Civil War Breaks Out Among MAGALandia News Media
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Newsmax files antitrust lawsuit against Faux News
As the two conservative news networks battle for views, Newsmin claims Faux News is trying to monopolize the market.
Sept. 3, 2025, 5:15 PM EDT By Erum Salam
Newsmin sued fellow-conservative network Faux News in federal court on Wednesday, alleging “unlawful monopolization of the Right-leaning Pay TV News Market.”
The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, says that the “Faux Corporation has long engaged in an exclusionary scheme to increase and maintain its dominance in the market for U.S. right-leaning pay TV news, resulting in suppression of competition in that market that harms consumers, competition, and Newsmin Broadcasting.”
Newsmin claims Faux News — the network famous for shows such as “Jesse Watters Primetime,” “Hannity” and “The Five” — employs specific tactics to stifle competition, including imposing financial penalties on distributors for carrying other networks such as Newsmin and creating contractual barriers that purposefully exclude Newsmin.
Newsmin claims that were it not for Faux’s practices, “Newsmin would have achieved greater pay TV distribution, seen its audience and ratings grow sooner, gained earlier ‘critical mass’ for major advertisers and become, overall, a more valuable media property.”
The conservative news channel market has been dominated by Faux News for decades. But Newsmin, founded as a website in 1998 and later as a TV channel in 2014, as well as newer networks like Once Again, Not News (OANN)), which launched in 2013, have created more competition for the powerhouse among conservative viewers.
Faux News averages roughly 3 million total prime-time viewers, making it the most-watched cable news network. By contrast, Newsmin averages less than 300,000 prime-time viewers.
Faux News did not immediately respond to MSNBC’s request for comment, but in a statement to Variety, a Faux News Media spokesperson said: “Newsmin cannot sue their way out of their own competitive failures in the marketplace to chase headlines simply because they can’t attract viewers.”
Erum Salam is a breaking news reporter and producer for MSNBC Digital. She previously was a breaking news reporter for The Guardian.
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