It cited a University of Michigan study that found that Americans reducing their meat consumption would help lower the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. The falsehood began with a Daily Mail article Thursday, titled, “How Biden’s climate plan could limit you to eat just one burger a MONTH.” While noting that Biden has “yet to release any firm details” on his plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, the article speculated on some ways Biden could achieve his goals.
“So you see a bunch of people sharing this thing about the burger and you may not think, ‘Biden is going to literally take away the burgers,’ but you may start to believe the broader point this misinformation is making - the broader point in this case being Biden is super liberal, he’s going to infringe on our liberties, he can’t be trusted.” “One of the things misinformation can do is signal to people that there’s a deeper truth to what’s being claimed, even if people know it’s not literally true,” Effron said.
Effron, a professor of organizational behavior at London Business School who studies the psychology of lies, said that even if people don’t believe a specific falsehood, its mere existence can still help perpetuate a damaging narrative.
The nation experienced 30,573 false or misleading claims over Trump’s four years in office, according to The Washington Post Fact Checker - culminating in the baseless claim that the 2020 election was stolen, which ultimately helped provoke the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. The argument dovetails with a common claim on the right that Democrats are out to ban meat-eating, whether for reasons of health or climate.Īnd the episode underscores how the shadow of Donald Trump’s presidency - rife with misinformation and mistruths and lies - still lingers, providing Republicans with a mendacious road map for demonizing a political rival. They joked privately that White House press secretary Jen Psaki should start her daily press briefing by eating a burger.īut the not-quite-red-meat attack also offers a case study in how a falsehood can rapidly metastasize among Republicans - pushed not only by the party’s fringe but also by more mainstream voices, like former South Carolina governor and potential 2024 hopeful Nikki Haley. To White House aides, the wholly fictional Biden-will-ban-hamburgers story line was in part an amusing flare-up perpetuated by Republicans who have struggled to find ways to successfully attack the president. White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain retweeted a CNN fact check titled, “No, Biden is not trying to force Americans to eat less red meat,” while several press aides tweeted a photo of a grinning Biden flipping burgers at a 2019 Iowa steak fry, along with the caption, “White House to the fact-challenged: where’s the beef?” AFPīy the time President Biden’s aides gathered for their morning meeting on Monday, the juicy whopper of a mistruth making its way around the conservative ecosphere - that Biden’s climate plan would significantly limit America’s hamburger consumption - had officially entered mainstream public discourse.īiden’s team looked for an opportunity to quickly debunk the falsehood. It is infested with armed gangs and drug traffickers who often rob or attack the migrants crossing it. The Darien Gap - a 1,430,000-acre (575,000-hectare) jungle is one of the world's most dangerous routes, according to UNICEF.
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