A Twitter fact check on claims made by the White House resulted in the Joe Biden administration deleting the tweet. The White House said that the largest increase in Social Security payments for a decade had been achieved “through President Biden’s leadership”.
Twitter adds context to certain political tweet and in this case clarified in a note that Social Security has simply risen in line with inflation, as is required by law. The Express reports that the White House quietly deleted the tweet.
High inflation in June had prompted the rise in Social Security payments. It comes less than a week after Elon Musk finally completed his protracted purchase of the social media giant.
The Tesla and Space-X CEO had claimed, prior to his takeover, that Twitter "obviously has a strong left wing bias". Remarking on the White House tweet, the Twitter account for Reddit’s Wall Street Silver community commented: “Elon’s Twitter fact checked the White House.”
Remarking on the tweet, the Twitter account for Reddit’s Wall Street Silver community commented: “Elon’s Twitter fact checked the White House.”
It added that the payments increasing in line with inflation was “not something to brag about”. Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney from New York tore into Mr Biden for the tweet, saying: “Next year’s Social Security increase will be one of the largest in decades because of Biden's disastrous policies, which have caused prices to rise, fuelled record inflation, & cut it into critical retirement savings.”
Republican Rep. Vicky Hartzler of Missouri also turned to Twitter to mock the White House’s posting. She wrote: “Biden’s leadership is solely responsible for record inflation, according to the White House.”
A White House official said the tweet was deleted because “the point was incomplete”. They went on to point to a preview of the rise in payments by White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who suggested that it would be around $140 a month (£121) on average.
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