{"id":1727620,"date":"2022-11-07T06:10:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T11:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1727620"},"modified":"2022-11-07T07:05:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T12:05:55","slug":"twitter-fact-checks-bidens-claims-about-gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-fact-checks-bidens-claims-about-gas-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Fact Checks Biden&#8217;s Claims About Gas Prices"},"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\">16<\/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%2Ftwitter-fact-checks-bidens-claims-about-gas-prices%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=1727620&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/original_biden_fact_check.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>                Yet again, President <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/its-nuanced-white-house-refuses-to-own-rising-gas-prices-after-taking-credit-for-lowering-them\">Joe Biden has taken credit for lowering gas prices<\/a>, to which he received a &#8220;fact check&#8221; from Twitter&#8217;s Birdwatch function.<\/p>\n<p>In a Sunday morning tweet, the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/watch-biden-downplays-inflation-crisis-despite-massive-consumer-price-increases\">79-year-old president<\/a> said &#8220;Right now, the most common price at gas stations across the country is $3.19 per gallon. That&#8217;s progress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/en_us\/topics\/product\/2021\/introducing-birdwatch-a-community-based-approach-to-misinformation\">Birdwatch, &#8220;a community-based approach to misinformation&#8221;<\/a> that was launched in January 2021, flagged Biden&#8217;s post with added context.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Biden is referring to the &#8216;most common gas price&#8217; as opposed to the average gas price of $3.800 (11\/6\/22). The most common is the &#8216;mode&#8217; gas price. Neither are wrong and politicians tend to reference the one that is lower. The mode diminishes high gas states from the equation,&#8221; said the note.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is like bragging about lower radiation levels in Hiroshima in 1946,&#8221; wrote the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Links to the <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/\">American Automobile Association<\/a> website and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/why-the-most-common-gas-price-is-far-from-average-11666949402\">Wall Street Journal article<\/a> explaining the difference between the mode and average gas prices were also linked as sources by the community fact-checker.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;most common&#8221; price that Biden toted is still significantly higher than the average gas price at the tail end of the Trump administration, which was about $2.30 per gallon, according to the gas price tracking program <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gasbuddy.com\/charts\">GasBuddy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the Biden administration\u2019s celebrations over the drop in gas prices, they also fail to acknowledge that average gas prices are up from last year, which was $3.20.<\/p>\n<p>The fact-check comes just days after Biden accused new Twitter owner <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/former-twitter-employees-air-their-grievances-after-elon-musks-mass-firings\">Elon Musk<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/biden-claims-twitter-under-elon-musk-spews-lies-all-across-the-world\">&#8220;spew[ing] lies all across the world&#8221;<\/a> at a Democratic fundraising event in Illinois.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update: The Birdwatch note was later removed.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet again, President Joe Biden has taken credit for lowering gas prices, to which he received a &#8220;fact check&#8221; from Twitter&#8217;s Birdwatch function.In a Sunday morning tweet, the 79-year-old<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1727623,"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":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"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\/1727620","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1727623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}