{"id":1722097,"date":"2022-11-02T16:48:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T20:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722097"},"modified":"2022-11-02T16:48:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T20:48:49","slug":"white-house-deletes-tweet-after-getting-humiliated-by-fact-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-deletes-tweet-after-getting-humiliated-by-fact-check\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Deletes Tweet After Getting Humiliated By Fact-Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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-getting-humiliated-by-fact-check%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=1722097&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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/biden-administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden administration<\/a> deleted a tweet on Wednesday after it was fact-checked because it was missing key context.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeniors are getting the biggest increase in their Social Security checks in 10 years through President Biden\u2019s leadership,\u201d the administration claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter\u2019s Birdwatch program, which has existed for a while, attached a note to the tweet noting that the reason seniors have gotten an increase is because of the inflation rates that have exploded under Biden.<\/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 the note said, which included a link to the U.S. Social Security Administration. \u201cPresident Nixon in 1972 signed into law automatic benefit adjustments tied to the Consumer Price Index.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why did the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WhiteHouse<\/a> delete this tweet? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sVQYCGMtXt\">pic.twitter.com\/sVQYCGMtXt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Bednar (@MarkBednar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkBednar\/status\/1587832790577463299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed that the reason the administration deleted the tweet was because it was \u201cnot complete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">\u201cLook, the tweet was not complete. Usually when we put out a tweet we post it with context, and it did not have that context,\u201d Jean-Pierre said. \u201cSo in the past, we\u2019ve pointed out that for the first time in over a decade, seniors\u2019 Medicare premiums will decrease even as their Social Security checks increase. That\u2019s a little bit of context that was not included.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The administration was mocked online after they deleted the tweet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncredible,\u201d political strategist Matt Whitlock tweeted. \u201cThe White House\u2019s dumb tweet celebrating the increase in social security checks gets a Twitter fact-check \u2014 because they left out the fact that the increase was caused by inflation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Commentary magazine editor Noah Rothman tweeted: \u201cThe Biden White House has officially deleted the tweet where they take credit for 8% annualized inflation. But screenshots are forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did the White House delete this tweet?\u201d RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel tweeted. \u201cIf Biden wants \u2018credit\u2019 for inflation, he has it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Failed Libertarian vice presidential candidate Spike Cohen tweeted: \u201cWhite House: seniors are getting the biggest SS increase in 10 years. Context-checkers: That\u2019s because inflation is the highest it\u2019s been in decades. White House: *deletes tweet*\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cohen then falsely suggested that the fact-check was added to the tweet because of new Twitter CEO Elon Musk. Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/en_us\/topics\/product\/2021\/introducing-birdwatch-a-community-based-approach-to-misinformation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">started<\/a> their \u201cBirdwatch\u201d program in January 2021, more than 20 months before Musk bought the company.<\/p>\n<p>The Birdwatch notes are \u201cwritten by people who use Twitter, and appears when rated helpful by others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-claims-he-spoke-to-insulin-inventor-theres-just-one-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden Claims He Spoke To Insulin Inventor. There\u2019s Just One Problem.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration deleted a tweet on Wednesday after it was fact-checked because it was missing key context. \u201cSeniors are getting the biggest increase in their Social Security checks in 10 years through President Biden\u2019s leadership,\u201d the administration claimed. Twitter\u2019s Birdwatch program, which has existed for a while, attached a note to the tweet noting &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1722100,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1722097","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1722100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}