Axios slammed for saying Harris policy is not price controls, after calling similar policies price controls [Video]

X users slammed a recent Axios article with a “Community Notes” fact-check this week after the outlet rejected the notion that Vice President Kamala Harris’ “price gouging” policy proposal amounts to price controls. 

Readers on the social media platform pointed out that multiple other Axios pieces – including one from the same author defending the Democratic presidential candidate’s new proposals – called similar policies in other countries “price controls.”

“The same author called it ‘price controls’ when the UK proposed voluntary caps on grocery store profits,” part of the X Community Note stated on Tuesday. 

Harris announced last week that she would institute a “federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries” as president to stop “big corporations” from taking advantage of consumers.

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The headline for Axios reporter Emily Peck’s piece – as it appeared on X – read, “Don’t call it price controls: How price gouging bans really work.”

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