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.

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    4 days ago

    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?

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      4 days ago

      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.

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          3 days ago

          After 20 years of nobody having heard of my favorite, entirely too long to recommend, book series, I am an absolute shill for the show. (Without the “smart enough to get paid for it” part.) 😆