NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week
Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: Milwaukee's director of elections was not removed from her position for vote rigging in the 2020 presidential election. Election officials say internal matters led to the change, noting there “was no indication of election impropriety” in Milwaukee’s vote. Inflation was not at 9 percent when President Joe Biden took the oath of office, it was 1.4 percent, having risen from a low of 0.1% in May 2020, two months into the COVID-19 pandemic. Businesses owned by white men are allowed to bid on a redevelopment project at New York's John F. Kennedy airport, $2.3 billion in contracts awarded to minority- and women-owned businesses are being misrepresented.