{"id":1722052,"date":"2022-11-02T16:19:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T20:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722052"},"modified":"2022-11-02T16:19:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T20:19:51","slug":"white-house-deletes-tweet-after-twitter-placed-fact-check-disclaimer-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-deletes-tweet-after-twitter-placed-fact-check-disclaimer-on-it\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Deletes Tweet After Twitter Placed Fact Check Disclaimer On It"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-deletes-tweet-after-twitter-placed-fact-check-disclaimer-on-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722052&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The White House deleted a post on Twitter after the platform placed a fact check on it, two years after the company allowed the Democrat\u2019s presidential campaign to go an entire election unchecked. <\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the White House claimed credit for a raise in Social Security payments as a triumph of leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeniors are getting the biggest increase in their Social Security checks in 10 years through President Biden\u2019s leadership,\u201d the White House tweeted. <\/p>\n<p>Twitter published a Disclaimer on the post, however, clarifying that the scheduled raise in payments is due to record-high inflation, and a corresponding inflation-based adjustment that was attached to the checks in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeniors will receive a large Social Security benefit increase due to the annual cost of living adjustment, which is based on the inflation rate,\u201d Twitter\u2019s \u201ccontext\u201d label noted. \u201cPresident Nixon in 1972 signed into law automatic benefit adjustments tied to the Consumer Price Index.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House deleted the post in response, after the face check showed how the post amplified the administration\u2019s own failures. <\/p>\n<p>Multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/1675\/most-important-problem.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">polls<\/a> show economic issues, namely sky-high inflation, at the top of voters\u2019 minds heading into the polls next week. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/cpi.nr0.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According<\/a> to the Department of Labor in October, the overall Consumer Price Index for September increased 8.2 percent since the year before. Americans paid 8.2 percent more for the same basket of goods in September than 12 months ago, with prices for food up more than 11 percent and energy up nearly 20 percent. <\/p>\n<p>White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre claimed at a Wednesday press briefing that the tweet was published prematurely before she condemned \u201cMAGA Republicans in Congress and their continued threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tweet was not complete,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">KJP asked why <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WhiteHouse<\/a> deleted tweet flagged by Twitter that credited Biden for SS payment increase<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The tweet was not complete\u2014Usually when we put out a tweet, we post it with context. [\u2026] Let&#8217;s not forget [\u2026] about MAGA Republicans in Congress &#038; their continued threat.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VzOCWCxh4y\">pic.twitter.com\/VzOCWCxh4y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Breaking911\/status\/1587870759963295745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2022<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Twitter\u2019s fact check Disclaimer follows new leadership at the Silicon Valley tech giant, ushering in a potential cascade of changes to the website\u2019s content moderation policies. Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of SpaceX and Tesla, bought the company and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-twitter-scrapped-board-of-directors-parag-agrawal-private-2022-10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">became<\/a> its sole director last week after a months-long court battle to complete the purchase. <\/p>\n<p>While Musk has branded his takeover of the company as a crusade to open up the platform as a haven for free speech, skepticism ensued Wednesday after the new Twitter chief <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/02\/elon-musk-taps-jussie-smollett-hoaxer-for-twitter-censorship-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sought advice<\/a> from a left-wing activist with a history of championing fake news and offered support for one of the app\u2019s corporate censors.<\/p>\n<p>In the late hours of Tuesday night, Musk named individuals advising him on content moderation, including Rashad Robinson, president of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/color-of-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">leftist group Color of Change<\/a>. Robinson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rashadrobinson\/status\/1092967548054790145?s=20&#038;t=cViM8eBPoCqqjC-6SC3Qog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">repeatedly<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rashadrobinson\/status\/1090715566523011072\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0tweeted<\/a>\u00a0support for \u201cEmpire\u201d actor Jussie Smollett after the disgraced celebrity <a href=\"https:\/\/thefdrlst.wpengine.com\/2020\/02\/12\/jussie-smollett-indicted-on-six-counts-of-disorderly-conduct-after-faking-his-own-hate-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">falsely claimed<\/a>\u00a0to be the victim of a racist and homophobic hate crime.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/02\/elon-musk-taps-jussie-smollett-hoaxer-for-twitter-censorship-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elon Musk<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House deleted a tweet claiming credit for hikes in Social Security payments after it was slapped with a fact check from Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1722055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1722055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}