One America News Network
American far-right pay television news channel
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| December 2024 | Matt Gaetz announced as joining OAN to host a new daily show starting in January 2025, following his withdrawal from a United States Attorney General nomination. |
| April 2024 | A settlement was reached in the Smartmatic defamation lawsuit against OAN. |
| April 2024 | OAN reached a legal settlement with Michael Cohen, acknowledging the previously aired story about him was false. |
| March 2024 | OAN promoted a false story claiming Michael Cohen had an affair with Stormy Daniels and used it to 'extort' the Trump Organization. |
| January 2024 | Court filings revealed OAN president Charles Herring sent a spreadsheet with alleged Smartmatic employee passwords to Sidney Powell on January 8, 2021. |
| 2022 | The Global Disinformation Index identified OAN as having a high risk of disinformation due to lack of transparency in fact-checking and ownership policies. |
| September 2022 | OAN reported on a declaration by scientists and doctors claiming COVID-19 vaccines were causing an 'international medical crisis', which was noted by Health Feedback as containing unsupported and misleading claims. |
| August 1 2022 | OAN's final day on cable or satellite, marking the end of its availability on major carriers. |
| July 21 2022 | Verizon Fios notified customers it would remove OAN from its service. |
| April 2022 | OAN reached a settlement with Ruby Freeman and Wandrea' ArShaye Moss and aired a 30-second segment acknowledging their allegations were false. |
| April 4 2022 | OAN was dropped from DirecTV's satellite and U-verse TV services, leading to some staff members leaving the network. |
| March 2022 | OAN filed a $1 billion lawsuit against AT&T and DirecTV after DirecTV announced it would drop the network, alleging a political scheme to destroy the network's ability to operate. |
| January 2022 | DirecTV announced it would not renew its contract with Herring Networks, which would affect OAN and its sister channel AWE. |
| 2021 | Jack Posobiec's employment with OAN as a political correspondent ended. |
| December 2021 | Former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea' ArShaye Moss filed a defamation lawsuit against OAN for falsely accusing them of ballot fraud in the 2020 presidential election. |
| October 2021 | In a deposition, Rudy Giuliani revealed that Christina Bobb had to run her stories past the Trump campaign to ensure compliance with their guidelines. |
| August 2021 | OAN reached a settlement with Eric Coomer in the defamation lawsuit. |
| August 2021 | A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied OAN's appeal of the previous ruling, affirming that Maddow's statement was 'an obvious exaggeration' and not defamation. |
| August 10 2021 | Dominion filed a $1.6 billion lawsuit against OAN for 'knowingly and continuously' spreading false election fraud narratives. |
| June 2021 | OAN personality Pearson Sharp delivered a controversial on-air monologue suggesting execution as a solution for those allegedly involved in election fraud, promoting extreme rhetoric about the 2020 US presidential election. |
| April 18 2021 | Rachel Abrams published a New York Times article featuring interviews with current and former OAN employees who criticized the network's reporting as misleading and inaccurate. Subsequently, employee Marty Golingan was fired after participating in the article. |
| March 2021 | United States intelligence community released an analysis revealing that Russian intelligence proxies had helped produce the January 2020 documentary aired by OAN, as part of a broader disinformation campaign targeting narratives about Joe Biden. |
| March 18 2021 | OAN aired a segment revealing New York Times journalist Rachel Abrams' phone number, accusing her of 'fishing for information' and encouraging viewers to contact her. The network's tweet containing the number was later deleted by Twitter for violating personal information rules. |
| February 2021 | Herring Networks was ordered to pay Rachel Maddow and MSNBC $250,000 in legal fees following an anti-SLAPP ruling. |
| February 11 2021 | After Trump left office, OAN aired a 'tribute to his accomplishments' video set to Rudyard Kipling's poem 'If—', created by InfoWars contributor Harrison Hill Smith. |
| February 5 2021 | OAN aired 'Absolute Proof', a film by Mike Lindell containing false claims about voter fraud, prefaced with a lengthy disclaimer attempting to distance the network from the claims. |
| January 2021 | An email from the OAN news director was sent to producers, encouraging them to read stories from far-right websites like The Gateway Pundit, The Blaze, and The Epoch Times for story inspiration. |
| January 7 2021 | OAN's Herring emailed news producers suggesting the Capitol attack might have been caused by Antifa, despite no evidence from the FBI supporting this claim. |
| January 6 2021 | During the Capitol attack, an OAN news director instructed staff not to describe the event as Trump supporters storming the Capitol, instead referring to them as 'demonstrators' or 'protesters'. |
| 2020 | One America News Network extensively covered the Arizona election audit of Maricopa County's 2020 presidential election ballots, promoting the audit through broadcasts and fundraising efforts by hosts Christina Bobb and Chanel Rion. |
| 2020 | OAN extensively promoted conspiracy theories about Dominion Voting Systems manipulating vote totals in the US presidential election, including alleging collusion with antifa activists and spreading false claims about vote switching. |
| 2020 | During the George Floyd protests in Buffalo, New York, Posobiec falsely reported and promoted an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory about pipe bombs. |
| December 2020 | OAN anchor Christina Bobb worked with Rudy Giuliani and Trump campaign officials to create fraudulent certificates of ascertainment in seven states, falsely claiming Trump had been reelected. |
| December 2020 | OAN was included as a defendant in a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer, who claimed the network characterized him as a 'traitor' leading to credible death threats. |
| November 2020 | YouTube suspended OAN for one week and ended its content monetization for advertising a false COVID-19 cure, at a time when the channel had close to 1.5 million subscribers. |
| November 2020 | OAN promoted conspiracy theories about election tampering during the November 2020 presidential election, supporting claims of voter fraud. |
| November 2020 | OAN extensively amplified false claims of election fraud and continued to insist Donald Trump had won the presidential election, even after the Associated Press called the election for Joe Biden. |
| August 2020 | OAN tweeted a controversial promotion claiming demonstrations after George Floyd's killing were a 'coup attempt' to 'take down the President', which Trump retweeted. |
| June 2020 | During George Floyd protests, OAN reporter Jack Posobiec falsely claimed pipe bombs were planted at the Korean War Memorial in Washington D.C., with no actual evidence of bombs or federal pursuit. |
| June 2020 | OAN made unsubstantiated claims about an elderly Buffalo protester being an 'antifa provocateur' after he was seriously injured by police, with Kristian Rouz citing an anonymous right-wing blog as a source. |
| June 13 2020 | Protesters gathered outside OAN headquarters in San Diego, California, where OAN's Herring Sr. challenged them to disprove their controversial reporting about the Buffalo protester incident. |
| May 2020 | OAN host Liz Wheeler claimed without evidence of a 'deadly surge' in COVID cases after the Wisconsin Spring election, which was later rated 'Pants on Fire' by PolitiFact. |
| April 2020 | John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment harshly criticized OAN, describing it as a combination of far-right wing talking points and low-quality reporting. |
| April 2020 | Rion was expelled from the White House Correspondents' Association and had her formal seat removed for violating social distancing rules in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room. |
| March 2020 | OAN chief White House correspondent Chanel Rion promoted a conspiracy theory about COVID-19's origin, claiming it originated in a North Carolina lab and alleging that Anthony Fauci funded the virus's creation. |
| January 2020 | OAN named Chanel Rion its chief White House correspondent. |
| January 25 2020 | OAN aired a controversial documentary film titled 'The Ukraine Hoax: Impeachment, Biden Cash, and Mass Murder', which was later investigated by US intelligence as potentially involving Russian disinformation efforts. |
| 2019 | The channel aired the Canadian television film Claws of the Red Dragon, with Steve Bannon as its American distributor. |
| 2019 | English Wikipedia deprecated OAN, determining that the network publishes falsehoods, conspiracy theories, and intentionally misleading stories. |
| 2019 | OAN hired Chanel Rion as a correspondent, who had previously worked as a political cartoonist and was known for promoting controversial conspiracy theories. |
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