Twitter added a discourse enactment to a White House post. That tweet has since been deleted. | Gregory Bull/AP Photo
The White House deleted a Twitter station connected Wednesday touting an summation successful Social Security benefits for seniors aft the societal media level added a “context” enactment pointing retired that the summation was tied to a 1972 law requiring automatic increases based connected outgo of surviving changes.
“Seniors are getting the biggest summation successful their Social Security checks successful 10 years done President Biden’s leadership,” work the tweet, which was posted to the authoritative White House relationship astatine 4:45 p.m. connected Nov. 1. On Wednesday, the tweet nary longer appeared connected the White House’s feed.
A White House spokesperson did not instantly respond to emailed questions astir the removed station to Twitter.
The discourse annotation, which was disposable Wednesday morning, noted that the grounds summation the tweet referred to was tied to inflation, which reached its highest constituent successful 40 years successful June.
“Seniors volition person a ample Social Security payment summation owed to the yearly outgo of surviving adjustment, which is based connected the ostentation rate,” the annotation said, linking to a past of the instrumentality connected the authoritative Social Security Administration website.
According to a statement nether the annotation, “Context is written by radical who usage Twitter, and appears erstwhile rated adjuvant by others.”
Myah Ward contributed to this report.
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