Former CNN host Brian Stelter blamed a lack of leadership at Fox News for the network turning into the personal propaganda machine of former President Donald Trump.

Fox Chairman Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan are to blame for the spread of Trump's big lie that the 2020 Presidential Election was stolen, and they have not apologized or demonstrated any regret, according to Stelter and his new book Network of Lies.

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"Nobody was in charge," Stelter told the crew of The View while promoting his book. "That's a really distressing thing to think about. At a television network, you want to have stars on screen. You want to have behind-the-scenes producing and executives who are holding everybody responsible."

That is not how it works at Fox News, according to Stelter, who compared the conservative-leaning network to CNN.

"I know at CNN, if I went on the air and I started lying about something, I would be held accountable," he said. "Well, that didn't happen at Fox. The opposite happened."

"They were actually encouraged to keep these stories going because ... good for the ratings, good for the bottom line, and because nobody was in charge."

The attachment between Fox News and Trump became so interwoven that when Trump lost, the network lost too, Stelter said.

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"It's a lesson for all of us not to get too personally invested in something to the point where you're going to go off and believe these crazy conspiracy theories because that is what happened inside Fox," he said.

"You have, in the book, I use Rupert Murdoch's deposition in the Dominion case; he was just deposed this week in the Smartmatic case, so it's been an avalanche of legal accountability for him, but he says to the Dominion lawyers, he says, you know ... It's a terrible thing for people to believe falsehoods ... It's a terrible thing for people to believe lies ... and yet he let it happen."