Andrew Bates, a White House spokesman, took aim at Levin in an unsolicited comment emailed Friday evening to reporters.
Shares of Fox rose nearly 2% after the news of Murdoch stepping down.
“Democracy balances the will of the majority with individual rights,” Netanyahu said. “That balance has been thrown off the rails in Israel.”
The comment came as Greg Gutfeld berated a Jewish cohost who was critiquing a Florida Department of Education curriculum that recommends teaching that slaves acquired useful skills.
During Trump's post-arraignment speech, shown alongside Biden's Juneteenth address, Fox News's chyron read: "WANNABE DICTATOR SPEAKS AT THE WHITE HOUSE AFTER HAVING HIS POLITICAL RIVAL ARRESTED."
"Tucker is subject to the same rules & rewards of all content creators," Elon Musk tweeted on Tuesday.
MIDDLE ISRAEL: What Fox News did with Trump’s defeat is what its Israeli clones did with the deaths of writers Yehonatan Geffen and Meir Shalev.
Carlson is separately facing a lawsuit from a Jewish former producer on his show who alleges that staff fostered antisemitism in the office.
Carlson's "Tucker Carlson Tonight" is the highest-rated cable news program in the key 25-to-54 age demographic on the most-watched US cable news network.
The move comes after Fox News' Tucker Carlson spent months attacking minor brand changes to some of the characters as "woke."
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