Fox News has spent years claiming that Inflation Reduction Act policies will make energy more expensive. It was wrong.
Fox News figures for years claimed the Inflation Reduction Act would increase energy costs. In reality, the IRA spurred major clean energy innovation and reduced energy costs for millions of families. And studies now say that repealing the act and its clean energy tax credits — as the Trump administration’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” would do — would increase household energy costs.
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News organizations are scrambling to find a coverage approach that adequately informs the American public about the country’s slide from democracy to authoritarian rule.
Related Knowledge Center: Information integrity
In an increasingly fractured media landscape, truth has been a casualty in the public discussion. Coverage has been warped by the business needs of struggling news organizations, and a significant segment of the public relies on bad-faith outlets that are little more than propagandists. While fact-checking has become routine, some organizations are exploring other ways to combat the trends. And misinformation spewed by AI-driven chatbots has become more of a feature than simply a bug.
Fact-checking and its detractors
Related Knowledge Center: Fact-checking and its detractors
Fact-checking has become a familiar tool for political reporters to hold office-holders and candidates accountable. But critics ask if fact-checkers sometimes miss the forest for the trees, and if the practice often struggles with false equivalency the way conventional political coverage does.