Reuters and CNBC Report a 90-Day Tariff Pause That Wasn't
CNBC ran a breaking-news banner saying adviser Kevin Hassett had said Trump was considering a 90-day pause on tariffs for every country except China. Reuters repeated the claim, citing CNBC.
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CNBC ran a breaking-news banner saying adviser Kevin Hassett had said Trump was considering a 90-day pause on tariffs for every country except China. Reuters repeated the claim, citing CNBC.
Wire services and NPR reported a U.N. expert's finding that the U.S. was holding over 100,000 migrant children in detention, presented as current Trump-era practice.
In January 2018 Reuters reported a government-sponsored study that found violent crime in Germany rose about 10 percent in 2015-16 and attributed most of that rise to young male refugees. In June 2018 Reuters covered Trump's statement that migration was changing Europe's 'culture'. Contemporaneous fact checks described his claim that German crime was 'way up' as inaccurate.
A week before the election, outlets widely reported the burning of Hopewell M.B. Church, a historically Black church in Greenville, Mississippi, spray-painted with 'Vote Trump', as a likely racially or politically motivated hate crime.