Fox News Execs Hunt Down the Tucker-Kanye Video Leaker - The Daily Beast

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Fox News executives are “full-on freaked out” astir the leak of never-aired clips of Tucker Carlson’s interrogation with Kayne West, Confider has learned, and the web is closing successful connected the “mole” who was the root of the embarrassing breach.

A fewer weeks agone Carlson interviewed West, who present goes by the mononym Ye, and touted him arsenic a brave truth-teller dismissed by wide elites for his progressively far-right beliefs and stunts similar wearing a “White Lives Matter” garment to Paris Fashion Week.

Despite the Fox News solemnisation of West’s expected intelligence heft, unaired snippets leaked to Vice’s Motherboard showed the rapper and manner mogul peddling openly antisemitic tropes and bizarre claims astir “fake children” being utilized to manipulate his kids. These much embarrassing, newsworthy remarks ne'er made into the last broadcast of Carlson’s chat with the rapper. (The interrogation was besides before Ye threatened online to spell “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE” earlier being banned from aggregate platforms.)

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Fox whitethorn beryllium closing successful connected the leaker, but it’s present astir a week since Vice published the videos. This is simply a notable item due to the fact that successful 2012, the past clip the web dealt with a large video breach, it recovered and escorted the leaker—Bill O’Reilly’s then-associate shaper Joe Muto—out of the gathering successful little than 24 hours.

“This caller leaker learned from my mistakes,” Muto told Confider. “The main crushed I got caught is that I wasn’t covering my integer way peculiarly well. They’re evidently doing a amended occupation than I did if they haven’t been recovered yet.”

Following Muto’s leaks to Gawker, the web instituted stricter information protocols for accessing video, making it much hard to entree delicate outtakes similar the Ye ones. “It seems this leaker has recovered a mode astir that,” Muto remarked.

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A Fox News spokesperson declined to comment.

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