The
day before yesterday, The White House posted a Tweet touting an increase in Social
Security benefits for seniors and crediting Joe Biden for it.
The
text of the tweet read as follows.
“Seniors
are getting the biggest increase in their Social Security checks in 10 years
through President Biden’s leadership,”
By
Wednesday morning, Twitter which has recently been acquired by Elon Musk, added context notes pointing
out that the increase was tied to a 1972 law requiring automatic
increases based on the cost of living changes.
The
context annotation noted that the record increase in benefits was linked to
inflation, which is at its highest point in 40 years.
https://twitter.com/RealSpikeCohen/status/1587873137269637120
In
other words, Biden’s White House was bragging about what is an unfortunate
situation that has arisen due to the mismanagement of the economy.
It was gravely insensitive to the suffering citizen but it would be unwise to expect compassion or empathy from Democrats.
This was the political self-goal of the Biden administration, hence the Tweet was deleted. By Wednesday, the tweet no longer appeared on the White House’s Twitter timeline
This was hence an act of great insensitivity and foolishness, but whet else can you expect from the Biden adminsitraiton.
White
House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre referred to the deleted tweet during a
press briefing Wednesday, saying the following:
“Look,
the tweet was not complete. Usually, when we put out a tweet we post it with
context, and it did not have that context”
“So
in the past, we’ve pointed out that for the first time in over a decade seniors’
Medicare premiums will decrease even as their Social Security checks increase.
That’s a little bit of context that was not included.”
This wasn’t the only occasion that Twitter provided context for claims made by Biden’s White House.
Three
days ago, Joe Biden’s official Twitter @POTUS claimed that 55 corporations made $40
billion in 2020 and "paid zero in federal taxes."
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1586153339640766464
Twitter then added context noting that Biden’s Inflation
Reduction Act imposed a minimum tax on corporations with average pre-tax
earnings greater than $1 billion.
The context annotation also noted that of the 55 corporations mentioned by President
Biden, only 14 had earnings greater than $1 billion and would be eligible under
Biden’s tax law.
The note cited a 2021 analysis by the Washington Post, Reuters,
ITEP which is a non-profit tax policy organization, and the Congressional
Research Service (CRS) website for reference.
https://twitter.com/MeganFoxWriter/status/1586530769589374976
Biden’s original tweet still remains available.
So why is this suddenly happening on Twitter that was the bastion
of the left?
Time for some context.
Back on October 14th, 2020, the New York Post carried
myriad reports
on the shady business dealings of Hunter Biden enabled by his father
Joe Biden when he was Vice President under Barack Obama.
The NY Post also carried a report on Hunter Biden's laptop
that contained emails, text messages, and financial documents which proved that
Biden, as Vice President, used his influence to reap large profits for his
family.
The laptop also had photos of drug-addled Hunter and in
flagrante delicto with a prostitute. There were text messages of Hunter
using racist language.
At that point, various prominent personalities on MSNBC, NBC, The
Washington Post, The
Daily Beast, CNN, and
The New York Times joined forces to discredit the story. NPR, which is
funded by tax dollars, claimed there were “red flags” in the Post’s story.
https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1320515611810795520
51 former senior intelligence officials have signed on to a letter claiming that the emails
allegedly revealed by the NY Post had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian
information operation”.
Both Twitter and Facebook took extraordinary censorship
measures to suppress these shocking exposés about Hunter
Biden’s emails. Twitter baselessly claimed that the source was “hacked
materials” as an excuse to suppress an inconvenient story.
Twitter users who clicked the link on Twitter were shown
an alert warning
claiming the webpage may be “unsafe” and could contain content that would
break Twitter’s rules if it were shared directly on the platform.
Twitter blocked users from sharing the link to The NY Post’s
reports.
Finally, on October 14th, 2020, Twitter locked the NY Posts account. The official
Trump campaign Twitter account was also after it posted clips relating to the NY
Post story.
The NY Post account was eventually unlocked on 30th
October, but it was
probably too late, the damage was already done.
This wasn’t a traditional election where a majority voted on election
day. For the 2020 Presidential elections, an unprecedented 69%
of voters cast their votes either by mail and/or before Election Day.
The blocking of this information obviously has an impact.
A news buster poll revealed
that 16% of Biden voters would have voted differently had they known
of Hunter’s laptop.
This suppression of key information was an act of meddling in
the 2020 Presidential Elections. This was done purposefully and maliciously.
They may want to claim it was erroneous.
After they had archived their objective of installing Joe Biden
in the White, Twitter had to pretend to take remedial actions
Hence they introduced Birdwatch
in January 2021 which allows users to identify information in Tweets they
believe is misleading and write notes that provide informative context. In
other words, this is a community-based fact check or context-providing service. This facility is
available to US users only.
The service hadn’t yielded much output.
However, these recent fact-checks of Biden’s and The White
House’s account show that things, maybe, just maybe changing a bit.
Perhaps Elon Musk's aquisition fo Twitter contributed to this?
Musk seemed to approve of Birdwatch.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587798343622737925
The action taken by Twitter was nowhere close to what was done to President Trump or the NY Post.
Twitter didn’t actually fact-check the accounts in question
or suppressed information or lock any account.
They merely provided context. Twitter didn't compel either of the Twitter accounts to delete their tweets. The White House voluntarily
deleted it because it made Biden look bad. In a strange way, the context actually helped the Biden administration.
Yet there were perhaps the first instances of a Democrat-based
account on Twitter receiving some notification about the veracity of their
claims and that seemed enough.
It was enough for right-leaning users to celebrate.
Some wondered that the results of the 2020 elections would have been different had Musk acquired Twitter in 2020.
The reason is that oppression becomes systemic and prolonged and even a slight semblance of equal treatment seems like a luxury.
The hope is all these platforms truly become a platform for
free expression with minimal regulation.
This should be among the priority items for the GOP when they
take back the House and the Senate following the mid-terms.
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