The Biden administration is reserving praise only for those who play by their new stringent Covid-19 rules. The latest to earn the praise is a shocking one, it’s Fox Corp. According to a new memo from Fox human resources chief Kevin Lord, all employees will face their choice of vaccination or daily Covid testing.

According to CNN Business:

Lord told staffers that after the company asked employees to report their vaccination status, more than 90% of full-time Fox staffers “reported that they are fully vaccinated.” Lord then explained that “soon” the company will introduce daily testing for the staffers “who are not vaccinated or have not provided their vaccination status.” Lord said “additional details about this protocol” would be “shared with the relevant employees in the near future.”

In effect, Fox has adopted a more stringent version of the vaccine and testing mandate President Biden announced last week — the mandate that the company’s loudest voices have trashed and deemed to be nonsensical and “authoritarian.” While Biden pushed a vaccination or weekly testing requirement, Fox is saying it will implement a vaccination or daily testing requirement for unvaccinated staff.

All of this has prompted the White House to offer some praise to the Rupert Murdoch-controlled company, while also issuing a challenge to it: “Today’s news from Fox News follows a trend we’re seeing across the country: vaccination and testing requirements work,” a White House spokesperson told me Tuesday night. “We are glad they have stepped up to protect their workforce and strengthen the economy, and we encourage them convey to their audience that these types of practices will protect their employees, their communities, and the economy…”

Last week the Biden administration announced that companies with over 100 workers would be forced to either be vaccinated to subject to regular testing. The mandate is expected to impact over 80 million Americans and has drawn some sharp pushback from conservatives across the country.