One America News Network#Conspiracy theory about David Hogg

OAN was announced on March 14, 2013, by Herring Networks, Inc., an independent media company founded in 2003 by conservative businessman Robert Herring, Sr. The OAN channel originally debuted in partnership with The Washington Times, a conservative daily newspaper founded by the Unification Church from South Korea.{{cite press release|url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/marketing/2013/may/30/one-america-news-cable-news-network-announces-debu|title=One America News Cable News Network Announces Debut in Collaboration with The Washington Times|date=May 30, 2013|work=The Washington Times|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170608104214/https://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/marketing/2013/may/30/one-america-news-cable-news-network-announces-debu|archive-date=June 8, 2017|access-date=August 18, 2019}}{{Cite web|url = https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2013/03/14/herring-launches-conservative-news-channel/1987433/|title = Herring to launch conservative news channel|website = USA Today|access-date = November 17, 2021|archive-date = August 1, 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200801165035/https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2013/03/14/herring-launches-conservative-news-channel/1987433/|url-status = live}} Herring said in 2013 that under OAN's agreement with The Washington Times, the new network could use any Times content, but was not obligated to do so; he also said at the time that between 60 and 65 Herring Broadcasting employees spent "most of their days" on One America.{{Cite book|last=Wiedemann|first=Erik|editor-first1=Barry |editor-last1=Kernfeld |chapter-url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.j314200|chapter=Moseholm, Erik|date=2003|publisher=Oxford University Press|series=Oxford Music Online|doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.j314200|isbn=9781561592630 |access-date=February 16, 2021|archive-date=February 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210221015002/https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-2000314200|url-status=live}}

Herring told the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference that "Fox News has done a great job serving the center-right and independent audiences", but that the audience's alternative news sources lacked variety.{{cite news |last=Freedlander |first=David |date=March 14, 2013 |title=One America News Network, New Conservative Cable Channel, Sets Launch |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/one-america-news-network-new-conservative-cable-channel-sets-launch |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200406202255/https://www.thedailybeast.com/one-america-news-network-new-conservative-cable-channel-sets-launch |archive-date=April 6, 2020 |access-date=June 26, 2019 |work=The Daily Beast}}{{cite news |last=Hagey |first=Keach |date=March 14, 2013 |title=Herring Plans to Launch New Conservative News Network |url=https://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324392804578358743706989224 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190814151542/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324392804578358743706989224 |archive-date=August 14, 2019 |access-date=November 19, 2014 |work=The Wall Street Journal}}

Reuters reported in October 2021 that it had reviewed court documents showing the network was created in 2013 at the urging of executives of AT&T, which has since been the source of up to 90% of the network's revenues. In a 2020 deposition, a company accountant testified that lacking a contract with AT&T subsidiary DirecTV, the network's value "would be zero." Court documents showed the network promised to "cast a positive light" on AT&T during newscasts.

In July 2014, OAN relocated its news and production studios from the Washington Times building to 101 Constitution Avenue NW, near the Capitol.{{Cite web|date=June 5, 2014|title=One America News Network Relocates Washington, D.C. Bureau|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/one-america-news-network-relocates-washington-dc-bureau-262007801.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-02-16|website=PR Newswire|language=en|archive-date=July 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703074011/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/one-america-news-network-relocates-washington-dc-bureau-262007801.html}}

At the beginning of 2020, it was reported that Trump allies were looking into purchasing OAN.{{Cite news |last1=Chung |first1=Juliet |last2=Driebusch |first2=Corrie |last3=Ballhaus |first3=Rebecca |author-link3=Rebecca Ballhaus |date=January 10, 2020 |title=Trump Allies Explore Buyout of Conservative Channel Seeking to Compete With Fox News |work=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-allies-explore-buyout-of-conservative-news-channel-one-america-news-network-11578696767 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=January 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200112152021/https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-allies-explore-buyout-of-conservative-news-channel-one-america-news-network-11578696767 |archive-date=January 12, 2020}}

In November 2020, YouTube suspended OAN for one week and ended its ability to monetize its existing content as a first strike under its three-strike community guideline violation policy for advertising a false cure for COVID-19.

As of April 2021, its YouTube channel had close to 1.5 million subscribers.{{Cite news |last=Abrams |first=Rachel |date=April 18, 2021 |title=One America News Network Stays True to Trump |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/18/business/media/oan-one-america-trump.html |url-status=live |access-date=April 18, 2021 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=April 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418090435/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/18/business/media/oan-one-america-trump.html }} Approximately 150 employees worked at its San Diego headquarters.

DirecTV said in January 2022 that it would not renew its contract with Herring Networks, which expired in April 2022, affecting OAN and its sister channel AWE, which would be removed from DirecTV's satellite and U-verse TV services.{{Cite news |last=Reardon |first=Sophie |date=January 14, 2022 |title=DirecTV says it will not enter a new contract with OANN |work=CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/directv-oann-contract/ |access-date=January 14, 2022 |archive-date=January 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220117082110/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/directv-oann-contract/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Gerry |date=January 14, 2022 |title=DirecTV to Drop One America News in Blow to Conservative Channel |publisher=Bloomberg News |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-14/directv-to-drop-one-america-news-in-blow-to-conservative-channel |access-date=January 15, 2022 |archive-date=January 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116203935/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-14/directv-to-drop-one-america-news-in-blow-to-conservative-channel |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Murdock |first=Sebastian |date=2022-04-05 |title=DirecTV Officially Dumps Right-Wing Network OAN |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/directv-officially-dumps-right-wing-network-oan_n_624c56bae4b0d8266ab19ed3 |access-date=2022-04-05 |website=HuffPost |language=en}} In response, OAN host Dan Ball said that OAN "is now at war with AT&T" and urged viewers to dig up "dirt" on AT&T board chairman William Kennard.{{Cite news |last=Baragona |first=Justin |date=2022-01-18 |title=OAN Host Begs Viewers to Dig Up 'Dirt' on AT&T Chair After DirecTV Drops Network |language=en |work=The Daily Beast |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/oan-host-dan-ball-begs-viewers-to-dig-up-dirt-on-atandt-chair-after-directv-drops-network |access-date=2023-06-28 |archive-date=June 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603081210/https://www.thedailybeast.com/oan-host-dan-ball-begs-viewers-to-dig-up-dirt-on-atandt-chair-after-directv-drops-network |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Brodkin |first=Jon |date=2022-01-20 |title=OAN panics as DirecTV drops network, asks viewers to find "dirt" on AT&T chairman |url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/01/oan-panics-as-directv-drops-network-asks-viewers-to-find-dirt-on-att-chairman/ |access-date=2023-06-28 |website=Ars Technica |language=en-us |archive-date=April 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406163524/https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/01/oan-panics-as-directv-drops-network-asks-viewers-to-find-dirt-on-att-chairman/ |url-status=live }} The channels were dropped from DirecTV on April 4, 2022; some staff members left the network for other employment.{{Cite news |last=Baragona |first=Justin |date=2022-04-12 |title=Far-Right One America News Is in Existential Crisis Amid Mass Exodus |language=en |work=The Daily Beast |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/one-america-news-in-existential-crisis-amid-mass-exodus |access-date=2022-04-13 |archive-date=April 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220413204555/https://www.thedailybeast.com/one-america-news-in-existential-crisis-amid-mass-exodus |url-status=live }}

Verizon Fios, OAN's largest remaining carrier, notified its customers on July 21, 2022, that it could not come to terms to renew its contract with OAN and would remove the network from its service in nine days.{{cite news |last1=Baragona |first1=Justin |date=July 21, 2022 |title=Far-Right Channel One America News Officially Dropped by Last Major TV Carrier |work=The Daily Beast |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/far-right-channel-one-america-news-officially-dropped-by-verizon-fios |access-date=July 21, 2022 |archive-date=July 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220725195452/https://www.thedailybeast.com/far-right-channel-one-america-news-officially-dropped-by-verizon-fios |url-status=live }} August 1, 2022 was OAN's final day on cable or satellite, marking the end of OAN's availability on major carriers.{{cite web |last1=Roth |first1=Emma |date=24 July 2022 |title=One America News gets dumped by Verizon, the only major carrier it had left |url=https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/24/23276366/one-america-news-verizon-fios-dumped-major-carriers-oan |access-date=25 July 2022 |website=The Verge |archive-date=July 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220725094948/https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/24/23276366/one-america-news-verizon-fios-dumped-major-carriers-oan |url-status=live }} OAN commentator Pearson Sharp said on-air that OAN was dropped because Verizon is a "radical Marxist" corporation.{{cite news |date=July 25, 2022 |title=OAN complains about "Marxist" Verizon dropping OAN, tells viewers to cancel their subscription |work=Media Matters |url=https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/oan-complains-about-marxist-verizon-dropping-oan-tells-viewers-cancel |access-date=July 25, 2022 |archive-date=July 31, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220731035938/https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/oan-complains-about-marxist-verizon-dropping-oan-tells-viewers-cancel |url-status=live }}{{cite news|url=https://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-oans-chanel-rion-tears-into-america-hating-lesbian-pothead-brittney-griner-during-networks-last-day-on-cable/|title=WATCH: OAN's Chanel Rion Tears Into 'America-Hating Lesbian Pothead' Brittney Griner During Network's Last Day on Cable|last=Richman|first=Jackson|website=Mediaite|date=August 1, 2022|access-date=August 1, 2022|language=en|archive-date=August 11, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811155221/https://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-oans-chanel-rion-tears-into-america-hating-lesbian-pothead-brittney-griner-during-networks-last-day-on-cable/|url-status=live}}

In December 2024, following former Congressman Matt Gaetz's withdrawal from his nomination to United States Attorney General by Donald Trump due to allegations of sexual assault, it was announced that Gaetz would be joining OAN to host a new show every weekday starting in January 2025.{{Cite web |date=2024-12-10 |title=After withdrawing as attorney general nominee, Matt Gaetz lands a talk show on OANN television |url=https://apnews.com/article/gaetz-oann-talk-show-conservative-adac07541f20a797fbab9c8f8695128d |access-date=2024-12-13 |website=AP News |language=en}}

On May 7, 2025, Kari Lake announced that OAN will provide news coverage for Voice of America.{{cite news |last1=Gabbatt |first1=Adam |title=Embattled Voice of America to use newsfeed from hard-right network |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/07/voice-america-one-america-news |access-date=May 7, 2025 |work=The Guardian |date=May 7, 2025}}{{Cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/voice-of-america-one-america-news-kari-lake|title=MAGA outlet OAN to provide content for hollowed-out Voice of America, says Kari Lake|date=7 May 2025|website=CNN|last=Stelter|first=Brian|author-link=Brian Stelter}}

Shows airing on OAN include: Tipping Point with Kara McKinney, Real America with Dan Ball, Weekly Briefing with John Hines, Fine Point with Chanel Rion, and Nights with Chris Boyle.{{Cite web|title=Shows|url=https://www.oann.com/category/shows/|access-date=July 26, 2024|website=One America News Network|date=July 26, 2024}}

In August 2014, OAN launched the show On Point with Tomi Lahren. Many clips from the program went viral, and by 2015 Lahren had gained widespread attention for her commentaries. On August 19, 2015, Lahren aired her final show at OAN.{{Cite news|last=Bromwich|first=Jonah Engel|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/04/business/media/tomi-lahren-young-vocal-and-the-rights-rising-media-star.html|title=Tomi Lahren: Young, Vocal and the Right's Rising Media Star|date=December 4, 2016|work=The New York Times|access-date=June 21, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180127182035/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/04/business/media/tomi-lahren-young-vocal-and-the-rights-rising-media-star.html|archive-date=January 27, 2018|url-access=limited}}{{cite news|last=Wilson|first=Jason|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/23/tomi-lahren-conservative-white-power-barbie|title=The rise of Tomi Lahren, the media star lampooned as 'white power Barbie'|date=September 23, 2016|work=The Guardian|access-date=June 2, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180525151458/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/23/tomi-lahren-conservative-white-power-barbie|archive-date=May 25, 2018}} On the week of August 24, 2015 former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin guest-hosted a program on the network.{{cite news|last=Kirell|first=Andrew|url=https://www.mediaite.com/tv/rumor-alert-sarah-palin-returning-to-cable-news-at-one-america-news-network/|title=Sarah Palin Returning to Cable News at One America News Network|date=August 18, 2015|work=Mediaite|access-date=June 21, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170719233314/https://www.mediaite.com/tv/rumor-alert-sarah-palin-returning-to-cable-news-at-one-america-news-network/|archive-date=July 19, 2017}}

In 2019, the channel aired the Canadian television film Claws of the Red Dragon, which had signed Steve Bannon as its American distributor.{{Cite news|last=Chaffin|first=Joshua|url=https://www.ft.com/content/a1c7d8ae-f1c3-11e9-ad1e-4367d8281195|title=Steve Bannon turns Huawei saga into anti-China movie|date=October 19, 2019|work=Financial Times|url-access=subscription|access-date=February 25, 2020|archive-date=February 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225225138/https://www.ft.com/content/a1c7d8ae-f1c3-11e9-ad1e-4367d8281195|url-status=live}}

OAN is known for its pro-Donald Trump content, promotion of conspiracy theories such as election tampering in November 2020, and criticisms of mainstream media. OAN has described itself as one of the "greatest supporters" of Trump.{{cite news |last1=Axelrod |first1=Tal |title=Conservative outlet complains about lack of Trump shout-out at rally |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/436553-conservative-outlet-complains-about-lack-of-trump-shout-out-at-rally |access-date=April 27, 2020 |work=The Hill |date=March 29, 2019 |archive-date=April 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200427002114/https://thehill.com/homenews/media/436553-conservative-outlet-complains-about-lack-of-trump-shout-out-at-rally |url-status=live }} It has been described as a political propaganda outlet.{{Cite journal |last=Carter |first=Edward L. |date=2022-01-01 |title="Truth Is the Only Ground" How Journalism Contributes to Good Government |url=https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol61/iss1/19 |journal=BYU Studies Quarterly |volume=61 |issue=1 |issn=2167-8480 |quote=One America News Network on the right and Palmer Report on the left cannot be considered credible journalism organizations at all but rather political propaganda outlets. |access-date=July 31, 2022 |archive-date=May 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524104212/https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol61/iss1/19/ |url-status=live }}

Former producer Martin Golingan said in 2021, "The Herrings run OAN on this McDonald's business model where you keep the customer happy and the business runs itself. If the customers happen to be crazy conspiracy consumers, then that's what they're selling. They are grifters in the outrage culture".{{cite news |last=Shiffman |first=John |date=2021-10-07 |title=The tech entrepreneur who founded Trump's go-to TV news network |url=https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-oneamerica-founder/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220614222612/https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-oneamerica-founder/ |archive-date=June 14, 2022 |access-date=July 2, 2022 |publisher=Reuters}}

After the network's establishment, CEO Robert Herring started sending the news team must-run stories from far-right websites such as Breitbart News, InfoWars and The Gateway Pundit.

A former OAN producer testified in a defamation lawsuit against the network by former Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer that he and his colleagues were directed to use The Gateway Pundit as a source. A January 2021 email from the news director encouraged producers to read stories from The Gateway Pundit, The Blaze and The Epoch Times for inspiration.{{Cite news |last=Ellison |first=Sarah |date=2024-01-03 |title=A right-wing tale of Michigan election fraud had it all – except proof |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/03/gateway-pundit-conservative-news-election-fraud/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240110003556/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/03/gateway-pundit-conservative-news-election-fraud/ |archive-date=2024-01-10 |access-date=2024-05-11 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}

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OAN is pro-Trump.{{Cite news|last=Master|first=Cyra|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/344719-lewandowski-fired-from-pro-trump-cable-network-report|title=Lewandowski fired from pro-Trump cable network: report|date=July 31, 2017|work=The Hill|access-date=August 17, 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180620074200/https://thehill.com/homenews/media/344719-lewandowski-fired-from-pro-trump-cable-network-report|archive-date=June 20, 2018}}{{Cite news|last=Poulsen|first=Kevin|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-favorite-network-oann-embraces-russian-propaganda|title=Trump's New Favorite Network Embraces Russian Propaganda|date=April 4, 2019|work=The Daily Beast|access-date=August 17, 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190504213850/https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-favorite-network-oann-embraces-russian-propaganda|archive-date=May 4, 2019}}{{cite news|last1=Silverman|first1=Craig|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/carpe-donktum-oann-social-media-censorship|title=Trump's Favorite Meme-Maker Adopted A Fake Name To Go On Trump's Favorite TV Network|date=July 15, 2019|work=BuzzFeed News|access-date=August 17, 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190807125537/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/carpe-donktum-oann-social-media-censorship|archive-date=August 7, 2019|last2=Massler|first2=Jeremy|author-link=Craig Silverman}} The father of Charles Herring, Robert Herring Sr., founder and CEO of the network, has ordered producers to promote pro-Trump stories, anti-Clinton stories, and anti-abortion stories and to minimize stories about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Herring prohibited the network from running stories about polls that did not show Trump in the lead during the 2016 election. Former producer Marissa Gonzales said in 2021, "If there was any story involving Trump, we had to only focus on either the positive information or basically create positive information. It was never, never the full truth."

During the 2016 presidential campaign, the channel ran a special titled Betrayal at Benghazi: The Cost of Hillary Clinton's Dereliction and Greed. Herring, the owner of the channel, sent his producers a report that falsely claimed that Hillary Clinton had a brain tumor and asking them to check up on it. He also shared a report with producers claiming that Planned Parenthood had promoted abortion and ordered them to minimize coverage of Pope Francis's US visit owing to the Pope's calls for action on global warming. Herring also repeatedly ordered his producers not to cover stories pertaining to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

According to former and current employees at the channel as well as internal e-mails, by July 2017 the executives of the channel had directed the channel to "scuttle stories about police shootings, encourage antiabortion stories, minimize coverage of Russian aggression, and steer away from the new president's troubles."

In October 2017, the channel claimed without evidence that a "report" had been published that showed "U.K. Crime Rises 13% Annually Amid Spread of Radical Islamic Terror".{{Cite web|url=https://snopes.com/trump-uk-terrorism/|title=Fact Check: Is an Increase in Recorded Crime in England and Wales Linked to 'Radical Islamic Terror'?|last=MacGuill|first=Dan|date=October 20, 2017|publisher=Snopes|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200406204636/https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-uk-terrorism/|archive-date=April 6, 2020|access-date=October 21, 2017}} Trump later repeated this falsehood, suggesting that he learned of it from OAN.{{Cite news|last=Waterson|first=Jim|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/donald-trump-claims-increased-uk-crime-is-due-to-islamic|title=Donald Trump Has Linked A Rise In UK Crime With Islamic Terror, Which Statisticians Have Not|date=October 20, 2017|work=BuzzFeed News|access-date=October 21, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723004131/https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/donald-trump-claims-increased-uk-crime-is-due-to-islamic?utm_term=.qbaX2MrDr|archive-date=July 23, 2018}}

In June 2017, OAN was granted a permanent seat in the White House's James Brady briefing room.{{cite news|last=Gold|first=Hadas|url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2017/06/30/conservative-outlets-gain-white-house-seats-240152|title=Conservative outlets get more official seats in the White House briefing room|date=June 30, 2017|work=Politico|access-date=August 17, 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723004122/https://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2017/06/30/conservative-outlets-gain-white-house-seats-240152|archive-date=July 23, 2018|publisher=Capitol News Company}} The network's Chief White House Correspondent, Trey Yingst, was one of the top five most called-upon reporters covering the Trump administration.{{cite web|url=https://www.mediamatters.org/msnbc/study-sean-spicers-first-48-press-briefings|title=Study: Sean Spicers First 48 Press Briefings|last=Savillo|first=Rob|date=May 30, 2017|publisher=Media Matters for America|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217200454/https://www.mediamatters.org/msnbc/study-sean-spicers-first-48-press-briefings|archive-date=December 17, 2019|access-date=August 17, 2019}} Trump has been repeatedly called for questions from OAN during press conferences, including in February 2017 when Yingst asked the president about his campaign's contacts with the Russian government.{{cite web|url=https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2017/this-23-year-old-asks-the-white-house-tough-questions-for-one-of-americas-most-conservative-networks-update/|title=This 23-year-old asks the White House tough questions for one of America's most conservative networks|last=Funke|first=Daniel|date=August 18, 2017|publisher=Poynter Institute for Media Studies|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824010458/https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2017/this-23-year-old-asks-the-white-house-tough-questions-for-one-of-americas-most-conservative-networks-update/|archive-date=August 24, 2019|access-date=August 17, 2019}} Also in February 2017, OAN was invited to a network lunch with Trump.{{cite news|last=Kludt|first=Tom|url=https://money.cnn.com/2017/02/27/media/donald-trump-regional-media/index.html|title=Trump meeting with regional media outlets|date=February 27, 2017|access-date=February 27, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924022153/https://money.cnn.com/2017/02/27/media/donald-trump-regional-media/index.html|archive-date=September 24, 2017|publisher=CNN}} In August 2017, Trump praised OAN, saying: "It's a great network". In response, OAN CEO Robert Herring said that OAN considers itself a tough but fair presence in the White House press corps.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/president-one-america-news-network-says-hes-not-surprised-by-trump-praise-1033558|title=One America News Network Executive Says He's Not Surprised by Trump Praise|last=Barr|first=Jeremy|date=August 28, 2017|work=The Hollywood Reporter|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170930180029/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/president-one-america-news-network-says-hes-not-surprised-by-trump-praise-1033558|archive-date=September 30, 2017|access-date=August 17, 2019}}

OAN supported the Trump administration's revocation of CNN reporter Jim Acosta's press credentials; most major media outlets, including the conservative Fox News, opposed this decision. In a statement, Robert Herring attacked Fox News, saying he "can't believe Fox is on the other side."{{Cite news|last=Breuninger|first=Kevin|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/16/oann-backs-trump-in-lawsuit-for-revoking-cnn-reporters-press-pass.html|title=Conservative cable network backs White House in lawsuit for revoking 'rude' CNN reporter Jim Acosta's press pass|date=November 15, 2018|access-date=August 17, 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425061323/https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/16/oann-backs-trump-in-lawsuit-for-revoking-cnn-reporters-press-pass.html|archive-date=April 25, 2019|publisher=CNBC}}{{Cite news|last=Samuels|first=Brett|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/416954-conservative-outlet-one-america-news-files-brief-in-support-of-white-house-in|title=Conservative outlet One America News files brief in support of White House in CNN legal battle|date=November 15, 2018|work=The Hill|access-date=August 17, 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330160734/https://thehill.com/homenews/media/416954-conservative-outlet-one-america-news-files-brief-in-support-of-white-house-in|archive-date=March 30, 2019}}{{cite news|last=Sykes|first=Michael|url=https://www.axios.com/one-america-news-network-trump-cnn-jim-acosta-35f2855b-a9c8-404d-a2b9-33c54812422c.html|title=Fox News competitor OANN backs Trump White House against CNN|date=November 16, 2018|work=Axios|access-date=August 17, 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200406210250/https://www.axios.com/one-america-news-network-trump-cnn-jim-acosta-35f2855b-a9c8-404d-a2b9-33c54812422c.html|archive-date=April 6, 2020}}

Rudy Giuliani has promoted conspiracy theories related to the Trump–Ukraine scandal on OAN.{{cite news|last=Collins|first=Sean|date=December 16, 2019|title=Giuliani continues conspiracy theory with new "evidence" that the Bidens committed "multiple crimes"|work=Vox|url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/12/16/21024076/impeachment-giuliani-trump-biden-conspiracy-theory-ukraine-burisma|url-status=live|access-date=April 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200115221757/https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/12/16/21024076/impeachment-giuliani-trump-biden-conspiracy-theory-ukraine-burisma|archive-date=January 15, 2020}}{{cite news|author=Jong-Fast|first=Molly|date=January 30, 2020|title=One America News Network, Trump's New Favorite, Is a Bore|work=The Daily Beast|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/one-america-news-network-trumps-new-favorite-is-a-bore|url-status=live|access-date=April 6, 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200406211135/https://www.thedailybeast.com/one-america-news-network-trumps-new-favorite-is-a-bore|archive-date=April 6, 2020}}{{cite news|last=Lemon|first=Jason|date=January 26, 2020|title=Fox News Host Jeanine Pirro Confronts Giuliani to Reveal 'Evidence' of Biden's Alleged 'Corruption'|work=Newsweek|url=https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-host-jeanine-pirro-confronts-giuliani-reveal-evidence-bidens-alleged-corruption-1484066|url-status=live|access-date=April 6, 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200406211438/https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-host-jeanine-pirro-confronts-giuliani-reveal-evidence-bidens-alleged-corruption-1484066|archive-date=April 6, 2020}}

On January 12, 2020, an OAN broadcast promoted debunked conspiracy theories alleging illegal wiretapping of Trump.{{cite web|url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fbi-illegal-wiretap-trump-apology/|title=Did FBI Say It Illegally Wiretapped Donald Trump and Apologize For It?|last=MacGuill|first=Dan|date=January 15, 2020|publisher=Snopes|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200406215736/https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fbi-illegal-wiretap-trump-apology/|archive-date=April 6, 2020|access-date=April 6, 2020}} OAN broadcasts all of Trump's speeches uninterrupted.

In August 2020, OAN tweeted a promotion for a television segment entitled "America Under Siege: The Attempt to Overthrow President Trump." The tweet asserted that ongoing demonstrations in the aftermath of the George Floyd killing constituted a "coup attempt" that was "led by a well funded network of anarchists trying to take down the President." Trump retweeted the message.

On February 11, 2021, after Trump had left office, OAN aired a "tribute to his accomplishments" set to a reading of Rudyard Kipling's poem "If—". The video was credited to Harrison Hill Smith, an InfoWars contributor.{{Cite web|last=Woodward|first=Alex|date=2021-02-12|title=Far-right network OAN airs Trump 'tribute' video set to Rudyard Kipling poem|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-impeachment-trial-oan-infowars-b1801230.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-impeachment-trial-oan-infowars-b1801230.html |archive-date=May 24, 2022 |url-access=subscription|url-status=live|access-date=2021-02-21|website=The Independent|language=en}}

In March 2024, the network promoted a false story claiming that Michael Cohen was the one who had carried out an affair with Stormy Daniels and that he had used it to "extort" the Trump Organization. The network reached a legal settlement with Cohen in April, acknowledging that the original story was false.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/29/business/oan-retracts-michael-cohen-stormy-daniels|title=Far-right network OAN retracts false story about Michael Cohen affair with Stormy Daniels|date=April 30, 2024|access-date=April 30, 2024|website=CNN|last=Cohen|first=Marshall|archive-date=April 29, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240429202228/https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/29/business/oan-retracts-michael-cohen-stormy-daniels/|url-status=live}}

{{further|Roy Moore sexual misconduct allegations}}

After The Washington Post reported in November 2017 allegations that Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore had made unwanted sexual advances toward teenagers when he was in his thirties, OAN "became a source of both positive coverage and stories that could cast doubt on his accusers."{{Cite news|last=Weigel|first=David|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/12/12/roy-moore-and-friends-wrap-up-a-campaign-against-the-opposition-party-the-press/|title=Roy Moore and friends wrap up a campaign against 'the opposition party'—the press|date=December 12, 2017|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=December 13, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331022130/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/12/12/roy-moore-and-friends-wrap-up-a-campaign-against-the-opposition-party-the-press/|archive-date=March 31, 2019|url-access=limited}} In November 2017, OAN aired a segment citing a false rumor by an anonymous Twitter account that The Washington Post had offered $1,000 to Roy Moore's accusers.{{Cite news|last=Freed|first=Benjamin|url=https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/11/14/hoax-robocall-going-around-alabama-claims-washington-post-seeking-information-roy-moore/|title=A Hoax Robocall Claiming to Be From the Washington Post Offers Cash for Roy Moore Dirt|date=November 14, 2017|work=Washingtonian|access-date=August 17, 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180325174303/https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/11/14/hoax-robocall-going-around-alabama-claims-washington-post-seeking-information-roy-moore/|archive-date=March 25, 2018}}{{Cite news|last1=Ackerman|first1=Spencer|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/troll-smearing-roy-moores-accuser-stole-dead-seals-identity|title=The Troll Smearing Roy Moore's Accuser Stole a Dead Navy SEAL's Identity|date=November 14, 2017|work=The Daily Beast|access-date=August 17, 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20171114233137/https://www.thedailybeast.com/troll-smearing-roy-moores-accuser-stole-dead-seals-identity|archive-date=November 14, 2017|last2=Collins|first2=Ben|last3=Cox|first3=Joseph|last4=Woodruff|first4=Betsy}}{{Cite news|last=Porter|first=Tom|url=https://www.newsweek.com/roy-moore-supporters-spreading-conspiracy-theories-accusers-712117|title=Roy Moore's supporters are spreading fake news about the women who accused him of sexual misconduct|date=November 15, 2017|work=Newsweek|access-date=November 30, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180602082342/https://www.newsweek.com/roy-moore-supporters-spreading-conspiracy-theories-accusers-712117|archive-date=June 2, 2018}} OAN described the tweet as a "report" and described the tweeter as a "former Secret Service agent and Navy veteran". The Twitter source had a history of tweeting falsehoods and conspiracy theories; the Twitter account had also made repeated and inconsistent lies about its identity, including appropriating the identity of a Navy serviceman who died in 2007. After it was revealed that the story was a hoax, OAN did not retract its report.

During his Senate campaign, Roy Moore cited OAN when he defended himself against the accusations, including an OAN story that alleged his "Accusers Have Ties to Drug Dealers & Washington Post".{{Cite news|last=Sharp|first=John|url=https://www.al.com/news/2017/11/roy_moore_speaking_in_theodore.html|title='All the girls are lying?' man yells at Roy Moore in church|date=November 29, 2017|work=AL.com|access-date=November 30, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200406212156/https://www.al.com/news/2017/11/roy_moore_speaking_in_theodore.html|archive-date=April 6, 2020}}{{Cite news|last=Lisi|first=Brian|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/roy-moore-blames-lgbt-community-ruin-campaign-article-1.3667786|title=Roy Moore leading in poll, blames LGBT community for 'conspiracy'|date=November 30, 2017|work=Daily News|access-date=November 30, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200406212845/https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/roy-moore-blames-lgbt-community-ruin-campaign-article-1.3667786|archive-date=April 6, 2020|location=New York}}{{Cite news|last=Stableford|first=Dylan|url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/roy-moore-accuser-pens-open-letter-immorality-end-171226988.html|title=Accuser's open letter to Roy Moore: 'Where does your immorality end?'|date=November 29, 2017|work=Yahoo! News|access-date=November 30, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190118054041/http://www.yahoo.com/news/roy-moore-accuser-pens-open-letter-immorality-end-171226988.html|archive-date=January 18, 2019}}

During the night of the Alabama Senate election, OAN announced that Moore had swept the election "by a large margin" when in actuality Moore had lost the race. In its announcement, the network cited "unofficial polling", and the news anchor extended OAN CEO Robert Herring's congratulations to Moore on having run a "fine campaign." OAN's website also published an erroneous article claiming Moore had won "despite attacks from Democrats about unverified allegations."{{Cite news|last=Bowden|first=John|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/365040-conservative-news-outlet-called-alabama-race-for-moore|title=Conservative news outlet called Alabama race for Moore|date=December 14, 2017|work=The Hill|access-date=December 15, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180731190717/https://thehill.com/homenews/media/365040-conservative-news-outlet-called-alabama-race-for-moore|archive-date=July 31, 2018}} During election night, OAN also reported "a number of people have been caught trying to sneak into voting booths and vote illegally"; however, Alabama Secretary of State's office said it had no credible reports of voter fraud.{{Cite news|last=Weigel|first=David|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/12/14/roy-moore-refuses-to-concede-as-some-supporters-push-stories-of-voter-fraud/|title=White House urges Roy Moore to concede, as supporters look for evidence of 'voter fraud'|date=December 14, 2017|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=December 15, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200406213324/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/12/14/roy-moore-refuses-to-concede-as-some-supporters-push-stories-of-voter-fraud/|archive-date=April 6, 2020|url-access=limited}}

{{further|Stoneman Douglas High School shooting#Conspiracy theories, disinformation, and harassment}}

In February 2018, one of the hosts on OAN tweeted a conspiracy theory that David Hogg, a 17-year-old survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, had been coached to speak against Trump by, and was "running cover" for, his retired FBI agent father.{{Cite news|last=Smith|first=Allan|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/david-hogg-florida-school-shooting-russian-bots-attack-2018-2|title=Russian bots zeroed in on a survivor of the Florida school shooting who's been targeted by far-right conspiracy theorists|date=February 21, 2018|work=Business Insider|access-date=August 17, 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180516230915/https://www.businessinsider.com/david-hogg-florida-school-shooting-russian-bots-attack-2018-2|archive-date=May 16, 2018}}{{cite news|last=Kirell|first=Andrew|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-jr-likes-conspiracy-theory-about-florida-shooting-survivors-ex-fbi-dad|title=Donald Trump Jr. 'Likes' Conspiracy Theory About Florida Shooting Survivor's Ex-FBI Dad|date=February 20, 2018|work=The Daily Beast|access-date=August 17, 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200406214115/https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-jr-likes-conspiracy-theory-about-florida-shooting-survivors-ex-fbi-dad|archive-date=April 6, 2020}} Donald Trump Jr. "liked" the OAN host's tweet. The younger Hogg responded, describing the conspiracy theory to BuzzFeed News as "immature, rude, and inhuman."{{Cite news|last1=Nashrulla|first1=Tasneem|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/donald-trump-jr-conspiracy-theory-florida-shooting-survivor|title=Donald Trump Jr. Liked Tweets Promoting A Conspiracy Theory About A Florida Shooting Survivor|date=February 20, 2018|work=BuzzFeed News|access-date=August 17, 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190304151732/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/donald-trump-jr-conspiracy-theory-florida-shooting-survivor|archive-date=March 4, 2019|last2=Smidt|first2=Remy}}

In April 2018, while on an al-Assad regime-led tour of the area of the Douma chemical attack, an OAN correspondent claimed there was no evidence that a chemical attack had occurred.{{cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/right-wing-tv-network-no-evidence-of-syria-chemical-attack|title=Right-Wing TV Network: 'No Evidence' of Syria Chemical Attack|date=April 16, 2018|work=The Daily Beast|access-date=April 19, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200406214456/https://www.thedailybeast.com/right-wing-tv-network-no-evidence-of-syria-chemical-attack|archive-date=April 6, 2020}} The correspondent said, "Not one of the people that I spoke to in that neighborhood said that they had seen anything or heard anything about a chemical attack on that day" and that residents "loved Bashar al-Assad."

In May 2019, OAN published a report claiming that the White Helmets had admitted to staging fake chemical weapons attacks intended to put blame on the Assad regime. OAN referred to the humanitarian organization, which is partly funded by the US State Department, as "terrorist-linked". The Daily Beast described this story as a smear that could be traced directly as Russian disinformation. A CNN report about declassified intelligence regarding Russian propaganda also said the OAN report had spread Russian propaganda and falsehoods, while quoting an intelligence official who stressed that Western targets of Russian propaganda are often "unaware who is essentially seeding these narratives".{{Cite web |last=Lillis |first=Katie Bo |date=2023-08-25 |title=Newly declassified US intel claims Russia is laundering propaganda through unwitting Westerners {{!}} CNN Politics |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/25/politics/us-intel-russia-propaganda/index.html |access-date=2023-08-26 |website=CNN |language=en |archive-date=August 26, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230826160154/https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/25/politics/us-intel-russia-propaganda/index.html |url-status=live }}

Alt-right conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec was employed by OAN as a political correspondent from 2018{{Cite magazine|last=Sperling|first=Nicole|date=July 20, 2018|title=Disney Fires Guardians of the Galaxy Director James Gunn|magazine=Vanity Fair|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/07/disney-fires-guardians-of-the-galaxy-director-james-gunn-who-apologizes-for-sensitive-tweets|url-status=live|access-date=August 18, 2019|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190329020543/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/07/disney-fires-guardians-of-the-galaxy-director-james-gunn-who-apologizes-for-sensitive-tweets|archive-date=March 29, 2019|quote=Jack Posobiec, an on-air reporter for the conservative channel One America News Network}} to 2021.{{Cite web|last=Baragona|first=Justin|date=2021-05-20|title=Notorious Pizzagater Jack Posobiec Leaves OAN for Conservative Youth Group Turning Point USA|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/notorious-pizzagater-jack-posobiec-leaves-oan-for-conservative-youth-group-turning-point-usa|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-24|website=The Daily Beast|language=en|archive-date=May 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520171541/https://www.thedailybeast.com/notorious-pizzagater-jack-posobiec-leaves-oan-for-conservative-youth-group-turning-point-usa}} Posobiec was a prominent proponent of the Pizzagate and murder of Seth Rich conspiracy theories.{{cite web|url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-officials-iran-policy/|title=Were Ex-Obama Officials 'Caught Advising Iran How to Defeat US Foreign Policy'?|last=MacGuill|first=Dan|date=January 7, 2020|publisher=Snopes|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200406214758/https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-officials-iran-policy/|archive-date=April 6, 2020|access-date=January 11, 2020}}

In September 2018, Posobiec interviewed a pro-Hitler online poster known as Microchip on OAN without indicating that person's affiliations, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC said the two men had worked together in spreading disinformation for several years, including the false claims propagated in Pizzagate.{{cite news|last=Hayden|first=Michael Edison|date=July 23, 2020|title=Jack Posobiec Interviewed a Pro-Hitler Disinformation Poster on One America News Network|work=Southern Poverty Law Center|url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/07/23/jack-posobiec-interviewed-pro-hitler-disinformation-poster-one-america-news-network|access-date=December 30, 2020|archive-date=February 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210219213355/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/07/23/jack-posobiec-interviewed-pro-hitler-disinformation-poster-one-america-news-network|url-status=live}} In 2020, during the George Floyd protests in Buffalo, New York, Posobiec falsely reported and promoted another unsubstantiated conspiracy theory regarding pipe bombs.

{{further|Mueller special counsel investigation|Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections}}

OAN is known for downplaying threats posed to the United States by Russia. According to a former OAN producer, on his first day at OAN he was told, "Yeah, we like Russia here."{{cite news|last=Poulsen|first=Kevin|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-hell-of-working-at-trumps-new-favorite-tv-channel-one-america-news-network|title=The Hell of Working at Trump's New Favorite Network|date=May 18, 2019|work=The Daily Beast|access-date=December 16, 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190531160951/https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-hell-of-working-at-trumps-new-favorite-tv-channel-one-america-news-network|archive-date=May 31, 2019}} One of OAN's reporters, Kristian Brunovich Rouz, simultaneously works for the Russian propaganda outlet and news agency Sputnik, which is state-owned; when Rouz runs favorable segments on OAN that relate to Russia, OAN does not disclose that he also works for Sputnik.{{Cite news|last=Poulsen|first=Kevin|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/oan-trumps-new-favorite-channel-employs-kremlin-paid-journalist|title=Trump's New Favorite Channel Employs Kremlin-Paid Journalist|date=July 22, 2019|work=The Daily Beast|access-date=August 7, 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190722114201/https://www.thedailybeast.com/oan-trumps-new-favorite-channel-employs-kremlin-paid-journalist|archive-date=July 22, 2019}}{{cite news |last1=Blake |first1=Aaron |title=The frequent overlap between Trump's conspiracy theories and Russian propaganda |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/09/frequent-overlap-between-trumps-conspiracy-theories-russian-propaganda/|access-date=June 10, 2020 |newspaper=The Washington Post|date=June 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200609175632/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/09/frequent-overlap-between-trumps-conspiracy-theories-russian-propaganda/|archive-date=June 9, 2020}}{{cite news|last=Grynbaum|first=Michael M.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/article/oann-trump.html|title=One America News, the Network That Spreads Conspiracies to the West Wing|work=The New York Times|date=June 9, 2020|access-date=June 10, 2020|archive-date=June 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610003531/https://www.nytimes.com/article/oann-trump.html|url-status=live}} Rouz compiled a wholly fabricated story that OAN ran in 2017, which alleged that Hillary Clinton's political action committee secretly gave $800,000 to "antifa."{{cite news|last=Breland|first=Ali|date=June 9, 2020|title=Meet the Propagandists and Conspiracy Theorists Behind the One America News Network|work=Mother Jones|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/06/one-america-news-network-staff/|url-status=live|access-date=June 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611070942/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/06/one-america-news-network-staff/|archive-date=June 11, 2020}} In May 2020, Rouz created a segment for OAN in which he claimed "mounting evidence of a globalist conspiracy" involving the Clintons, Soros, Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci, and the Chinese government. No evidence exists for any of this.

In September 2019, OAN parent Herring Networks sued MSNBC host Rachel Maddow (as well as Comcast, MSNBC and NBCUniversal Media) for $10 million in federal court, after Maddow said the network "literally [is] paid Russian propaganda" on her July 22, 2019 program (when she referred to a Daily Beast article identifying Rouz as working for Sputnik).{{Cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rachel-maddow-sued-by-one-america-news-for-10-million-in-defamation-case/|title=Rachel Maddow sued for $10 million by One America News in defamation case|date=September 10, 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191108001232/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rachel-maddow-sued-by-one-america-news-for-10-million-in-defamation-case/|archive-date=November 8, 2019|publisher=CBS News|agency=Associated Press}} The court dismissed the suit, finding the claim was not defamation, but that a "reasonable viewer" would recognize it as a reasonable summation of the article published by The Daily Beast.{{cite web|last=Concha|first=Joe|date=May 23, 2020|title=Judge dismisses One America News defamation lawsuit against Rachel Maddow|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/499294-judge-dismisses-one-america-news-defamation-lawsuit-against-rachel-maddow|access-date=June 11, 2020|website=The Hill|archive-date=June 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611020640/https://thehill.com/homenews/media/499294-judge-dismisses-one-america-news-defamation-lawsuit-against-rachel-maddow|url-status=live}}{{cite web | last=Maddaus | first=Gene | title=Rachel Maddow Wins Dismissal of OAN Defamation Lawsuit | website=Variety | date=May 22, 2020 | url=https://variety.com/2020/biz/news/rachel-maddow-oan-defamation-dismissed-1234614682/ | access-date=June 11, 2020 | archive-date=June 12, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612154137/https://variety.com/2020/biz/news/rachel-maddow-oan-defamation-dismissed-1234614682/ | url-status=live }} In February 2021, Herring Networks was ordered to pay Maddow and MSNBC $250,000 legal fees in an anti-SLAPP ruling. OAN's appeal of the ruling was denied by a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in August 2021. The panel decided that Maddow's statement was "an obvious exaggeration, cushioned within an undisputed news story", and thus not defamation.{{Cite web|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/568213-oan-loses-appeal-in-defamation-lawsuit-against-rachel-maddow|title=OAN loses appeal in defamation lawsuit against Rachel Maddow|first=Celine|last=Castronuovo|date=August 17, 2021|website=The Hill|access-date=August 17, 2021|archive-date=August 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819135701/https://thehill.com/homenews/media/568213-oan-loses-appeal-in-defamation-lawsuit-against-rachel-maddow|url-status=dead}}

In 2019, OAN hired Chanel Rion as a correspondent.{{cite magazine |last1=Dickson |first1=E. J. |title=How Far Will Chanel Rion Go For Trump? |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/oan-chanel-rion-trump-correspondent-1003975/ |access-date=13 November 2020 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=25 September 2020 |archive-date=November 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113155827/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/oan-chanel-rion-trump-correspondent-1003975/ |url-status=live }} Rion previously worked as a political cartoonist, promoted murder of Seth Rich conspiracy theories, and wrote an anti-feminist children's book; Rion also praised a book by a Holocaust denier.{{cite web|url=https://www.mediamatters.org/seth-rich-conspiracy-theory/one-america-news-network-hires-seth-rich-conspiracy-theorist-chanel|title=Pro-Trump network hires Seth Rich conspiracy theorist who promoted a book by a Holocaust denier|last=Hananoki|first=Eric|date=May 15, 2019|publisher=Media Matters for America|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200319184741/https://www.mediamatters.org/seth-rich-conspiracy-theory/one-america-news-network-hires-seth-rich-conspiracy-theorist-chanel|archive-date=March 19, 2020|access-date=March 19, 2020}} In October 2019, she claimed without evidence that former FBI lawyer Lisa Page and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe were involved in an affair. OAN later retracted the story.{{Cite news |last=Farhi |first=Paul |date=April 1, 2020 |title=OANN threatened with removal from White House press room after correspondent Chanel Rion makes unauthorized appearances |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/oann-is-booted-from-white-house-press-room-after-correspondent-chanel-rion-makes-second-unauthorized-appearance/2020/04/01/ae27e19a-7439-11ea-85cb-8670579b863d_story.html |url-status=live |url-access=limited |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200402165741/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/oann-is-booted-from-white-house-press-room-after-correspondent-chanel-rion-makes-second-unauthorized-appearance/2020/04/01/ae27e19a-7439-11ea-85cb-8670579b863d_story.html |archive-date=April 2, 2020}}

In January 2020, OAN named Rion its chief White House correspondent. In April 2020, Rion was expelled from the White House Correspondents' Association and her formal seat was removed for flagrantly violating newly implemented social distancing rules in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room. Despite this, Rion has boasted she was personally invited to attend by the Trump White House's press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, a day after the ban.{{cite news|last=Ellefson|first=Lindsey|url=https://www.thewrap.com/oanns-chanel-rion-says-white-house-press-secretary-stephanie-grisham-invited-her-back-to-briefing-room/|title=OANN's Chanel Rion Says White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham Invited Her Back to Briefing Room|work=TheWrap|date=April 2, 2020|access-date=June 10, 2020|archive-date=June 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610142559/https://www.thewrap.com/oanns-chanel-rion-says-white-house-press-secretary-stephanie-grisham-invited-her-back-to-briefing-room/|url-status=live}}

OAN has run stories falsely claiming that George Soros, a Hungarian-born American philanthropist, collaborated with the Nazis when he was a 14-year-old. The network has also accused Soros of funding migrant caravans to the United States.

During a report from Ukraine with Rudy Giuliani, in December 2019, OAN correspondent Chanel Rion claimed without evidence that Soros had shown up at the Kyiv airport with "human Dobermans in little black Mercedes" to find them. The claim was ridiculed in Ukrainian and American media.{{cite news|last=Talant|first=Bermet|url=https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/right-wing-tv-channel-offers-improbable-account-of-giulianis-visit-to-kyiv.html|title=Right-wing TV channel offers improbable account of Giuliani's visit to Kyiv|date=December 9, 2019|work=Kyiv Post|access-date=January 26, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200406211703/https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/right-wing-tv-channel-offers-improbable-account-of-giulianis-visit-to-kyiv.html|archive-date=April 6, 2020|url-access=limited}}{{Cite news|last=Bateson|first=Ian|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/27/what-rudy-giulianis-version-reality-looks-like-ukraine/|title=What Rudy Giuliani's version of reality looks like from Ukraine|date=December 27, 2019|newspaper=The Washington Post|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20191227223916/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/27/what-rudy-giulianis-version-reality-looks-like-ukraine/|archive-date=December 27, 2019|url-access=limited|access-date=January 26, 2020}}{{cite tweet|title=It was flattering to have George Soros and Viktor Pinchuk personally waiting for us at the airport last night in Kiev—with their entourage of human Dobermans in little black Mercedes.|last=Rion|first=Chanel|date=December 6, 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20191207220330/https://twitter.com/ChanelRion/status/1203069352012070912|archive-date=December 7, 2019|access-date=January 26, 2020|number=1203069352012070912|user=ChanelRion}} Soros was not known to have visited Ukraine since 2016.

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OAN has promoted hydroxychloroquine as a "miracle cure" for COVID-19, blaming a "massive disinformation campaign" by "Big Tech" and the "Chinese-controlled" World Health Organization for it not being recommended as such.{{cite news |date=2020-08-08 |access-date=2022-06-20 |title=The meaning of One America News Network |url=https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/08/08/the-meaning-of-one-america-news-network |newspaper=The Economist |archive-date=June 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220620160718/https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/08/08/the-meaning-of-one-america-news-network |url-status=live }}

In March 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the OAN chief White House correspondent Chanel Rion promoted a conspiracy theory that the virus originated in a North Carolina lab, citing information from a "citizen investigator and a monitored source amongst a certain set of the DC intelligence community"{{Cite news|last=Stanley-Becker|first=Isaac|date=2020-03-27|title=As Trump signals willingness to break with experts, his base assails Fauci|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-trump-signals-readiness-to-break-with-experts-his-online-base-assails-fauci/2020/03/26/3802de14-6df6-11ea-aa80-c2470c6b2034_story.html|url-access=subscription|access-date=2020-11-12|id={{ProQuest|2383304141}}|archive-date=February 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210216184105/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-trump-signals-readiness-to-break-with-experts-his-online-base-assails-fauci/2020/03/26/3802de14-6df6-11ea-aa80-c2470c6b2034_story.html|url-status=live}} who was actually a Twitter conspiracy theorist.{{Cite web|title=Pro-Trump OAN pushes wild conspiracy theory that novel coronavirus was created in a North Carolina lab|url=https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/pro-trump-oan-pushes-wild-conspiracy-theory-novel-coronavirus-was-created|access-date=2021-06-28|website=Media Matters for America|date=March 18, 2020 |language=en|archive-date=March 31, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200331152828/https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/pro-trump-oan-pushes-wild-conspiracy-theory-novel-coronavirus-was-created|url-status=live}} As she described this individual during a televised report from the White House grounds, an image was displayed of actor Keir Dullea in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. She also asserted that Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading expert on infectious diseases, had funded the creation of COVID-19.{{cite web|url=https://www.thewrap.com/one-america-news-reporter-asks-trump-if-saying-chinese-food-is-racist/|title=One America News' Chanel Rion Asks Trump If 'Chinese Food' Is Racist|last=Ellefson|first=Lindsey|date=March 19, 2020|website=TheWrap|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200323233411/http://www.thewrap.com/one-america-news-reporter-asks-trump-if-saying-chinese-food-is-racist/|archive-date=March 23, 2020|access-date=March 19, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/pro-trump-oan-pushes-wild-conspiracy-theory-novel-coronavirus-was-created|title=Pro-Trump OAN pushes wild conspiracy theory that novel coronavirus was created in a North Carolina lab|last=Whitehouse|first=John|date=March 18, 2020|publisher=Media Matters for America|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200331152828/https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/pro-trump-oan-pushes-wild-conspiracy-theory-novel-coronavirus-was-created|archive-date=March 31, 2020|access-date=March 19, 2020}} Rion later claimed without evidence that other mainstream media outlets were parroting Chinese Communist Party propaganda.{{cite news|last=Ayesh|first=Rashaan|url=https://www.axios.com/trump-coronavirus-media-werent-prepared-bf6b8595-61c6-4e5a-b391-ca1e4446368e.html|title=Trump on coronavirus: "The only thing we weren't prepared for was the media"|date=March 19, 2020|work=Axios|access-date=March 19, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200404010409/https://www.axios.com/trump-coronavirus-media-werent-prepared-bf6b8595-61c6-4e5a-b391-ca1e4446368e.html|archive-date=April 4, 2020}} During a press conference with Trump, she asked him whether it was "racist" to use the term "Chinese food"; accused "major left-wing news media" of "consistently siding with foreign state propaganda, Islamic radicals and Latin gangs and cartels" as well as "Chinese Communist Party narratives"; and asked the president whether it was "alarming" that media "work right here at the White House with direct access to you and your team?"{{cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/488468-trump-accuses-press-of-siding-with-china-amid-pandemic|title=Trump accuses press of 'siding with China' amid pandemic|last=Conradis|first=Brandon|date=March 19, 2020|work=The Hill|access-date=March 19, 2020|archive-date=March 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200319184738/https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/488468-trump-accuses-press-of-siding-with-china-amid-pandemic|url-status=live}}{{cite web |last=Ellefson |first=Lindsey |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/one-america-news-reporter-asks-180628969.html |title=One America News Reporter Asks Trump If Saying 'Chinese Food' Is Racist |publisher=Yahoo.com |date=March 19, 2020 |access-date=April 6, 2020 |archive-date=March 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200320091927/https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/one-america-news-reporter-asks-180628969.html |url-status=live}}

In May 2020, OAN host Liz Wheeler claimed without evidence that "mainstream media pretended there was a deadly surge in COVID cases" after the 2020 Wisconsin Spring election. PolitiFact rated the claim "Pants on Fire", having found that there were no references to a "surge" in their review of state and national articles about the election, and that reports had accurately listed the number of COVID-19 cases potentially related to the election.{{Cite web|last=Litke|first=Eric|date=May 12, 2020|title=No, the media did not "pretend there was a deadly surge in COVID cases" after Wisconsin election|url=https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/12/one-america-news/mainstream-media-surge-COVID-Wisconsin-election/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-29|website=PolitiFact|language=en-US|archive-date=June 29, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629021744/https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/12/one-america-news/mainstream-media-surge-COVID-Wisconsin-election/}}

In November 2020, YouTube suspended OAN's channel's ability to upload videos for one week and demonetized its channel for violating YouTube's policy against promoting COVID-19 misinformation, after OAN uploaded a video advertising a fake cure for COVID-19. OAN responded that "The video was 'unlisted' on YouTube for review by internal OAN staff only", accused YouTube of a First Amendment violation, and stated that the video was republished on the OAN website.{{cite web |last1=Ellefson |first1=Lindsey |title=OANN Blasts YouTube Suspension: 'Arbitrary Rules' |url=https://www.thewrap.com/oann-blasts-youtube-suspension-covid-violation/ |website=TheWrap |access-date=September 16, 2024 |date=November 25, 2020 |archive-date=January 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118103709/https://www.thewrap.com/oann-blasts-youtube-suspension-covid-violation/ |url-status=live }}

In September 2022, OAN reported on a declaration by a group of scientists and doctors claiming that the COVID-19 vaccines were causing an "international medical crisis". The fact-checking website Health Feedback noted that OAN did not acknowledge that the claims made in the declaration had previously been fact-checked and found to be inaccurate, unsupported or misleading.{{Cite web |date=September 19, 2022 |first=Fernanda |last=Ferreira |title=The COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective; claim that they have caused an "international medical crisis" is baseless |url=https://science.feedback.org/review/covid-19-vaccines-safe-and-effective-claim-they-have-caused-international-medical-crisis-baseless-oan-daily-sceptic/ |access-date=September 16, 2024 |website=Science Feedback |publisher=Health Feedback |language=en-US |archive-date=September 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240916063928/https://science.feedback.org/review/covid-19-vaccines-safe-and-effective-claim-they-have-caused-international-medical-crisis-baseless-oan-daily-sceptic/ |url-status=live }}

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In June 2020, during protests against racism and police brutality in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, OAN reporter Jack Posobiec falsely claimed that there were pipe bombs planted at the Korean War Memorial in Washington D.C., and that "federal assets [were] in pursuit". There were no pipe bombs, nor is there any evidence that any "federal assets" pursued it.{{Cite news|last=Sommer|first=Will|date=2020|title=Infamous Pizzagater Jack Posobiec Pushed Hoax About Pipe Bombs Being Planted at Korean War Memorial|language=en|work=The Daily Beast|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/infamous-pizzagater-jack-posobiec-pushed-hoax-about-pipe-bombs-being-planted-at-korean-war-memorial|access-date=June 4, 2020|archive-date=June 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604010329/https://www.thedailybeast.com/infamous-pizzagater-jack-posobiec-pushed-hoax-about-pipe-bombs-being-planted-at-korean-war-memorial|url-status=live}}

{{main|Buffalo police shoving incident}}

In June 2020, OAN claimed, without evidence, that an elderly protester who had been seriously injured by police "was attempting to capture the radio communications signature of Buffalo police officers" and was linked to the antifa movement.{{Cite web|last=Forgey|first=Quint|title=Trump floats conspiracy theory about 75-year-old protester shoved by Buffalo cops|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/09/trump-conspiracy-theory-protester-buffalo-cops-308716|access-date=June 9, 2020|website=Politico|date=June 9, 2020 |archive-date=June 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609180959/https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/09/trump-conspiracy-theory-protester-buffalo-cops-308716|url-status=live}} Referencing OAN's unfounded conspiracy theory, Trump later tweeted that the protester "could be an ANTIFA provocateur."{{Cite news|last=Gabbatt|first=Adam|title=Trump makes baseless claim about man, 75, shoved by police: 'Could be a set-up?'|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/09/trump-buffalo-man-injured-police-tweet|date=June 9, 2020|access-date=June 9, 2020|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=June 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609155115/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/09/trump-buffalo-man-injured-police-tweet|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|last=Silverman|first=Craig|title=Donald Trump Spread A Conspiracy Theory About Injured Buffalo Protester Martin Gugino|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/donald-trump-conspiracy-martin-gugino-buffalo|date=June 9, 2020|access-date=June 9, 2020|website=BuzzFeed News|language=en|archive-date=June 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609155156/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/donald-trump-conspiracy-martin-gugino-buffalo|url-status=live}} OAN's Kristian Rouz provided no evidence for these claims, referring only to The Conservative Treehouse, an anonymously written right-wing blog.{{cite news |last1=Quinn |first1=Melissa |title=Trump suggests without evidence 75-year-old man shoved to the ground by Buffalo police was a "set up" |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-calls-buffalo-protester-martin-gugino-antifa-provocateur/ |access-date=June 10, 2020 |work=CBS News |date=June 9, 2020 |archive-date=June 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610000719/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-calls-buffalo-protester-martin-gugino-antifa-provocateur/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Collins |first1=Ben |title=President Donald Trump tweets 'antifa' conspiracy theory that originated on anonymous blog |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/president-trump-tweets-antifa-conspiracy-theory-originated-anonymous-blog-n1228356 |access-date=October 27, 2020 |work=NBC News |date=June 9, 2020 |archive-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025163241/https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/president-trump-tweets-antifa-conspiracy-theory-originated-anonymous-blog-n1228356 |url-status=live }} That afternoon, Herring Sr. tweeted to Trump, "we won't let you down as your source for credible news!" On June 13, protesters in San Diego, California gathered outside OAN headquarters,{{Cite web|date=2020-06-13|title=Saturday Protest Prompts Armed Guards Outside SD News Station|url=https://patch.com/california/lamesa/saturday-protest-prompts-armed-guards-outside-sd-news-station|access-date=2020-06-14|website=La Mesa-Mount Helix, CA Patch|language=en|archive-date=November 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201123003931/https://patch.com/california/lamesa/saturday-protest-prompts-armed-guards-outside-sd-news-station|url-status=live}} where Herring Sr. challenged the crowd to prove the story was false.{{Cite web|date=2020-06-13|title=Protesters Label One America News Network as 'Lies' at San Diego HQ|url=https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2020/06/13/protesters-label-one-america-news-network-as-lies-at-san-diego-hq/|access-date=2020-06-14|website=Times of San Diego|language=en-US|archive-date=May 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515042619/https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2020/06/13/protesters-label-one-america-news-network-as-lies-at-san-diego-hq/|url-status=live}}

{{See also|Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election}}

In the months after the 2020 United States presidential election, OAN extensively amplified false claims of election fraud and promoted conspiracy theories related to the election. Five days after the Associated Press had called the election for Joe Biden, OAN continued to insist that Donald Trump had won,{{cite magazine|last=Ecarma|first=Caleb|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/11/trump-nuclear-against-fox-news-election-coverage|title=Trump Goes Nuclear Against Fox News For Not Pretending He Won|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=November 12, 2020|access-date=December 5, 2020|archive-date=December 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204091014/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/11/trump-nuclear-against-fox-news-election-coverage|url-status=live}} and OAN continued to refer to Trump as "President Trump" (while referring to Biden as simply "Biden" or "Joe Biden") for months after the January 2021 inauguration of Joe Biden as President.

Christina Bobb, an OAN anchor, was present in the Willard Hotel "command center" where top Trump associates worked to prevent Joe Biden's election from being certified.{{cite news|title=Ahead of Jan. 6, Willard hotel in downtown D.C. was a Trump team 'command center' for effort to deny Biden the presidency|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/willard-trump-eastman-giuliani-bannon/2021/10/23/c45bd2d4-3281-11ec-9241-aad8e48f01ff_story.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=October 23, 2021|first1=Jacqueline|last1=Alemany|first2=Emma|last2=Brown|first3=Tom|last3=Hamburger|first4=Jon|last4=Swaine|access-date=December 28, 2021|archive-date=October 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026024450/https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/willard-trump-eastman-giuliani-bannon/2021/10/23/c45bd2d4-3281-11ec-9241-aad8e48f01ff_story.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|last1=Suebsaeng|first1=Asawin|last2=Tani|first2=Maxwell|last3=Stein|first3=Sam|date=November 24, 2020|title=An OAN Host Has Been Helping Rudy With Trump's Legal Efforts|language=en|work=The Daily Beast|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/oan-host-christina-bobb-has-been-helping-rudy-giuliani-with-trumps-legal-efforts|url-status=live|access-date=January 27, 2021|archive-date=January 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107160016/https://www.thedailybeast.com/oan-host-christina-bobb-has-been-helping-rudy-giuliani-with-trumps-legal-efforts}} Rudy Giuliani said in an October 2021 deposition that Bobb had to run stories she developed past the Trump campaign so that they "didn't violate any of our rules or whatever".{{Cite news |last=Baragona |first=Justin |date=2021-10-04 |title=Giuliani Claims Trump Campaign Had Veto Power Over OAN Reporter's Stories |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/giuliani-claims-trump-campaign-had-veto-power-over-oan-reporters-stories |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902040032/https://www.thedailybeast.com/giuliani-claims-trump-campaign-had-veto-power-over-oan-reporters-stories |archive-date=September 2, 2023 |access-date=2023-09-02 |work=The Daily Beast |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Abdollah |first=Tami |date=August 31, 2022 |title=How Trump lawyer Christina Bobb, an ex-OAN host, took spotlight in Mar-a-Lago case |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2022/08/31/trump-mar-lago-document-investigation-christina-bobb/7879225001/ |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220831125810/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2022/08/31/trump-mar-lago-document-investigation-christina-bobb/7879225001/?gnt-cfr=1 |archive-date=August 31, 2022 |access-date=2023-09-02 |website=USA Today |language=en-US}} The Washington Post reported in January 2022 that Bobb worked with Giuliani and other Trump campaign officials in December 2020 to execute a plan for Republicans in seven states to create fraudulent certificates of ascertainment to falsely assert Trump had been reelected.{{cite news|title=As Giuliani coordinated plan for Trump electoral votes in states Biden won, some electors balked|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/electors-giuliani-trump-electoral-college/2022/01/20/687e3698-7587-11ec-8b0a-bcfab800c430_story.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=January 20, 2022|first1=Beth|last1=Reinhard|first2=Amy|last2=Gardner|first3=Josh|last3=Dawsey|first4=Emma|last4=Brown|first5=Rosalind S.|last5=Helderman|access-date=January 21, 2022|archive-date=January 21, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121151123/https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/electors-giuliani-trump-electoral-college/2022/01/20/687e3698-7587-11ec-8b0a-bcfab800c430_story.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Trump campaign officials, led by Rudy Giuliani, oversaw fake electors plot in 7 states|url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/20/politics/trump-campaign-officials-rudy-giuliani-fake-electors/index.html|work=CNN|date=January 20, 2022|first1=Marshall|last1=Cohen|first2=Zachary|last2=Cohen|first3=Dan|last3=Merica|access-date=January 21, 2022|archive-date=January 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120212949/https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/20/politics/trump-campaign-officials-rudy-giuliani-fake-electors/index.html|url-status=live}}

OAN saw growth in its audience as a result of its election coverage. It was boosted in particular by Donald Trump, who expressed disapproval of Fox News' reporting on the presidential election and encouraged his supporters to instead watch OAN or Newsmax TV, another conservative channel promoting election falsehoods.{{cite news|last1=Nicolaou|first1=Anna|last2=Fontanella-Khan|first2=James|last3=Barker|first3=Alex|url=https://www.ft.com/content/b4272d9d-477c-4060-90a9-cd769e93f994|title=Can Trump take on Fox News with a rival media outlet?|work=Financial Times|location=London|date=November 20, 2020|access-date=December 5, 2020|archive-date=December 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201207214453/https://www.ft.com/content/b4272d9d-477c-4060-90a9-cd769e93f994|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last=Bump|first=Philip|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/04/turns-out-that-dishonesty-is-lucrative/|title=Turns out that dishonesty is lucrative|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=December 4, 2020|access-date=December 5, 2020|archive-date=December 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205072305/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/04/turns-out-that-dishonesty-is-lucrative/|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last=Shafer|first=Jack|url=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/24/fox-doesnt-need-to-fear-trumps-wrath-440446|title=Fox Doesn't Need to Fear Trump's Wrath|work=Politico|date=November 24, 2020|access-date=December 5, 2020|archive-date=December 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202151756/https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/24/fox-doesnt-need-to-fear-trumps-wrath-440446|url-status=live}}

Reuters reported in October 2021 that on the day of the attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters, an OAN news director emailed staff: "Please DO NOT say 'Trump Supporters Storm Capitol...' Simply call them demonstrators or protestors...DO NOT CALL IT A RIOT!!!" The next day, Herring emailed news producers: "We want to report all the things Antifa did yesterday. I don't think it was Trump people but lets investigate." The FBI has not found evidence of antifa involvement.

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OAN was a major promoter of the conspiracy theory that Dominion Voting Systems had manipulated vote totals to ensure the victory of Democratic candidate Joe Biden.{{Cite web|last=Vlamis|first=Kelsey|date=December 25, 2020|title=OANN is doubling down on election conspiracy theories after Dominion threatened the network with a defamation lawsuit|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/oann-doubles-down-on-election-conspiracy-theories-amid-lawsuit-threats-2020-12|url-status=live|website=Business Insider|access-date=April 11, 2021|archive-date=April 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411004953/https://www.businessinsider.com/oann-doubles-down-on-election-conspiracy-theories-amid-lawsuit-threats-2020-12}} OAN spent months alleging manipulation by Dominion,{{Cite web|last=Rosemurgy|first=Emma|date=January 24, 2021|title=Pro-Trump One America News Deletes Articles Lying About Voting Machine Manufacturer|url=https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/pro-trump-one-america-news-deletes-articles-lying-about-voting-machine-manufacturer/|url-status=live|website=UNILAD|access-date=April 11, 2021|archive-date=April 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411004954/https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/pro-trump-one-america-news-deletes-articles-lying-about-voting-machine-manufacturer/}} advanced claims that Dominion employees had colluded with antifa activists,{{Cite web|last1=Birkeland|first1=Bente|last2=Parks|first2=Miles|date=December 23, 2020|title=The Toll Of Conspiracy Theories: A Voting Security Expert Lives In Hiding|url=https://www.npr.org/2020/12/23/948828692/the-toll-of-conspiracy-theories-a-voting-security-expert-lives-in-hiding|url-status=live|website=NPR|access-date=April 11, 2021|archive-date=January 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124225525/https://www.npr.org/2020/12/23/948828692/the-toll-of-conspiracy-theories-a-voting-security-expert-lives-in-hiding}}{{Cite news|last=Blake|first=Aaron|date=February 6, 2021|title=Lou Dobbs, and the most problematic claims Trump allies made about voting machines|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/05/most-legally-problematic-claims-trumps-allies-made-about-voting-machines/|url-status=live|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=April 11, 2021|archive-date=April 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423182923/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/05/most-legally-problematic-claims-trumps-allies-made-about-voting-machines/}} aired a fictitious map allegedly seized by the US Army from election servers in Germany showing Donald Trump had received 410 electoral votes,{{Cite web|last=Caldera|first=Camille|date=November 18, 2020|title=Fact check: Map showing Trump landslide based on false report of seized election servers in Germany|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/11/18/fact-check-fake-map-shows-trump-with-410-electoral-votes/3767048001/|url-status=live|website=USA Today|access-date=April 11, 2021|archive-date=December 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201217005303/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/11/18/fact-check-fake-map-shows-trump-with-410-electoral-votes/3767048001/}}{{Cite web |last=Aswathi |date=January 5, 2021 |title=False: Data from electronic voting company Scytl shows a landslide victory for President Trump. |url=https://www.logically.ai/factchecks/library/53a9a2f6 |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=Logically |language=en-gb |archive-date=February 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230211012410/https://www.logically.ai/factchecks/library/53a9a2f6 |url-status=live }} and hosted interviews with Trump allies claiming that Dominion was part of an international communist conspiracy.{{Cite web|last=Baragona|first=Justin|date=February 4, 2021|title=OAN Declares War on Newsmax for 'Censoring' MyPillow Guy|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/one-america-news-declares-war-on-newsmax-for-censoring-mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell|url-status=live|website=The Daily Beast|access-date=April 11, 2021|archive-date=April 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428054849/https://www.thedailybeast.com/one-america-news-declares-war-on-newsmax-for-censoring-mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell}} Some of these claims were later amplified by Donald Trump, including a false assertion made on OAN that millions of votes for Trump were switched to votes for Joe Biden (a claim that originated on TheDonald.win, a pro-Trump website);{{Cite news|last1=Funke|first1=Daniel|last2=Putterman|first2=Samantha|date=November 12, 2020|title=Trump's tweet about 2.7 million deleted votes is baseless|work=Politifact|url=https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/12/donald-trump/trumps-tweet-about-27-million-deleted-votes-basele/|access-date=December 5, 2020|archive-date=December 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201206145712/https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/12/donald-trump/trumps-tweet-about-27-million-deleted-votes-basele/|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Swenson|first1=Ali|last2=Seitz|first2=Amanda|url=https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-trump-tweets-tall-tale-votes-13c104367924b8192b4fcecf334f7806|title=AP FACT CHECK: Trump tweets a tall tale of 'deleted' votes|work=AP News|date=November 12, 2020|access-date=December 5, 2020|archive-date=December 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205001512/https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-trump-tweets-tall-tale-votes-13c104367924b8192b4fcecf334f7806|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|last1=Scherer|first1=Michael|last2=Dawsey|first2=Josh|date=December 13, 2020|title=Trump expands his cable diet to Newsmax and OAN. They benefit, and so does he.|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-cable-news-newsmax-oan/2020/12/10/041d2958-3969-11eb-bc68-96af0daae728_story.html|url-status=live|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=April 11, 2021|archive-date=January 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128124446/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-cable-news-newsmax-oan/2020/12/10/041d2958-3969-11eb-bc68-96af0daae728_story.html}} Trump also tweeted out an OAN segment in which Ron Watkins, a far-right conspiracy theorist and administrator of 8chan (the website famous for its close connection to the QAnon conspiracy theory), was falsely characterized as an expert on election issues as he promoted conspiracy theories about Dominion.{{Cite web|last=Murdock|first=Jason|date=November 19, 2021|title=Trump Shares Video Claiming Voter Fraud Featuring 'Cyber Analyst' Who Was Admin of QAnon-Linked Website|url=https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-video-voter-fraud-claim-qanon-8kun-cyber-analyst-twitter-flagged-1548723|url-status=live|website=Newsweek|access-date=April 10, 2021|archive-date=April 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410234339/https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-video-voter-fraud-claim-qanon-8kun-cyber-analyst-twitter-flagged-1548723}}{{Cite web|last=Greenspan|first=Rachel E.|date=November 9, 2020|title=Trump shared a video that featured a former administrator of QAnon's fringe message board spreading election misinformation|url=https://www.insider.com/trump-tweets-video-voter-fraud-dominion-former-qanon-message-board-2020-11|website=Business Insider|access-date=April 10, 2021|archive-date=May 2, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240502204304/https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tweets-video-voter-fraud-dominion-former-qanon-message-board-2020-11|url-status=live}}

OAN later removed all references to Dominion and Smartmatic, another company falsely accused of voter fraud, from its website without issuing public retractions after Dominion filed a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against Sidney Powell.{{Cite web|last=Shamsian|first=Jacob|date=January 21, 2021|title=Trump-ally media outlet OAN quietly deleted articles about Dominion despite publicly doubling down on election conspiracy theories|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/oan-deletes-articles-about-dominion-voting-election-conspiracy-2021-1|url-access=subscription|url-status=live|access-date=January 24, 2021|website=Business Insider|archive-date=January 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120212821/https://www.businessinsider.com/oan-deletes-articles-about-dominion-voting-election-conspiracy-2021-1}}{{Cite web|last=Thalen|first=Mikael|date=January 21, 2021|title=Pro-Trump outlet OAN is deleting all its articles about Dominion|url=https://www.dailydot.com/debug/pro-trump-outlet-oan-is-deleting-all-its-articles-about-dominion/|url-status=live|access-date=January 27, 2021|website=The Daily Dot|archive-date=January 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121194901/https://www.dailydot.com/debug/pro-trump-outlet-oan-is-deleting-all-its-articles-about-dominion/}} However, on February 5, 2021, OAN aired Absolute Proof, a film produced by My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell that contained false claims and conspiracy theories about voter fraud in the election. Before the program, OAN showed a lengthy disclaimer asserting that the claims were Lindell's alone, but that the 2020 election results "remain disputed and questioned by millions of Americans." The disclaimer was seen as an attempt to avoid litigation from Dominion and Smartmatic.{{Cite web|last=Kalmbacher|first=Colin|date=February 5, 2021|title='Nice Try': Dominion Lawyer Says, Despite Disclaimer, OAN Acting with 'Textbook Actual Malice' by Airing So-Called Mike Lindell 'Report'|url=https://lawandcrime.com/awkward/nice-try-dominion-lawyer-says-despite-disclaimer-oan-acting-with-textbook-actual-malice-by-airing-so-called-mike-lindell-report/|url-status=live|access-date=February 7, 2021|website=Law & Crime|language=en|archive-date=February 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210207001840/https://lawandcrime.com/awkward/nice-try-dominion-lawyer-says-despite-disclaimer-oan-acting-with-textbook-actual-malice-by-airing-so-called-mike-lindell-report/}}{{Cite web|last=Corn|first=David|date=February 5, 2021|title=Dominion Voting lawyer suggests OAN may be next for a mega-lawsuit|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/02/dominion-voting-mike-lindell-mypillow-oan-trump/|url-status=live|access-date=February 7, 2021|website=Mother Jones|language=en-US|archive-date=February 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210206120027/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/02/dominion-voting-mike-lindell-mypillow-oan-trump/}}

On August 10, 2021, Dominion sued OAN for "knowingly and continuously" spreading false election fraud narratives,{{Cite web |last=Macias |first=Amanda |date=2021-08-10 |title=Dominion sues pro-Trump outlets OAN and Newsmax over election conspiracy theories |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/10/dominion-sues-pro-trump-oan-newsmax-overstock-founder-over-election-conspiracies.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812055104/https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/10/dominion-sues-pro-trump-oan-newsmax-overstock-founder-over-election-conspiracies.html |archive-date=August 12, 2021 |access-date=2021-08-12 |website=CNBC |language=en}} for a minimum of $1.6 billion.{{Cite news|last=Pruitt-Young|first=Sharon|date=2021-08-10|title=The 2020 Election Is Back In Court, As Dominion Sues Conservative Media Outlets|language=en|work=NPR|url=https://www.npr.org/2021/08/10/1026509404/dominion-sues-conservative-media-oan-newsmax-2020-election|access-date=2021-10-06|archive-date=October 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211013093831/https://www.npr.org/2021/08/10/1026509404/dominion-sues-conservative-media-oan-newsmax-2020-election|url-status=live}}

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On January 25, 2020, OAN aired a film titled The Ukraine Hoax: Impeachment, Biden Cash, and Mass Murder. In March 2021, the United States intelligence community released an analysis which found that proxies of Russian intelligence "made contact with established US media figures and helped produce a documentary that aired on a US television network in late January 2020" as part of a broad effort to promote and launder misleading or unsubstantiated narratives about Joe Biden "to US media organizations, US officials, and prominent US individuals, including some close to former President Trump and his administration."{{Cite web|last1=Cohen|first1=Zachary|last2=Cohen|first2=Marshall|last3=Polantz|first3=Katelyn|date=March 17, 2021|title=US intelligence report says Russia used Trump allies to influence 2020 election with goal of 'denigrating' Biden|url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/16/politics/us-election-intel-report/index.html|url-status=live|access-date=March 19, 2021|website=CNN|archive-date=March 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319003036/https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/16/politics/us-election-intel-report/index.html}}{{Cite news|last=Bump|first=Philip|date=March 17, 2021|title=Analysis | How a new government report strongly implicates Giuliani in a Russian interference effort|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/17/how-new-government-report-strongly-implicates-giuliani-russian-interference-effort/|url-status=live|access-date=March 19, 2021|newspaper=The Washington Post|archive-date=March 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210318030906/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/17/how-new-government-report-strongly-implicates-giuliani-russian-interference-effort/}}

In June 2021, OAN personality Pearson Sharp falsely stated in an on-air monologue that "the simple facts point to massive and widespread problems with voting integrity" and "there have been numerous indications that foreign governments including China and Pakistan, meddled in our election to install Joe Biden as president," continuing: "What are the consequences for traitors who meddled with our sacred democratic process and tried to steal power by taking away the voices of the American people? What happens to them? Well, in the past, America had a very good solution for dealing with such traitors: Execution...The bottom line is that no one is above the law. And let this be a warning to anyone who thinks they are. The consequences are clear. And those responsible will be brought to justice for their role in undermining America's democracy."

Followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory shared video of the monologue, which buttressed their belief that a "storm" was coming in which Satan-worshiping pedophiles who oppose Trump would be rounded up and executed.{{Cite web|last=Woodward|first=Alex|date=June 24, 2021|title=OAN host suggests 'traitors' who 'stole' election should be executed|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/oan-executions-conspiracy-theory-qanon-b1872104.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/oan-executions-conspiracy-theory-qanon-b1872104.html |archive-date=May 24, 2022 |url-access=subscription|url-status=live|access-date=June 27, 2021|website=The Independent}}{{Cite web|last=Palmer|first=Ewan|date=June 24, 2021|title=OANN presenter's calls for mass executions in U.S. excites QAnon supporters|url=https://www.newsweek.com/qanon-executions-oann-presenter-traitors-election-1603678|url-status=live|access-date=June 27, 2021|website=Newsweek|archive-date=July 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210703053737/https://www.newsweek.com/qanon-executions-oann-presenter-traitors-election-1603678}}

Trump lost Arizona and its most populous county, Maricopa, in the 2020 election. Arizona Senate Republicans, holding the senate majority and led by Karen Fann, asserted possible fraud and hired private firms to conduct an audit of Maricopa balloting. OAN broadcast extensive coverage of the audit, which was widely criticized across the political spectrum. Bobb and Rion formed a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization to raise funds for the effort, promoting it on the air. The audit ultimately found no proof of fraud and that Biden's margin of victory was actually slightly higher.{{Cite web|url=https://www.azmirror.com/2021/09/24/audit-leaders-rolled-out-the-red-carpet-for-friendly-right-wing-media/|title='Audit' leaders rolled out the red carpet for 'friendly' right-wing media|date=September 24, 2021|work=Arizona Mirror|access-date=October 18, 2021|archive-date=October 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019113554/https://www.azmirror.com/2021/09/24/audit-leaders-rolled-out-the-red-carpet-for-friendly-right-wing-media/|url-status=live}}

On March 18, 2021, OAN aired a segment which contained the phone number of New York Times reporter Rachel Abrams, who they claimed was "fishing for information" from disgruntled OAN employees for a "hit piece" and called on viewers to "stand up to intimidation by the left" by contacting Abrams. OAN also posted a tweet with the number on its Twitter account, which was deleted after more than 6 hours by Twitter for violating its rules on personal and private information.{{Cite web|last=Cameron|first=Dell|date=March 18, 2021|title=Twitter Stands By, Lets OANN Link to Reporter's Phone Number, Encourage Users to Harass Her [Updated]|url=https://gizmodo.com/twitter-stands-by-lets-oann-link-to-reporters-cell-num-1846509040|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-19|website=Gizmodo|language=en-us|archive-date=March 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319043558/https://gizmodo.com/twitter-stands-by-lets-oann-link-to-reporters-cell-num-1846509040}}{{Cite web|last=Rahman|first=Rema|date=2021-03-18|title=OAN broadcasts cellphone number of New York Times business reporter|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/543927-oan-broadcasts-cell-phone-number-of-new-york-times-business-reporter|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-19|website=The Hill|language=en|archive-date=March 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319001626/https://thehill.com/homenews/media/543927-oan-broadcasts-cell-phone-number-of-new-york-times-business-reporter}} On April 18, 2021, Abrams published an article in The New York Times, which cited interviews with current and former OAN employees stating that the channel had broadcast reports they considered to be "misleading, inaccurate or untrue", and that some employees were hoping the channel would be sued by Dominion Voting Systems, which it later was.{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2021/08/10/1026509404/dominion-sues-conservative-media-oan-newsmax-2020-election|title=The 2020 Election Is Back In Court, As Dominion Sues Conservative Media Outlets|first=Sharon|last=Pruitt-Young|date=August 10, 2021|website=NPR|access-date=October 6, 2021|archive-date=October 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211013093831/https://www.npr.org/2021/08/10/1026509404/dominion-sues-conservative-media-oan-newsmax-2020-election|url-status=live}} Marty Golingan, one of the employees who was interviewed, was fired by OAN after the article was published.{{Cite web|last=Homan|first=Timothy R.|date=2021-04-19|title=OAN staffer fired after he blasts network in NYT|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/549041-oan-staffer-fired-after-he-blasts-network-in-nyt|access-date=2021-04-20|website=The Hill|language=en|archive-date=April 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420003340/https://thehill.com/homenews/media/549041-oan-staffer-fired-after-he-blasts-network-in-nyt|url-status=live}}

In March 2015, University of Southern California media professor Marty Kaplan praised the network for its focus on what he viewed as impartial news reporting, writing in The Huffington Post, "Ten minutes of OAN tells me eight stories; 10 minutes of Fox or MSNBC tells me one story, to make me mad," while commenting that OAN's opinion segments were "as delusional and incendiary as anything on conservative talk radio or Fox."{{cite news|last=Kaplan|first=Marty|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/my-new-favorite-news-netw_b_6419182|title=My New Favorite News Network Is Not Liberal (and Not Fox)|date=January 5, 2015|work=The Huffington Post|access-date=June 21, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402195040/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/my-new-favorite-news-netw_b_6419182|archive-date=April 2, 2019}} He has since expressed a different view of the network, telling Columbia Journalism Review that, where once the talk shows were "sand traps" in a "large field of green", the network "fairly quickly" became "more like the Sahara".{{cite web|access-date=December 9, 2020|title=One America News was desperate for Trump's approval. Here's how it got it.|url=https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/one-america-news-oan-trump-herring.php|first=Andrew|last=McCormick|date=January 9, 2020|website=Columbia Journalism Review|archive-date=May 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200529054147/https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/one-america-news-oan-trump-herring.php|url-status=live}} Don Kaplan (no relation to Marty) of the New York Daily News echoed similar sentiments to Marty Kaplan's initial view, writing in December 2016 that, "it's by far one of the most fair news outlets around, serving up a daily diet of ad-free, non-ideological, nonstop news—without smirking, snarky anchors or much fanfare" while stating that its opinion segments "skew hard to the right."{{Cite news|last=Kaplan|first=Don|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/run-oan-best-news-channel-article-1.2921715|title=Run by the right, OAN is the best news channel|date=December 25, 2016|work=Daily News|access-date=May 15, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120035247/https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/run-oan-best-news-channel-article-1.2921715|archive-date=January 20, 2018|location=New York}}

In July 2017, Marc Fisher wrote in The Washington Post that the network was "a reliably sympathetic voice of the [Trump] administration's goals and actions". In July 2018, Media Matters for America criticized OAN host Liz Wheeler for advancing conspiracy theories relating to the Planned Parenthood 2015 undercover videos controversy and other abortion topics and tying tangentially related news stories to the "so-called liberal hypocrisy on abortion."{{cite web|url=https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/07/31/how-one-host-far-right-network-oann-pushing-conspiracy-theories-about-planned-parenthood/220842|title=How one host on far-right network OANN is pushing conspiracy theories about Planned Parenthood|last=Tulbert|first=Julie|date=July 31, 2018|publisher=Media Matters for America|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330153456/https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/07/31/how-one-host-far-right-network-oann-pushing-conspiracy-theories-about-planned-parenthood/220842|archive-date=March 30, 2019|access-date=August 26, 2018}} In 2019, the English Wikipedia deprecated OAN, along with The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller, with the consensus for OAN being that it publishes "falsehoods, conspiracy theories, and intentionally misleading stories".{{cite web|access-date=June 29, 2020|title=Why Wikipedia is much more effective than Facebook at fighting fake news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-why-wikipedia-is-much-more-effective-than-facebook-at-fighting-fake-news-1.8378622|first=Omar|last=Benjakob|date=January 9, 2020|website=Haaretz|archive-date=June 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200620203412/https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-why-wikipedia-is-much-more-effective-than-facebook-at-fighting-fake-news-1.8378622|url-status=live}}

In an April 2020 Last Week Tonight segment, John Oliver called the channel "a combination of far-right wing talking points and dirt-stupid reporting," criticizing its hosts, methods, ideology, accuracy, promotion of unfounded conspiracy theories, and closeness to the Trump administration.{{Cite web|last=Horton|first=Adrian|date=2020-04-06|title=John Oliver takes on OAN: 'Fox News with even less shame and even fewer scruples'|url=http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/apr/06/john-oliver-oan-one-america-news-fox-with-even-less-shame|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-13|website=The Guardian|language=en|archive-date=July 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210715050757/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/apr/06/john-oliver-oan-one-america-news-fox-with-even-less-shame}}{{Cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnSILVWDKL8|title=OAN: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)|date=April 6, 2020|last=Oliver|first=John|author-link=John Oliver|via=YouTube|access-date=April 6, 2020|archive-date=February 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226005828/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnSILVWDKL8|url-status=live}} That November, journalist Karl Bode described the channel as "a cornerstone of America's growing disinformation problem" and "a rotating collection of wobbly conspiracies and gibberish that has more in common with a state-run disinformation network than a credible news organization."{{Cite web |last=Bode |first=Karl |date=2020-11-25 |title=OAN Is So Dangerous Because It Looks Like a Real News Channel |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/oan-is-so-dangerous-because-it-looks-like-a-real-news-channel/ |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=Vice |language=en-US}}

In 2022, the Global Disinformation Index described OAN as having a high risk of disinformation due to "publishing no information regarding its policies to ensure accuracy (fact-checking, etc.) or attribute authorship, or about its ownership structure, which is a risk-factor for conflicts of interest and/or editorial interference."{{Cite web |date=2022-10-21 |title=Brief: Disinformation Risk in the United States Online Media Market, October 2022 |url=https://www.disinformationindex.org/research/2022-10-21-brief-disinformation-risk-in-the-united-states-online-media-market-october-2022/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529212707/https://www.disinformationindex.org/research/2022-10-21-brief-disinformation-risk-in-the-united-states-online-media-market-october-2022/ |archive-date=2023-05-29 |access-date=2024-05-11 |website=Global Disinformation Index |language=en}} The misinformation tracker NewsGuard has categorized OAN as an unreliable source of information.{{Cite web |last=Johnson |first=Ted |date=2024-12-19 |title=Attacking The Watchdog: How Media Rating Site NewsGuard Ended Up As A Target For GOP Lawmakers And Regulators |url=https://deadline.com/2024/12/newsguard-newsmax-trump-fcc-1236202249/ |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}

In June 2019, OAN said it was available in 35 million homes and its audience ranged from 150,000 to as large as 500,000, though Nielsen Media Research estimated its viewership that year to be about 14,000. The company does not subscribe to Nielsen, citing its high fees, so regular audience estimates are not available.

In February 2021, a federal judge awarded $250,000 to MSNBC in an anti-SLAPP counter suit to OAN's $10{{nbsp}}million lawsuit claiming that they had been defamed by Rachel Maddow. The judgment ruled that OAN's initial suit was frivolous and required OAN to pay all legal fees incurred by MSNBC.{{Cite web|date=2021-02-06|title=Judge Orders OAN to Pay Rachel Maddow and MSNBC $250,000 in Attorney Fees For Filing Frivolous Defamation Lawsuit|url=https://lawandcrime.com/first-amendment/judge-orders-oan-to-pay-rachel-maddow-and-msnbc-250000-in-attorney-fees-for-filing-frivolous-defamation-lawsuit/|access-date=2021-02-07|website=Law & Crime|language=en|archive-date=March 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210302111911/https://lawandcrime.com/first-amendment/judge-orders-oan-to-pay-rachel-maddow-and-msnbc-250000-in-attorney-fees-for-filing-frivolous-defamation-lawsuit/|url-status=live}}

In March 2022, OAN sued AT&T and DirecTV for $1 billion after DirecTV announced in January that it would be dropping the network in April,{{Cite web |last=Rohrlich |first=Justin |date=2022-03-12 |title=Pro-Trump Cable Network OAN Sues DirecTV for Dropping Its 'News' Channel |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-trump-cable-network-oan-sues-atandt-directv-for-dropping-its-news-channel |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230526232312/https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-trump-cable-network-oan-sues-atandt-directv-for-dropping-its-news-channel |archive-date=May 26, 2023 |access-date=2023-06-28 |website=The Daily Beast |language=en}} alleging that the decision was "part and parcel of a larger, coordinated, extremely well-financed political scheme to take down Herring and unlawfully destroy its ability to operate in the media business". OAN also alleged that AT&T and DirecTV violated a confidentiality provision by telling the press about the agreement expiration, and that AT&T "disparaged OAN in violation of the Affiliation Agreement", pointing to CNN airing "reports and commentary that falsely accused OAN of contributing to the events of January 6, 2021, and engaging in 'disinformation' campaigns" and John Oliver criticizing OAN on Last Week Tonight. In January 2023, most of OAN's claims were dismissed, but the judge did rule that Herring had "adequately alleged a breach of the confidentiality provision" and "would at a minimum be entitled to nominal damages".{{Cite web |last=Brodkin |first=Jon |date=2023-01-16 |title=OAN loses key ruling in suit claiming DirecTV broke deal by dropping network |url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/01/oan-loses-key-ruling-in-suit-claiming-directv-broke-deal-by-dropping-network/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230620094623/https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/01/oan-loses-key-ruling-in-suit-claiming-directv-broke-deal-by-dropping-network/ |archive-date=June 20, 2023 |access-date=2023-06-28 |website=Ars Technica |language=en-us}}

In December 2020, OAN was included as a defendant in a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer, alongside other outlets such as Newsmax and The Gateway Pundit.{{Cite web |last=Stracqualursi |first=Veronica |date=2020-12-23 |title=Voting machine company executive sues Trump allies for defamation |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/23/politics/dominion-voting-executive-defamation-lawsuit/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121010735/https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/23/politics/dominion-voting-executive-defamation-lawsuit/index.html |archive-date=January 21, 2021 |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=CNN |language=en}}{{Cite web |last1=Sneed |first1=Tierney |last2=Cohen |first2=Marshall |date=2023-09-05 |title=Far-right network OAN settles 2020 election defamation suit brought by ex-Dominion executive |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/05/media/dominion-exec-oan-lawsuit-settlement/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230906012504/https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/05/media/dominion-exec-oan-lawsuit-settlement/index.html |archive-date=September 6, 2023 |access-date=2023-09-06 |website=CNN |language=en}} Coomer asserted that the defendants had characterized him as a "traitor" and that as a result he was subjected to "multiple credible death threats".{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=December 22, 2020 |title=Dominion worker sues Trump campaign and conservative media |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/22/dominion-worker-lawsuit-trump-campaign-450212 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107035716/https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/22/dominion-worker-lawsuit-trump-campaign-450212 |archive-date=January 7, 2021 |access-date=January 25, 2021 |work=Politico |agency=Associated Press}}{{cite news |last=Naham |first=Matt |date=December 23, 2020 |title=Dominion Employee Sues Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, Trump Campaign and Right-Wing Media for Dragging His Name Through the Mud |url=https://www.mediaite.com/election-2020/dominion-employee-sues-sidney-powell-rudy-giuliani-trump-campaign-and-right-wing-media-for-dragging-his-name-through-the-mud/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201223185328/https://www.mediaite.com/election-2020/dominion-employee-sues-sidney-powell-rudy-giuliani-trump-campaign-and-right-wing-media-for-dragging-his-name-through-the-mud/ |archive-date=December 23, 2020 |access-date=January 25, 2021 |website=Mediaite}} OAN reached a settlement with Coomer in August 2023.

In August and November 2021, the channel was sued by Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic for promoting false claims that the companies had engaged in election fraud during the 2020 presidential election.{{cite news |last1=Larson |first1=Erik |date=November 3, 2021 |title=Smartmatic Sues Newsmax, OAN Over Election-Fraud Claims |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-03/newsmax-oan-sued-by-smartmatic-over-election-fraud-claims |access-date=November 3, 2021 |work=Bloomberg News }}

In December 2021, former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea' ArShaye Moss filed a defamation lawsuit against OAN and several of its senior executives, among others. In the complaint, Freeman and Moss alleged that OAN broadcast stories which falsely accused them of conspiring to produce secret batches of illegal ballots and inserting them into the voting machines to help Joe Biden win the 2020 US presidential election. Due to the alleged false accusations, Freeman and Moss said that they "have become the objects of vitriol, threats, and harassment".{{Cite web|last=Helmore|first=Edward|date=2021-12-24|title=Ex-Georgia election workers sue Giuliani and OAN, saying fraud claims put them in danger|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/24/ex-georgia-election-workers-sue-giuliani-oan-trump-conspiracy-theory|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-09|website=The Guardian|language=en|archive-date=January 11, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220111114532/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/24/ex-georgia-election-workers-sue-giuliani-oan-trump-conspiracy-theory}} In April 2022, they reached a settlement agreement with OAN and weeks later the network aired a pre-recorded 30-second segment acknowledging that its allegations were false.{{Cite news |last=Allen |first=Jonathan |date=2022-04-22 |title=Two Atlanta poll workers settle defamation lawsuit against One America |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us/two-atlanta-poll-workers-settle-defamation-lawsuit-against-one-america-2022-04-21/ |access-date=2022-05-08 |archive-date=May 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220512154046/https://www.reuters.com/world/us/two-atlanta-poll-workers-settle-defamation-lawsuit-against-one-america-2022-04-21/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Vaillancourt |first1=William |title=OAN Finally Admits 'No Widespread Voter Fraud' After Settling Defamation Suit |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/oan-finally-admits-no-widespread-voter-fraud-by-georgia-election-workers-after-settling-defamation-lawsuit |work=The Daily Beast |date=May 10, 2022 |access-date=May 10, 2022 |archive-date=May 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220511170903/https://www.thedailybeast.com/oan-finally-admits-no-widespread-voter-fraud-by-georgia-election-workers-after-settling-defamation-lawsuit |url-status=live }}

In January 2024, court filings from Smartmatic's defamation lawsuit against OAN revealed that OAN president Charles Herring had sent an email with a spreadsheet claimed to contain the passwords of Smartmatic employees to Sidney Powell on January 8, 2021. Smartmatic lawyers said the email exchange showed that OAN executives "may have engaged in criminal activities" because they "appear to have violated state and federal laws regarding data privacy."{{Cite web |last=Cohen |first=Marshall |date=2024-01-29 |title=Pro-Trump network OAN execs may have 'engaged in criminal activities' while promoting 2020 election lies, Smartmatic alleges |url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/29/business/oan-smartmatic-election-lawsuit/index.html |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=CNN Business |language=en |archive-date=March 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240329234745/https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/29/business/oan-smartmatic-election-lawsuit/index.html |url-status=live }} Herring also solicited additional information from the anonymous tipster who provided the spreadsheet.{{Cite web |last=Cohen |first=Marshall |date=2024-02-07 |title=Pro-Trump network OAN's president solicited more info after receiving 'stolen' Smartmatic passwords, court documents allege |url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/07/media/oan-president-smartmatic-passwords/index.html |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=CNN Business |language=en |archive-date=March 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240329234744/https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/07/media/oan-president-smartmatic-passwords/index.html |url-status=live }} Another court filing indicated that CEO Robert Herring had also sent a similar spreadsheet to Mike Lindell. A settlement was reached in April 2024.{{Cite web |last1=Cohen |first1=Marshall |last2=Darcy |first2=Oliver |date=2024-04-16 |title=OAN and Smartmatic settle election defamation case |url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/16/media/oan-smartmatic-settlement/index.html |access-date=2024-04-17 |website=CNN Business |language=en |archive-date=April 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417030707/https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/16/media/oan-smartmatic-settlement/index.html |url-status=live }}

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