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Biden administration officials put pressure on the fact-checking website Snopes to change claims that the government was going to ban gas stoves over climate change concerns.
Fox News Channel reported Thursday on internal emails unearthed in a Freedom of Information Act request by the GOP-leaning watchdog group Functional Government Initiative.
In January 2023, Snopes initially rated claims that the Biden administration was going to ban gas stoves over climate change concerns as a 'mixture' of fact and fiction.
Richard Trumka Jr., a Biden-appointed member of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, had told Bloomberg News in an interview on January 9, 2023, that a gas stove ban was 'on the table' - setting off a firestorm of criticism.
Behind-the-scenes, CPSC communications director Pamela Rucker Springs told White House assistant press secretary Michael Kikukawa that she had approached Snopes and asked that their fact-checking assessment be changed.
Biden administration officials put pressure on the fact-checking website Snopes to change claims that the government was going to ban gas stoves over climate change concerns
Richard Trumka Jr. (left), a member of the Consumer Product Safety Commission who was appointed by President Joe Biden (right), told Bloomberg News that a gas stove ban was 'on the table'
But Snopes eventually rated the claim that the Biden administration was going to ban gas stoves over
