Fox News has issued a series of on-air apologies after Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary made unfounded allegations linking critics of his vast AI data center project in Utah to the Chinese government.
The retraction was broadcast across four separate programs on Fox News and Fox Business over a four-day period, Mediaite reported. During a 45-second segment on The Big Weekend Show, host Johnny Joey Jones said O’Leary had corrected his initial comments regarding the Stratos Project data center development. O’Leary had appeared on Fox May 24 to discuss the ongoing furor over his Utah data center project.
“He made certain claims relating to the opponents of his project. Mr. O’Leary has now corrected the record,” Jones said, adding that the Shark Tank star had “no evidence” that his opponents to the project “are funded by China or the Chinese communist party.”