Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will not participate in a town hall on Fox News, saying Tuesday that she turned down an invite to go on the conservative network. “Fox News is a hate-for-profit racket that gives a megaphone to racists and conspiracists ― it’s designed to turn us against each other, risking life & death consequences, to provide cover for the corruption that’s rotting our government and hollowing out our middle class,” Warren wrote in a series of tweets.

ASSOCIATED PRESS Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is not going to do a town hall on Fox News.

She said Fox News tries to sell itself as a “reputable news outlet” by mixing its “bigotry, racism, and outright lies” with some legitimate journalism in order to bring in ad money. “A Democratic town hall gives the Fox News sales team a way to tell potential sponsors it’s safe to buy ads on Fox ― no harm to their brand or reputation (spoiler: it’s not),” she said. “I won’t ask millions of Democratic primary voters to tune into an outlet that profits from racism and hate in order to see our candidates ― especially when Fox will make even more money adding our valuable audience to their ratings numbers.”

Fox News is a hate-for-profit racket that gives a megaphone to racists and conspiracists—it’s designed to turn us against each other, risking life and death consequences, to provide cover for the corruption that’s rotting our government and hollowing out our middle class. — Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) May 14, 2019

Hate-for-profit works only if there’s profit, so Fox News balances a mix of bigotry, racism, and outright lies with enough legit journalism to make the claim to advertisers that it’s a reputable news outlet. It’s all about dragging in ad money—big ad money. — Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) May 14, 2019

Fox News did not immediately return a request for comment. Warren’s decision is a notable break from fellow progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who was the first 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to agree to a Fox News town hall. His decision to do so came a few weeks after The New Yorker published a lengthy investigation outlining the extensive ties between Fox News and the Trump administration, two entities that swap staff and take their cues from each other. In an April interview with HuffPost, Sanders said he believed that Fox News was largely a propaganda arm of the White House, but that he still thought it was important to talk to its viewers and say President Donald Trump had lied to them.