{"id":167229,"date":"2022-11-22T20:32:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T20:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=167229"},"modified":"2022-11-22T20:32:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T20:32:46","slug":"twitter-gives-white-house-another-fact-check-for-deficit-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/twitter-gives-white-house-another-fact-check-for-deficit-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter gives White House ANOTHER fact check for deficit claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Twitter gives White House ANOTHER fact check for claim the Biden administration &#8216;lowered the deficit with the single largest one-year reduction in American history&#8217;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The White House is fact checked over claims about the deficit reduction<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It claimed it had overseen the the biggest ever annual reduction<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>But Twitter added a fact check comment after social media users cried foul<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It pointed out that this year&#8217;s deficit is still the fourth biggest in history\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The White House was pinged by Twitter after claiming the Biden administration was responsible for the biggest ever annual reduction in the deficit &#8211; with a context note pointing out that the difference between the federal governments income and expenditure was still the fourth biggest in history.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the first time that White House claims have been fact checked on Twitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mostly recently officials deleted a tweet that took credit for a record increase in social security payments after users pointed out that it was an automatic raise based on high inflation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This time around it came after the White House said: &#8216;The Biden-Harris Administration lowered the deficit with the single largest one-year reduction in American history.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Officials have frequently talked up a\u00a0$1.4 trillion reduction in the deficit.<\/p>\n<p>But Twitter users were quick to point out all was not as it seemed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/11\/22\/19\/64823565-11457637-image-a-13_1669145958425.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration on Monday took credit for a history reduction in the deficit &#8211; or the difference between government spending and income &#8211; but Twitter users soon cried foul<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/11\/22\/19\/64823557-11457637-image-a-14_1669146033344.jpg\" height=\"513\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The tweet was quickly appended with user-generated context, pointing out that the deficit was still historically high and any reduction was exaggerated by the impact of the pandemic<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 spending and reductions in tax revenues had distorted things in the two previous years they said, making this year&#8217;s deficit decrease something of a return to normal.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time the overall debt continues to increase and this year&#8217;s deficit is still historically big.<\/p>\n<p>The result was an extra message of context added to the original post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Readers added context they thought people might want to know,&#8217; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;COVID-driven deficits in both FY20 and 21 were roughly double the previous record (09), making the drop to FY22 sizeable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But the FY22 deficit is still the fourth largest in history and is 41 percent larger than FY19.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the White House\u00a0forced into an embarrassing Twitter climbdown, deleting a tweet that claimed President Joe Biden was responsible for seniors getting the biggest increase in Social Security checks in a decade.<\/p>\n<p>As fact checkers were quick to point out, the increase is based on the rate of inflation and required by law.<\/p>\n<p>At first, Twitter added a note to the original tweet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/11\/02\/17\/64123039-11382657-image-a-11_1667411511355.jpg\" height=\"810\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the White House boasted about increases in Social Security payments. A day later the tweet had been deleted after Twitter added a fact check<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/11\/02\/18\/64123041-11382657-image-a-1_1667415029238.jpg\" height=\"743\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The mistakes come at an embarrassing time for the White House, as Twitter&#8217;s new owner Elon Musk has worried Democrats with promises to reduce restrictions on users<\/p>\n<p>By lunchtime the following day the message had been deleted.<\/p>\n<p>The trouble began with a tweet from the official White House account.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Seniors are getting the biggest increase in their Social Security checks in 10 years through President Biden\u2019s leadership,&#8217; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Part of that is true. Next year Social Security benefits will rise by 8.7 percent next year, which is the largest cost-of-living adjustment since 1981.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Policy experts on Twitter were quick to suggest the Biden administration was claiming credit for something that happened automatically &#8211; and which reflected historic levels of inflation.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter then added its fact check note.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Seniors will receive a large Social Security benefit increase due to the annual cost of living adjustment, which is based on the inflation rate,&#8217; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;President Nixon in 1972 signed into law automatic benefit adjustment tied to the Consumer Price Index.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>It included a link to the relevant legislation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s opponents delighted in the confusion.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11457637\/Twitter-gives-White-House-fact-check-claim-record-one-year-deficit-reduction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter gives White House ANOTHER fact check<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":167228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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