RETURNING CONTEXT TO THE FOREFRONT OF NEWS
(RE)METTRE LE CONTEXTE AU PREMIER PLAN DES NOUVELLES
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We are two students dedicated to fact checking only FOX News. As we enter an election year in the US, we hope to limit "one line" consumption of news by returning context to the forefront.
Nous aimons nos lecteurs et lectrices françaises! À IN[F]OX, nous voulons donner une meilleur compréhension des motivations de FOX News pour le public francophone et discuter de comment FOX News approche la France.
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Ce poste de Fox News mentionne seulement qu’il y a eu un événement dangereux sans trop de contexte. Il citant un représentant du gouvernement et montre un homme très blessé. Cependant, il ne dit pas à son public quel est le danger en question. Donc, nous donnons le contexte nécessaire pour comprendre ce qui se passe. L’article de Fox connecte l’augmentation des crimes des squatters avec celle des migrants illégaux dans la ville de new york. Ces deux statistiques pourraient être corrélées, mais il n'y a aucune preuve d'un lien de cause à effet. Cette affirmation cible les migrants et rejette la responsabilité sur un groupe d'individus pour un fait dont il n'est pas prouvé qu'il soit lié à eux. Dans ce “fact-check”, nous donnons plus d'informations sur les droits des squatters pour mieux comprendre la vérité.
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Concerns About Fox News' Reporting of this Story:
Fox News is linking increased squatter crimes to increased number of illegal migrants in New York City. Their claim is based entirely off correlation of these two statistics, and they do not provide any direct evidence of causation. The danger of hypothesizing that increased migration causes squatter crime without evidence is that it can make migrants a scapegoat for people justifiably upset about squatter crime.
"Squatting issues could flare even further in New York as the state has seen a flood of illegal migrants in New York City as the migrant crisis continues spiraling under the Biden administration.
At least 7.2 million illegal migrants have entered the U.S. since Biden took office in 2021, which is more than the population of 36 individual states.
More than 175,000 migrants have arrived in New York City over the last two years, city officials said in February". (FOX NEWS)
The Counter-Argument to the 'Migrant Crime Wave' Narrative in New York City:
"Quantifying crimes committed by migrants is nearly impossible, because the police are not allowed to ask about a suspect’s immigration status, said Kenneth Corey, a former chief of the department who retired in 2022. But police data indicate that there has been no surge in crime since April 2022, when Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas started sending buses of migrants to New York to protest the federal government’s border policy.
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More than 170,000 migrants have arrived in the city since then, and it is difficult to know what crime statistics would show had they not come. But as the migrant numbers have increased, the overall crime rate has stayed flat. And, in fact, many major categories of crime — including rape, murder and shootings — have decreased, according to an analysis of the New York Police Department’s month-by-month statistics since April 2022". (Maria Cramer, Maria Sánchez Díez, and Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner for the New York Times)