The Social Security Administration hasn’t posted a press release on its website since March 27 after having put out releases nearly every day for the previous month.
What gives?
According to a report in Wired, the agency is shifting communications to X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and the person President Donald Trump put in charge of seeking “efficiency” at federal agencies.
“We are no longer planning to issue press releases or those dear colleague letters to inform the media and public about programmatic and service changes,” an SSA regional commissioner announced during an internal meeting this week, according to Wired’s sources.
Social Security spokespeople did not immediately respond to a request for comment from HuffPost. 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.”
As of Friday night, it still had not posted anything new on its press release site.
In recent weeks, queries to the SSA press line have produced responses from White House spokespeople instead of Social Security spokespeople.
Apr 12th 10:07 am
Recent Likes: