Arguing about whether Fox is “news” is pointless. To these nut jobs, it IS the news. Who earns that label doesn’t matter. What matters is word on the street: they deliberately don’t watch CNN and other real “news” sources, but they can’t get away from it - which is why they get so upset over “fake news”, and which is also why WE get so upset about “Fox news”. They don’t want to believe it, but if you think they don’t hear it, you’re wrong.
Repetition is how they came to accept Trump’s delusions: They heard it on Fox, their friends send them notes that came from QAnon, other friends say they heard it from friends (without any source given at all), etc, etc. Repetition might be the only tactic left to discourage them. Repeatedly using a shorthand term they’ve already taught themselves to ignore is not going to persuade anybody. Spell out the truth every time, some tiny truth they can’t avoid might just begin to resonate.
“The Big Lie” literally uses the term “Big”, but using it too much makes it seem much smaller.
