Stephen Moore
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6878

X community adds a context note to economist Stephen Moore post: The X account for Stephen Moore posted "The Trump vs. Biden Income Showdown Under Trump, households saw a $6,000 rise. Under Biden, households have experienced a $2,000 fall. That's an $8,000 yearly difference! Remember this when you vote." The post included graphs labeled "Trump Household Income $6,800 Gain" and "Biden Household Income $2300 Lose." The X community added a note to the post that read: "Readers added context they thought people might want to know. The graphs used are misleading and do not measure the same income data. One is median income by year. Simply the middle income in the data set. Also missing the data for 2020. The other reflects change in real avg weekly income which accounts for CPI and inflation. bls.gov/news.release/r…" The label is part of X’s Community Notes system. X users are able to sign up as contributors to add context to posts. X owner Elon Musk shared that any post with a Community Note added to it will be demonetized. The Community Notes account on X also posted that notices will be pushed to users who previously engaged with a post when a Community Note is added to it later. 

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