Editing Fox News (section)

===Crime reporting===
[[Media Matters]] reported in September 2024 that during the Biden presidency Fox News had promoted a false "crime crisis" narrative, particularly directed toward undocumented migrants, which reflected Donald Trump's political rhetoric. The Fox News narrative consisted of reported violent crime anecdotes rather than FBI crime rate statistics showing violent crime had declined significantly since 2020. One Fox host, [[Ainsley Earhardt]], said that even if the FBI data were right, "we're all a little bit more scared than we used to be." Later that month, weeks before the 2024 presidential election, the FBI released crime data for 2023 showing that violent crime had declined 3% from 2022. The report was widely covered by mainstream news outlets that day, though the Fox News coverage was limited to a 28-second segment by evening anchor [[Bret Baier]]. He reported "critics say the report is not accurate because it does not include big cities," echoing a false assertion made by [[Elon Musk]] and other Trump supporters on social media.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gertz |first1=Matt |title=Fox's "crime crisis" narrative imploded at the debate and the network is furious |url=https://www.mediamatters.org/crime-and-criminal-justice/foxs-crime-crisis-narrative-imploded-debate-and-network-furious |publisher=Media Matters |date=September 11, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Passantino |first1=Jon |last2=Reilly |first2=Liam |title=Did you know violent crime is down? Not if you're watching right-wing media |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/24/media/violent-crime-report-fbi-right-wing-media-fox/index.html |publisher=CNN |date=September 24, 2024}}</ref>