The Social Security Administration is cutting staff from its communications office, and will rely on social media posts instead of press releases to update the media and the public.
Social Security Commissioner Linda Kerr-Davis told employees in a call Thursday that regional offices will no longer issue press releases or letters. Instead, the agency will be using X to communicate to the press and the public.
Is there not some kind of law regarding general access to government notices? I shouldn’t have to sign up for a private website to keep up with public services.
How dare you question? Off to El Salvador.
Understandable, I’ve never said thank you even once.
Probably not even wearing a suit smh
Is there not some kind of law
Maybe. But nobody’s willing to enforce it anyway.
That needs to be illegal immediately
snap "it’s illegal. "
-But… But nothing changed?
Since when has the Trump administration cared about following the law or had any consequences for breaking them?
Elon’s wet fucking dream
Well, it was fun paying into it for 20 years. Glad I never calculated the payout as part of my retirement strategy.
that’s smart because your core audience who would most be interested in your communications totally use social media /s
also you can’t even fucking view posts unless you’re logged on
Great. Social Security incels.
Because X is definitely the right place for that, and something older generations will have access to and know how to use…
Can we stop this timeline now?
Yeah… This is literally designed to hurt people and help Twitter. Some of my older family members don’t even have a smart phone. And if they do the only social media they use is Facebook.
Everyone involved in this decision should be shot.
What happened to all the republicans crying about “government shouldn’t be picking winners and losers”? Oh right, they’re hypocritical little shits that should be in the ground.
So tired of everything trash because like a third of the country has less emotional maturity than a toddler.
Republicans pick winners and losers in their misanthropic hierarchy. Now they own the government, so the government is them.
Nazi government uses Nazi platform. We did see this coming.
Why is this not a conflict of interest?
I feel like that whole concept flew the coop a looong time ago
???
Musk’s long term corporate welfare strategy is forcing all government functions to be subcontracted out through his companies. His companies wouldn’t have long term stability without subsidies, this is literally all he knows.
No I get Musk. What I don’t get his which bonehead decided that was a good idea with no backups.
Musk decided.
I am still trying to understand how this is a relevant technology post to the world
Twitter, the web site that is broken if you don’t have an account? That’s seriously fucked up.
It’s also broken if you try to use Firefox to access it
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… a social media post is NOT an official government communication. I don’t mind it being used in addition to public channels to help spread the word further, but if you are going to use one platform then you should be required to use all of them to ensure all affected people receiving the same information… and I don’t see them posting on Bluesky or Mastodon or even Reddit.
