Posted on 04/11/2024 2:02:46 AM PDT by Libloather
EXCLUSIVE: Biden administration officials successfully pressured fact-checking website Snopes to alter its rating on a fact check it conducted regarding a potential federal ban on gas stoves, according to internal communications.
In early January 2023, Snopes issued a "mixture" rating on the claim that the Biden administration was considering a ban on gas-powered stovetops, citing comments made by a senior official overseeing product regulations. Shortly before the fact check, Richard Trumka Jr., a member of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), said such a ban was "on the table."
"This is a hidden hazard," Trumka told Bloomberg at the time. "Any option is on the table. Products that can’t be made safe can be banned."
A month earlier, Trumka said regulating gas stoves needs to be a priority "whether it's drastically reducing emissions or banning gas stoves entirely" because of their climate and health impacts, CBS News reported.
But Snopes, which originally gave its "mixture" rating as a result of Trumka's statements, changed the rating to "false," stating the CPSC is "not currently considering a ban on gas stoves." Snopes' updated article included additional comments from the CPSC and downplayed Trumka's earlier statement.
However, Snopes only altered its article after pressure from the CPSC to do so, according to emails exchanged between CPSC and White House communications officials and obtained by watchdog group Functional Government Initiative (FGI) through an information request.
"Sent over tough letter to this writer yesterday when the initial claim was rated as 'mixed,'" CPSC communications director Pamela Rucker Springs wrote in an email to White House assistant press secretary Michael Kikukawa Jan. 11, 2023, linking to the updated Snopes fact check.
Kikukawa responded enthusiastically, saying the alteration would be "so helpful going forward."
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In other news, the Biden Administration announced that Snopes with be redesignated as the Department of Truth. A giant white pyramid is under construction to house the new department, which is expected to grow to 30,000 employees. Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is reportedly under consideration for the new cabinet position.
Snopes: that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time. Maybe that’s because they’re already so discredited as a leftist propaganda organ that no one who doesn’t already vote Democrat believes what they say or consults them for “facts.”
And https://www.politifact.com/ certainly majors in conservative claims.
The Politburo dictates FACT, not science or your eyes.
Trumpka Jr. Talk about nepo babies. Daddy was from about 20 miles from my hometown. No one liked him.
So “Snopes” isn’t just biased. He is out and out corrupt.
Trumpka is a straight up communist.
Is Snopes still a major liberal website owned by a husband/wife team who don’t fact check anything, but put out the progressive/communist line?
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