear to be leeching off our resources at the MeidasTouch Network and taking the work done by MeidasTouch producers and editors without giving us credit. For example, we’ve uncovered instances of Fox host Laura Ingraham using clips pulled by our researcher and senior digital editor, Acyn Torabi. Laura pretends she found certain clips herself and doesn’t credit us or Acyn. Since we’ve seen Laura engaging in these tactics before, we put a small watermark tag on our clips so we can see if she uses them in order to catch her. Sure enough, we caught her again red-handed. Take a look at her post yesterday. Look at the watermark I circled. So let me get this straight… Fox News and Laura Ingraham are trying to destroy MeidasTouch and shut us down—put us out of business. But, at the same time, they spend the entire day using our research, which they then manipulate for nefarious means. Do I have that right? And, at the same time, Fox’s executive producers whine to each other that Meidas gets more views than them—despite the fact that they are funded by billions of dollars, unlike Meidas, which has grown thanks to our Substack. That kind of feels like the way a sociopath would behave, doesn’t it? But then again, that’s what Trump and MAGA and Fox are. For sure, one of the reasons Trump and Fox want us gone is because of our protest coverage, which leads the nation. Yesterday, we hosted the great folks at the group Indivisible, who led the “Hands Off” protests, and they announced their next big protest plans on the MeidasTouch Network. They gave all of you in the Meidas Mighty a great shout-out for attending the protests and for getting the word out! No matter how much Trump and MAGA try to come at us, we will never stop covering the protests, and the shadow hearings, and the town halls. We are not afraid to cover the Trump-Epstein connections or Trump’s cognitive issues. We are not afraid to call Donald a sexual abuser, a felon, and a fraud who bankrupts businesses. We have built our coverage around fearlessness, and thanks to you, our platform is bigger than all the cable news networks and our podcast gets more downloads than all the right-wing podcasts combined. (Remember to add the MeidasTouch Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.) I want to take the time on this Friday—before I go make more videos—to thank you for all you do. There is no MeidasTouch without the Meidas Mighty. We saw record growth across all platforms in April, and we were the fastest-growing Substack in the world for the entire month thanks to you. We view the fact that we are the leader in independent news as a privilege, and we fight every day to meet the moment. Fox can threaten us and take our research, but we remain focused on what matters: fighting for democracy. Trump can try to shut us down and sue our hosts, but we remain undeterred. We will always meet the moment and put it all on the line to bring you the coverage you deserve. We ask that if you are not a subscriber to this Substack, that you subscribe today. It’s really important to help us grow. You help out the MeidasTouch Network immensely by subscribing. The cable news networks we beat in views are funded with billions of dollars, and they are all trying hard to knock us out. Help us start May—the month of my birthday, when I turn 40 on May 19—by becoming a subscriber today or gifting a subscription to people you know. Thanks for all your help, Meidas Mighty, and for all you do. Meidas+ is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.