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Twitter community adds a context note to White House tweet:  The official Twitter account for the White House tweeted, “The lowest unemployment rate in 50 years." The tweet included a tweet from White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients that read "THE LOWEST UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN 50 YEARS" and included a tweet from political strategist Donna Brazile that read "Statement from President Joe Biden on the December Jobs Report" and linked to a White House statement. Twitter added a label to the post that read "Readers added context they thought people might want to know.” The added context read "Unemployment rate of 3.5% in 12/22 also occurred in 1/20 & 2/20, all 50-year lows. bls.gov/charts/employm… This is one of three connected measures to gauge job market health (bls.gov/news.release/p…). The others: Participation rate: 63.3% in 2/20 & 62.3% today, bls.gov/charts/employm… Employment-population ratio: 61.1% & 60.1%. bls.gov/charts/employm…" The label is part of Twitter’s Community Notes system. Twitter users are able to sign up as contributors to add context to tweets.

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