OUR White House deleted the post Twitterin which the company added a clarification about the accuracy of the information contained therein, a few days before the midterm elections in USA.

“The increase in old-age pensions is the largest in ten years thanks to President Joe Biden,” reads this post on the official White House account.

But then a clarification was added: pensions should be linked to inflation based on a law signed in 1972 by Republican President Richard Nixon.

The original post, which was later retracted, “was not complete,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre admitted.

Twitter “footnotes” are written by independent Birdwatch users and added to the original post if many people find them “helpful”. “The algorithm takes into account not only the number of users who find the footnote helpful or not, but also whether those people represent different opinions,” Twitter explained in an October 6 announcement when it launched the program in the US.

“The community footnote system is great,” Elon Musk, the platform’s new owner, told one user. “Our goal is to make Twitter the most trusted source of information on Earth, regardless of your political affiliation,” he added.

^{Source: APE-MEB, AFP.}