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A graphic criticizing U.S. media consolidation and promoting the six-corporations ownership claim has continued to circulate online for years. Truth or Fiction published a fact-check examining the claim that six corporations own 90 percent of news media.
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- Documented · A graphic criticizing U.S. media consolidation and promoting the six-corporations ownership claim has continued to circulate online for years.
- Documented · Media ownership concentration in the United States is a real policy and industry topic that the viral six-corporations claim is often used to summarize.
- Documented · The six-corporations media-ownership claim is frequently presented in connection with criticism of media consolidation.
- Documented · Truth or Fiction published a fact-check examining the claim that six corporations own 90 percent of news media.
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- Contested · A widely circulated claim asserts that six corporations own approximately 90 percent of news media in the United States.
- Contested · Lists of the specific corporations named in the six-corporations claim have varied across versions of the circulating graphic and related posts.
- Contested · Online treatments of the six-corporations claim range from presentation as established fact to characterization as an oversimplified or outdated myth.
- Contested · The percentage figure of 90 percent attached to the six-corporations ownership claim is disputed in fact-checking coverage of the claim.