Fox News used outdated and mis-labeled footage in its reporting on on Portland protests

Question

The article explains that Fox News aired a segment on September 4th of this year, sowing protests outside a federal immigration enforcement facility in Portland. However, this outlets investigation found that some of the video clips shown were originally from the 2020 protests in Oregon after the George Floyd murder, not the 2025 demonstration. The article reported that Fox mislabeled dates, used footage from other locations, and framed the unrest as far broader and more chaotic than evidence from law enforcement records supports.

ProPublica reviewed more than 700 video clips from social media and compared them to network footage. Their findings show that arrests for violence, arson, and destruction in the Portland area were almost entirely confined to earlier periods as far back as July, yet, Fox News outlets reporting made it appear as though the protests in late summer 2025 were widespread and violent. The article highlighted that the TV segments and news articles used language to depict the city of Portland as a city under siege which was clearly not that case.

Answer 1

Fox News has had a history of showing videos from prior incidents to set an agenda and make largely Democrat-run cities appear in chaos. This 2020 article explains numerous instances in which Fox News deliberately used inaccurate video of prior incidents."Fox & Friends," the three-hour morning show frequently live-tweeted by President Trump, showed fires raging across Minneapolis on Tuesday. There were no widespread fires nor looting in the Twin Cities that day, and the B-roll footage had a little red May 28 time stamp on it." Fox also had lied about the protesters occupying an "autonomous zone" being armed. This was disproven by city officials. "In fact, according to the Seattle mayor's office, city officials haven't seen any evidence to indicate armed members of Antifa are even on the ground."

This is all to say that Fox News has a history of spreading misinformation and prioritizing opinion over fact by showing irrelevant videos when covering democratic protests, and will willingly lie to push their agenda, as seen in Seattle.