How Fox News Channel Invented The Biden 'Burger Ban'
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Update (4/26/21 4 p.m.): This piece has been updated, to include Fox News anchor John Roberts' on-air correction Monday.
After a right-wing British news site introduced a blatant lie about President Joe Biden's green-energy and infrastructure proposals â fraudulently suggesting that the administration is attempting to limit people to having one hamburger a month â Fox News then stepped up as the venue to amplify it into a much wider and frankly embarrassing discourse with its American audience.
In doing so, the network's purported "news"-side personalities are just as guilty as the officially billed opinion hosts, who have all contributed to this fake story now being spread by high-level Republican politicians. For one, the Biden administration does not have a specific plan yet âbut rather an outline of goals to reduce emissions, with a focus on transitioning to clean-energy infrastructure. There is nothing about mandating a virtual end to meat consumption â nor would there ever be in any eventual plan from an administration in the real world â not that the network's anchors would acknowledge such facts.