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In a genuine blow to disinformation, the White House deleted its tweet giving President Joe Biden credit for big Social Security cost-of-living increases after Twitter readers added the “context” that seniors’ thanks should actually go to . . . President Richard Nixon, who made COLAs automatic back in 1972.
(To be fair, Biden does deserve considerable “credit” for the record inflation that triggered the COLA bump . . . )
We’re not immediately sure if this is a new Twitter feature, an action some Musk-friendly tech took to show things have changed or what. But Twitter didn’t give the same humiliating treatment to past lies by the account, like the one in May claiming “When President Biden took office .
