[dsparkman]

The CPI is a propaganda tool. It is designed to keep the real inflation hidden to make it seem that inflation is not a real thing to worry about. Because it is formulated in secret, they can manipulate it to give a fairly rosy picture. The published CPI never panics.

[ausbah]

the process is literally posted on the Bureau for Labor Statistics site [1], it's like the second result on Google

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/questions-and-answers.htm

[imtringued]

The CPI absolutely crashed in April 2020

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi

[junippor]

Do you have any actual evidence of this?

[spacemanmatt]

I wish I had a dollar for every irrational (extremely emotionally charged!) response to this same question when I have posed it.