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Right-wing media falsely claim FBI, Biden administration are “cooking the books” on crime data
Fox host Greg Gutfeld cited a report published in the Washington Examiner to falsely claim that recent FBI crime data is a “lie” and that Democrats “bribed the FBI to publish this”
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Right-wing media are suggesting that the FBI is releasing incorrect data to show crime is decreasing to help President Joe Biden win the 2024 presidential election.
Conservative media figures are citing a report from the Washington Examiner that points to data showing that crime is up since 2019, claiming that this proves the FBI 2023 crime data is misleading. Yet the piece agrees that there has been a drop in crime from 2022 to 2023, which is what the FBI analysis says.