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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.

wired.comThe Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to XThe SSA's shift to Elon Musk's X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.

The letters and press releases were a crucial communications tool for SSA employees. It could also impact people receiving benefits who rely on the letters for information about access benefits. “Do they really expect senior citizens will join this platform?” asked one current employee.

wired.comThe Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to XThe SSA's shift to Elon Musk's X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.

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Senior citizens can be web savvy, we shouldn't dismiss them all there. But how many swastika posts and N word posts are we going to subject them too? Because that platform has no moderation and is a hate fest. Putting the SS in SS.

Elon Musk, who is leading the charge to radically reduce the size of the federal workforce on behalf of President Trump, bought X (then Twitter) in October 2022. The platform has for years battled the spread of misinformation. The full scoop here:

wired.comThe Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to XThe SSA's shift to Elon Musk's X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.

Well, if car buyers are reluctant to buy cars from a guy who gives multiple enthusiastic Nazi salutes, he is going to have to find some other way to replace the income, and monetizing his role in dismantling our government is his Plan B

"The platform has for years battled the spread of misinformation." Guys, the current owner of Twitter uses it regularly and aggressive to lie and encourage the spread of misinformation.

"The platform has for years battled the spread of misinformation." WRONG. INSTEAD: "Prior to Musk's purchase, the platform had battled for years against the spread of misinformation. After his purchase, those efforts ceased, with disinformation amplified and Musk himself being the worst offender."

The platform doesn’t battle misinformation it spreads it, and Nazi hate, and white nationalism. It’s shit all the way around and what info will they post that wouldn’t be on the website. DOGE missed another Musk ripoff oh, I forgot, that’s the feature.

WTF? "The platform has for years battled the spread of misinformation." Come on, @wired.com, just stop. Where are your editors? Rolling Stone "The tech billionaire always had a problem with telling the truth — now he has an entire social network built on lies" www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

rollingstone.comHow Elon Musk and X Became the Biggest Purveyors of Online MisinformationA timeline of how Elon Musk has turned X into a misinformation weapon that spews falsehoods about migrants, gender, health and elections.

Hopefully,that's a typo on Wired's part "battled the spread of misinformation"? X IS the definition of that.Wired better do some quick damage control on that one before it loses any credibility it may have had! Bad enough I thought the announcement was a JOKE!Then to read that- more than I can take!

Hours later, the agency responded to the Wired report with a post on X: “This is false. Social Security will continue to communicate through any and all mediums.” Social Security @SocialSecurity 7:45 PM · Apr 11, 2025 357.7K Views

The epitome of cynicism: Elon Musk claims to be shocked by the level of Tesla hate—conveniently forgetting the litany of scandals under his watch, from racial discrimination to sexual harassment allegations in Tesla factories www.aol.com/elon-musk-sa...

aol.comElon Musk says he's shocked at the level of Tesla hate and vandalism happening: 'I've never done anything harmful'Elon Musk said the Tesla vandalism shocked him, adding that neither he nor his company had done "anything harmful."

This is absurdly pathetic, cruel and completely unsurprising-step 1 of Musk’s goal for all govt payments to run thru X, including SS if they continue to exist. Hope we can rely on media and others to share info. Never going back to X. Hell can freeze over. Congress pls help!!

I am not on Twitter, never have been, never will be. This is a blatant attempt to get naive seniors onto a right-wing propaganda platform. I am a senior, but even I am not that stupid.

Hours later, the agency responded to the Wired report with a post on X: “This is false. Social Security will continue to communicate through any and all mediums.” Social Security @SocialSecurity 7:45 PM · Apr 11, 2025 357.7K Views