Posted on 12/10/2023 7:24:13 AM PST by Libloather
Critics of the Biden administration on social media appeared grateful after the "Community Notes" feature on X, formerly Twitter, hit White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre with a crowdsourced fact-check.
Conservative X users celebrated the feature for attaching context to Jean-Pierre’s statement about President Biden’s economic policies - dubbed "Bidenomics" - being the cause for "good economic news."
The fact-check asserted that it’s not Biden’s doing that the economy looks better, but rather that the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy are continuing to dissolve.
Jean-Pierre shared the X post after the U.S. jobs report dropped on Friday.
"Today, we got more good economic news. 199,000 jobs created last month," she wrote. "A total of 14.1 million created under President Biden. That’s Bidenomics in action."
However, using the "Community Notes" feature on the platform, a collection of users added information under the post that stated: "It is well documented that nearly 72% of job gains since 2021 are simply jobs recovered that were lost during the pandemic, not created."
As a source, the note shared a U.S. House Budget Committee press release from June saying how job growth under Biden has been "recovery" as opposed to "creation."
"Nearly 72 percent of all job gains since 2021 were simply jobs that were being recovered from the pandemic, not new job creation," according to the release. "In fact, when looking at today’s economy compared to pre-pandemic levels, employment is up only by 3.7 million."
X users celebrated the note after it was tacked onto the post.
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