{"id":67299,"date":"2024-04-14T06:45:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T11:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67299"},"modified":"2024-04-14T06:45:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T11:45:07","slug":"snopes-changed-fact-check-after-pressure-from-biden-administration-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67299","title":{"rendered":"Snopes Changed Fact-Check After Pressure From Biden Administration: Emails"},"content":{"rendered":"

Snopes Changed Fact-Check After Pressure From Biden Administration: Emails<\/a><\/h3>\n
A \u2019tough letter’ preceded the change.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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The fact-checking website Snopes changed one of its ratings after pressure from President Joe Biden\u2019s administration, newly disclosed emails show.<\/p>\n

Snopes on Jan. 10, 2023, said<\/a> that there was some truth to a claim that President Biden\u2019s administration was planning to ban gas stoves.<\/div>\n

Under a heading of \u201cwhat\u2019s true,\u201d Snopes said that \u201cThe U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), a federal agency, is currently considering a ban on gas stoves if they can\u2019t be made safer, due to concerns over harmful indoor pollutants that cause health and respiratory problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under another heading, it said that the ban has not been put in place.<\/p>\n

The article quoted Richard Trumka Jr., a CPSC commissioner, as saying that \u201cany option is on the table\u201d when dealing with gas stoves. \u201cProducts that can\u2019t be made safe can be banned,\u201d Mr. Trumka told Bloomberg<\/a> a few days prior.<\/div>\n
Pamela Rucker Springs, a spokeswoman for the CPSC, hours after the rating was published contacted<\/a> Snopes writer Nur Ibrahim, the newly disclosed emails show. She said she it was \u201cnot accurate to say that CPSC is \u2018considering a ban on gas stoves\u2019 and that Mr. Trumka\u2019s views \u201ddo not represent official statements on behalf of the commission.\u201d<\/div>\n

The CPSC \u201cis not currently considering a ban on gas stoves, though a commissioner said \u2018anything is on the table\u2019 if they can\u2019t be made safer,\u201d the updated article states.<\/p>\n

Ms. Springs sent<\/a> a link to the updated page to White House official Michael Kikukawa, the newly disclosed documents show. \u201cSent over tough letter to this writer yesterday when the initial claim was rated as \u2019mixed,’\u201d she wrote.<\/div>\n

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Snopes Changed Fact-Check After Pressure From Biden Administration: Emails A \u2019tough letter’ preceded the change. The fact-checking website Snopes changed one of its ratings after pressure from President Joe Biden\u2019s administration, newly disclosed emails show. Snopes on Jan. 10, 2023, said that there was some truth to a claim that President Biden\u2019s administration was planning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24218,33574,379,33841,19529,16350],"class_list":["post-67299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-fact-checking-2","tag-gas-stoves","tag-government","tag-narrative-mangement","tag-snopes","tag-the-epoch-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67300,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67299\/revisions\/67300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}