By David Morgan

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer has called Fox News’ owner Rupert Murdoch and Fox News on Tuesday to end what he calls “reckless amplification.” Murdoch is accused of promoting a conspiracy theory that was believed to be endorsed by a New York man who killed 10 people during a racially motivated shooting.

Payton Gendron is an 18-year old white teenager who was accused of firing on a neighborhood in Buffalo that’s dominated by African Americans with a semiautomatic rifle. Investigators said that they were looking into the online posts of Payton Gendron, an 18-year-old white teenager. It includes a 180 page manifesto that he is thought to have written that details the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory in which white Americans are being replaced with minorities.

Schumer sent a letter addressed directly to Murdoch and other Fox executive saying that this pernicious theory has been introduced into mainstream media due to the dangers of its amplification.

Tucker Carlson was the top-rated Fox News Commentator. He claimed that Tucker Carlson had “spewed rhetoric which echoes replacement theories” more than 400 times since 2016. This is citing an investigation by The New York Times.

Fox News posted Monday’s transcript of a Carlson radio program. Gendron called for an emphasis on victims, and Gendron’s supposed views were “immoral” or “crazy.” He also called for a “colorblind meritocracy in the United States.

Gendron was accused of killing 10 people, and shooting thirteen others. On a first-degree charge of murder, Gendron has been placed in jail without bail. He did not plead guilty.

This shooting comes after a series of attacks against the United States, which included a Black Church in Charleston, South Carolina, a Walmart (NYSE 🙂 El Paso, Texas, and a Synagogue Pittsburgh.

Schumer, the Senate’s top Democrat, dedicated Monday’s floor speech to the shooting. He described Fox News as a special home for cultural grievances, political resentment, and mirror replacement theory.

Karine Jean Pierre, White House spokesperson, also condemned what she called a “poisonous false hatredful ideology”, but refused to identify specific news outlets. The people behind this filth are aware of their identities and should be embarrassed. She said that she was not willing to grant them and their offensive ideas the attention they so desperately desire.

Critics have been levelled at Republicans within Congress who support former President Donald Trump’s allies for using rhetoric suggesting that Democrats are trying to replace American voters with immigrant-friendly immigrants to maintain their power.

Republican Representative Liz Cheney claimed on Twitter Monday that Congress’ own party leaders had enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, anti-Semitism and “white nationalalism.” These views should be rejected and renounced, she said.

Republicans want to build party unity as they campaign for control of both the Senate and House of Representatives in November’s midterm elections.