The Trump administration’s alarming tendency to dismiss objective facts as “fake news”, which can be countered with their own “alternative facts”, has led to claims that the President and his team could seek to politicise US statistics. While falsifying or supressing economic data is possible in some authoritarian developing countries, where availability of underlying source data is patchy and the methodology is opaque, it would be much harder, if not impossible, to pull off in the US.
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