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The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X https://werd.io/2025/the-social-security-administration-is-gutting-regional-staff-and-shifting #uspol #x #leavex

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The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X [Zoë Schiffer at WIRED] The Social Security Administration is changing its communications strategy in a surprising way: > ““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,” said SSA regional commissioner Linda Kerr-Davis in a meeting with managers earlier this week. “Instead, the agency will be using X to communicate to the press and the public … so this will become our communication mechanism.”” X is, of course, a proprietary network that is currently owned by Elon Musk. Users with accounts on X are profiled for its advertising systems; given the links between Musk and the current administration, this might yield a significant amount of information to the government. Forcing citizens to check the network, which, again, is privately owned and supported by advertising, also feels like an enormous conflict of interest. #Democracy [Link] https://werd.io/2025/the-social-security-administration-is-gutting-regional-staff-and-shifting