According to a Fox News column by Bobby Burack, published October 29, 2026, online hate and death threats are driving public figures off platforms.
The column, which carries the headline "Online hate is winning," names Pat McAfee, Clay Travis and a doctor with 200,000 X followers as people who reveal how the problem is affecting public figures, Fox News reported. The summary does not say what specific threats any of them received.
Fox News said the issue reaches beyond public figures. According to the column's headline, the problem runs from Pat McAfee to everyday Americans and young children, a span the outlet presents as the scope of the problem.
The Fox News summary does not identify the platforms involved, the number of public figures who have left them, or the specific threats described. Fox News did not provide those details in the summary, and the material available for this report does not add them, so they cannot be confirmed here or described beyond what the column states.
The headline carries the name Bobby Burack, while the author field for the piece is blank in the record used for this report. Fox News is the only outlet cited, and the account is presented as the outlet's own reporting.
Fox News reported these claims as its own account. This report relies only on the headline, summary and publication details of the Fox News column, and it does not independently confirm the statements attributed to Pat McAfee, Clay Travis or the doctor.