Fox News Channel has apologized for displaying an on-screen graphic showing stock-market gains following assassinations and killings of black people.
Following the widely criticized graphic airing on"Special Report with Bret Baier" on Friday, the hashtag #FoxNewsIsRacist began trending on social media.
The conservative cable television news channel issued the apology on Saturday after receiving criticism over the use of the on-screen chart during a Friday broadcast of "Special Report with Bret Baier." The graphic displayed a bar graph to show the percentage of change in the S&P 500 one week after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968.; after the acquittal of police officers who beat Rodney King in Los Angeles in 1991; after the police shooting of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014; and after recent death in police custody of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Following the segment's airing, the graphic was widely criticized on social media and resulted in the hashtag #FoxNewsIsRacist. Bobby Rush, the Democratic representative from Illinois,Other news outlets have also recently pointed out market reactions following episodes of civil unrest, including
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