White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended the Biden administration deleting a tweet that had been marked misleading by Twitter, claiming that it lacked context usually added by the administration’s digital team.
The White House wrote in a now-deleted tweet on Tuesday that “seniors are getting the biggest increase in their Social Security checks in 10 years through President Biden’s leadership.”
WHITE HOUSE DELETES TWEET AFTER GETTING FACT-CHECKED BY TWITTER
Twitter eventually added a label prior to the White House’s deletion stating that “readers added context they thought people might want to know.”
“Seniors will receive a large Social Security benefit increase due to the annual cost of living adjustment, which is based on the inflation rate,” the addition continues. “President Nixon in 1972 signed into law automatic benefit adjustments tied to the Consumer Price Index.”
Asked about the decision to delete the tweet after it was marked by the company Wednesday, Jean Pierre responded that 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, for seniors, Medicare premiums will decrease, even as their Social Security checks increase,” she continued. “So those are the types of contexts that would normally be with a tweet like that. It did not have that context. It was an incomplete tweet, as I just mentioned. And so that’s why you saw the digital team take that action further.”
Jean-Pierre additionally claimed that “MAGA Republicans” are proposing putting Social Security and Medicare “on the chopping blocks.”
President Joe Biden himself made a similar claim while campaigning for Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) and Rep. Charlie Crist (D-FL) in Florida on Tuesday.
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You can watch Wednesday’s briefing in full below.
