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Trump and Musk are eliminating 90% of Social Security’s regional staff—and, at the same time, will now only post public updates from Social Security on a platform owned by Musk, where more than 90% of seniors won’t see them. Corrupt, cruel, and wrong.

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SCOOP: The Social Security Administration (SSA) will be shifting its public communication exclusively to X, sources tell WIRED. This comes as agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.

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X is not a form of public media or a legitimate government communication vehicle. This just has to be illegal for a government agency. Communications can’t be restricted to a for profit social media platform owned by the guy who bought the president.

Official Social Security communications should be on its official site. No way should it be on any social media as the source of truth.This is HEINOUS. Plus, a lot of seniors wouldn’t see it on Twitter/X because they don’t use it much anymore as it’s a cesspool nowadays,not because they’re Luddites

I'm perfectly fine with this. This is what they voted for. They cheered and pushed and posted for this ONLY because they were CERTAIN it wouldn't hurt them personally. They refused to listen. Actively argued against ANYONE who told them otherwise. They wanted this. Let the leopard feast.

And what is Congress doing about it? People have lost a lot of their retirement thanks to tariff stunts and now they’re going to lose their social security. And no one is stopping him. Who thought having a dictator in the US would be so easy?!

The problem is Trump "owns" the majority in Congess. So while plenty of democratic heroes are working their butts off, theyre massively outnumbered and outpowered

I should not have to sign up for a private app run by a repugnant individual to receive SS updates. I also should not have to watch two billionaires destroy Social Security.

I'm now on Soc Sec I was stalked and hounded, accused of illegal activity on X for almost a year by an individual who just opened new account after new account when I blocked him. X would do nothing to stop it. I deleted my account in 2021. I'm not getting SSA 'updates' on that trash site. Never.

This, of course, is an effort to force people to X. I think Congress needs to enact a law requiring all Federal agencies to post all official communications on their official websites. They are free to repost these communications to social media sites and if so must use multiple sites.

The only remarkable thing about the corruption and cronyism in our government isn’t the scale of it, but rather the “in your face” lack of shame by which they are promoting acts that are designed to hurt or disenfranchise so many people.

This will leave so many vulnerable elderly people open to being scammed by the many nefarious scumbags who have found sanctuary on that appalling site. Utterly disgraceful.

That's ridiculous. Social Security has its own website. I canceled my account on X. No court is going to uphold this B.S. Social Security can send mailings to senior citizens if need be. Not one cent of my money or one minute of my time will be used on any possession/company of the IgnoraMusk.

Not acceptable. SSA traffic does not belong on a biased personal platform. At a minimum, that sort of traffic would have to be made available simultaneously on ALL platforms.

Thats their strategy. Nonstop onslaught of evil so noone can keep up enough to do anything. By the time you get a process start for evil act 1, THEYRE IN THE MIDDLE OF EVIL ACT 30

Oh the corruption is just off the charts. Someone needs to charge both Musk and Trump. How more obvious does it need to be - the guy working for trump (despite being never elected nor confirmed) is giving himself govt contracts. Is there a different definition of corruption?

Why wouldn’t this be illegal? To force people onto a platform for their own information. When it’s already on one that they know and use. Can you say “monopolize?”

How can this be legal? Posting our personal information from a government agency on to a social platform run by a power hungry billionaire? We entrusted our money to a government run fund not to Elon musk. The government is controlled by the people not musk, trump & doge.

Just say they are "shutting down Social Security" so Elon can get a tax cut. To the vast majority of Americans these moves are effectively shutting it down, so just put it and simply and bluntly as possible. If GOPers want to dispute it, let them try.

This is so wrong and yet completely in line with this corrupted Republican administration. Congress do your frickin job! Afterall these are your constituents who gave you the job and they can take it away. I hope they do.

Buying books of stamps and sending them letters every day until it is changed. Government doesn’t know what to do with snail mail - let it pile up until they stop being idiots. Bombard them with paper…

I know what it is, but refuse to be forced to get on that vile platform. Can you imagine how many non-savvy seniors could be taken advantage of by accidentally going to the wrong site? I'm sure X will be rife with look-alike sites, ready to steal even more private data?

I don’t get why they can’t post to other locations. Send the email. It’s copy and paste. There are platforms that post to each location at the same time, different times whatever you want. This is just lazy for no other reason than to hurt others.

Its not lazy its about control. X is dying because Musk is evil. Just like Tesla. He used his shell company to buy it out, now he's using the govt to save X

It’s an egregious abuse of power as well as a conflict of interest. Please enlighten us as to what you and your colleagues in Congress plan to do about it. I have great respect for you, please stop telling us what we already know and focus on what you are doing to put a stop to it.

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Ok. *This* has to be illegal. The White House *backing* a corporation? Giving *this* business to someone working for the White House? Really? I'm 83. I got off Twitter(it will always be Twitter) on January 19th before the *death* of this nation was inaugurated. I will NOT support Musk! #Twitter

This is obscene. What the hell happened to the republicans? Every one of them staying silent while a madman sets fire to our country is complicit. It feels like a long way off right now, but there will be a reckoning. And history will not look kindly on these cowardly men and women.

We are receiving messages that this is not true about Trump and Musk and only having SOCIAL SECURITY information on X. Please confirm with us ASAP. We don’t know what to believe anymore and those of us who are seniors must have access to our Social Security.

Agreed! It is unsafe for this type of information is everyone’s first argument. Start writing your letter that personally states your points, including impacts to family & friends! We will send to your 2 Senators & rep! We will also send to the relevant committee members!

I don't have X. Why does fElon have the authority to post Social Security updates on X? That cannot be legal. Please sue fElon Musk for this. Get his hands out of the cookie jar. It is not his money.

Sen. Booker, Musk cares little for his wealth losses YTD bc the data he has and is obtaining will make him far wealthier than he already is in the new age of AI. Data is the gold/oil of the 21st century & it is *completely corrupt* to require people to participate in a priv org for public info

WTF!! Trump is destroying the Social Security System! Why? NO ONE VOTED FOR THIS!! Is he trying to send us all over the edge so there is a nationwide uprising so he can declare an emergency and then start firing on Americans as he wanted to before during BLM protests? This is on you republicans!!

I would NOT want my Mother to see the toxic hate on a platform I left because of the toxic hate. I’m approaching senior years, and to this day , I have never used the f word around her. Twitter? Gezus It’s a great time to be Canadian.