The US Bureau of Labor Statistics was forced to publicly discredit a fake inflation data report that circulated on Tuesday, just one day before the scheduled release.
The document, which sought to mirror the formatting of the monthly consumer price index report, claimed that annual inflation in June reached 10.2 per cent, much higher than economists’ forecasts of an 8.8 per cent jump compared to the same time last year.
The chart featured in the forged report, however, did not match the text, among other indications that it was fabricated.
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