Just from the title, this sounds just like the whole "stores are closing because people are stealing too much" lie that the news was pushing just a year or so a

Just from the title, this sounds just like the whole "stores are closing because people are stealing too much" lie that the news was pushing just a year or so ago. There should be laws stating that news corporations should have reasonable belief that the stories they are telling are based on factual data. Otherwise it's not news, it's make-believe and should be clearly identified as such. For instance, "Cost Billions" and "(Potentially) Cost Billions" are two wildly separate things. I could intentionally "Potentially murder dozens of people" but I will actually only ever intentionally murder 0 people, but if you wanted people to think I was a mad man killing everything in sight, then all you would have to do is put () around Potentially and after the fact say that it was implied.