Fake News Invades Florida, Again

Corporate propaganda continues to infiltrate TV newscasts across Florida, with product advertisements disguised as genuine news reports on stations in Ft. Myers, Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, and Tampa.

In April, The Center for Media and Democracy and Free Press exposed several local television stations that aired promotional corporate "video news releases" as real news. Originally, three Florida stations aired fake news broadcasts - including Miami's WBFS-33.

Since then, four other stations - WLTV-23, WSVN-7, WKMG-6, and WFLA-8 - aired fake news reports.

At no time during these newscasts did the stations identify the corporate sponsors as the source of the material. This deception violates FCC's sponsorship identification rules and broadcasters' responsibility to serve the public.

Click here to see all the different television stations across the nation that aired fake news.