Fox News Sparks Outrage With Claim Biden Promoted Pedophilia With ‘Progress’ Flag
A day after labeling President Joe Biden a “wannabe dictator,” Fox News accused the Biden administration of promoting pedophilia by displaying the Progress Pride flag.
A recent story on FoxNews.com cited critics within the anti-trans movement to support its false claim that Biden flew a “controversial new transgender flag that promotes grooming and pedophilia.” In the piece, the right-wing news channel claims the flag, which was designed to include people of color and trans, intersex, and non-binary communities, was actually “an homage to the cult of pedophilia infecting many institutions.” Fox News quoted noted anti-trans activist Jaimee Michell of Gays Against Groomers, who claimed “the flag represents to us an ideology, a political statement of indoctrinating kids and trans kids and pushing kids to sterilize and mutilate themselves.” Fox News backed up their “pedophile flag” assertion with one source, a claim made in a TikTok by Black Guns Matter.
The piece later notes the TikTok has since been deleted. It also noted that accusations the flag was secretly designed to promote pedophilia have repeatedly been debunked.
The piece has generated widespread backlash online, with some noting that Fox News itself has promoted the “Progress” Pride flag.
