Every White House team seeks to pressure the media into more favorable coverage. It’s only natural to discover Team Biden can have their way in influencing liberal operations to edit things they’ve already posted. But it usually happens on the “down low,” where there’s no proven connection.
Thomas Catenacci at FoxNews.com reported on Thursday that Snopes.com changed a rating on of their fact checks from “Mixture” to “False” in an article headlined “Is Biden Administration Banning Gas Stoves Over Climate Change Concerns?”
Nur Ibrahim of Snopes noted 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 origina …