Bezos asks Disinformation Board to fact-check Biden’s own inflation tweet
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Former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos believes President Joe Biden should be subject to his own newly created Disinformation Board after he shared a tweet that appeared to confuse inflation with corporate taxation.
On Friday, Bezos shared the president’s offensive tweet, which he called “error guidance”[ads1];, and clearly asked that it be fact-checked.
“The newly created disinformation board should review this tweet, or maybe they should form a new non-sequencer board instead,” Bezos tweeted in response, claiming that the two problems lacked correlation or causation.
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“Raising corporation tax is easy to discuss. Taming inflation is crucial to discuss. Collecting them is just a mistake,” he added.
WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 5: Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos of the State White House Dining Room May 5, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images) (Getty Images)
In Biden’s first tweet, he asked how one could “bring down inflation” and stated that the answer was to tax the “richest companies” more or force them to “pay their fair share.”
The newly created disinformation board should review this tweet, or they may need to form a new Non Sequitur Board instead. Raising corporation tax is easy to discuss. Taming inflation is crucial to discuss. Running them together is just a mistake. https://t.co/ye4XiNNc2v
Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) May 14, 2022
Biden announced the Department of Homeland Security’s new Disinformation Governance Board, set up to combat disinformation on social media online, earlier this month.
The White House described the board as “impartial” and “apolitical”, but it has since been widely criticized, including shock from FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, who described it as “Orwellian” and “constitutional”.
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Republican officials have also criticized the board and have announced a lawsuit against several states against DHS and the “un-American” board.
Biden’s remark came amid a series of tweets that seemed to try to put the record high inflation witnessed during his administration on former President Trump, Republicans and corporations.
During my first year in office, US agricultural exports broke all previous records – $ 177 billion alone last year.
We must continue to invest in our farmers to reduce consumer prices.
Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 13, 2022
Republicans in Congress are so deeply committed to protecting large corporations that they would rather raise taxes on working American families.pic.twitter.com/1Z0v3YTNyC
Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 13, 2022
In April, inflation in the US rose by 8.3 percent from a year ago, and was approaching a record high for several decades, the Ministry of Labor announced.
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On Wednesday, the Ministry of Labor said that the consumer price index, a generally accepted measure of the price of groceries, rose 8.3 per cent in April from a year ago. The gain was barely below the peak of 8.5 percent from year to year which was registered in March.
President Joe Biden speaks on Sunday, May 1, 2022, at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. (AP Photo / Jacquelyn Martin) (AP Photo / Jacquelyn Martin / AP Newsroom)
“Inflation is far too high, and we understand the difficulties it causes, and we are moving fast to bring it down again,” Governor Jerome Powell said last week.
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Bezos has increasingly used Twitter as his billionaire rival Elon Musk seeks ownership, following a $ 43 billion acquisition that has not yet been completed.
Fox Business’ Megan Henney and Talia Kaplan contributed to this report.
