Under Elon Musk’s leadership, Twitter is already fact-checking the lies spread by the Biden Administration.
The official White House Twitter account credited Joe Biden for giving seniors the biggest increase in Social Security checks in a decade.
Twitter added a fact-check that noted the COLA was mandated by federal law due to the record increase in inflation.
Seniors are getting the biggest increase in their Social Security checks in 10 years through President Biden’s leadership.
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) November 1, 2022
https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1587546267923742725
The tweet was deleted Tuesday morning after getting absolutely humiliated by the facts.
His administration might have gotten away with that on the old Twitter, but there’s a new sheriff in town.
Daily Wire shared a screenshot of the now-deleted tweet:
CNN fact checker, Daniel Dale, even fact-checked Biden: “That’s quite the spin. The size of Social Security checks is linked, by law, to inflation (https://ssa.gov/cola/#:~:text=Beginning%20in%201975%2C%20Social%20Security,value%20from%20Social%20Security%20benefits…). This year’s increase is unusually big because the inflation rate is unusually big.”
Dale also called out Biden for a lie about the increase made in remarks Tuesday, “Biden falsely said today, “On my watch, for the first time in 10 years, seniors are getting an increase in their Social Security checks.” There was an increase (again, tied to inflation!) every year of Trump’s term. Biden has previously done a correct version of this claim -saying it’s the first time in a decade that Social Security checks are up at the same time as Medicare premiums are down. But today’s solo claim that this is the first Social Security increase in 10 years is wrong, even if you ignore that the increases are about inflation.”
Elon Musk commented on the Twitter fact check added to the White House tweet, “The community notes feature is awesome. Our goal is to make Twitter the most accurate source of information on Earth, without regard to political affiliation.”
More from Daily Mail:
The White House was forced into an embarrassing Twitter climbdown on Wednesday, deleting a tweet that claimed President Joe Biden was responsible for seniors getting the biggest increase in Social Security checks in a decade.
As fact checkers were quick to point out, the increase is based on the rate of inflation and required by law.
At first, Twitter added a note to the original Monday afternoon tweet.
By Tuesday lunchtime the message had been deleted.
Fox News also reported:
The White House tweet was accompanied by a note from Twitter that said many readers were adding “context” to the WH message that said the rise in Social Security payments was “due to the annual cost of living adjustment, which is based on the inflation rate.”
Twitter adds “context” notes when they are rated highly enough by Twitter users, a point that Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, stressed Wednesday morning.
“The community notes feature is awesome. Our goal is to make Twitter the most accurate source of information on Earth, without regard to political affiliation,” Musk said.
White House spox, Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about the deleted tweet. Greg Price shared her lame response, “It was not complete. It did not have context.”
And, of course, she sneaked in an attack on MAGA Republicans in Congress.
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