Tucker Carlson plans to relaunch his present on Twitter after being fired from Fox, telling followers that they’re “being manipulated” by tv information and that Elon Musk’s social media website is the final remaining massive platform that “permits free speech”.

In a three-minute video on his Twitter web page, Carlson introduced {that a} new model of the present can be “beginning quickly”, however didn’t present additional particulars.

“On the most elementary degree, the information you devour is a lie,” Carlson stated in a tirade towards the US media. “You might be being manipulated.”

Alluding to his abrupt exit from Fox, he warned that journalists face limits at established media teams and that breaching them too typically ends in being “fired”.

Carlson was dropped from Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Information community two weeks in the past in a transfer that shocked US media circles. The host has been among the many most-watched personalities on US tv, drawing greater than 3mn viewers to his present, Tucker Carlson Tonight.

The Twitter video revealed on Tuesday is Carlson’s second broadside towards the US media in as many weeks.

He stated: “What’s it wish to work in a system like that? After greater than 30 years in the midst of it we may inform you tales. One of the best you could possibly hope for within the information enterprise at this level is the liberty to inform the fullest reality you can.

“However there are at all times limits. And you already know that when you bump up towards these limits typically sufficient, you’ll be fired for it.”

Carlson’s exit from Fox adopted the community’s settlement of a $787.5mn settlement with voting-machine maker Dominion, after broadcasting on-air statements falsely alleging that its gadgets have been rigged to award votes to President Joe Biden within the 2020 election.

“For probably the most half, the information that you just see analysed on Twitter comes from media organisations which can be themselves thinly disguised propaganda shops. You see it on cable information, you speak about it on Twitter”, Carlson stated of his resolution to carry his present to the social community.

Fox determined to fireside Carlson partially as a consequence of personal messages he had despatched, which have been made public in authorized filings in current months, in keeping with individuals briefed on his exit.

Public authorized filings related to the Dominion case confirmed Carlson criticising Fox’s administration for calling the state of Arizona for Biden on election evening earlier than rival networks.

In response to the filings, Carlson texted his producer in early November 2020: “Do the executives perceive how a lot credibility and belief we’ve misplaced with our viewers? We’re taking part in with fireplace, for actual . . . another like Newsmax could possibly be devastating to us.”