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The Social Security Administration (SSA) unveiled Thursday that it would use the social platform X to make announcements going forward, instead of traditional press releases or memos typically posted to the agency’s website.

https://archive.ph/aWZeE

    • jonne@infosec.pub
      4·
      10 days ago

      Looking forward to seeing a bunch of octogenarians trying to figure out Twitter on their phones.

    • Natanael@infosec.pub
      2·
      9 days ago

      Appealing bans by suing them over first amendment right to petition (yes it covers more than freedom of speech)

  • Artyom@lemm.ee
    1·
    10 days ago

    Kind of crazy to me that governments aren’t massively interested in hosting their own fediverse instances. It has huge appeal of providing announcements on a broader platform while also controlling your instance and still being from a .gov source.

  • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
    1·
    10 days ago

    * for press releases and announcements

    Headline makes it sound like internal communications, but that’s not the case at least currently. Still, we shouldn’t rely on third party services for important info - especially one that sometimes requires login to view

    • courageousstep@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      Yeah, and most non-Nazis have long left the platform and deleted their account. The log-in issue is a huge one. It effectively blocks a massive portion of the US from getting important information about money that is theirs.

  • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
    1·
    10 days ago

    Using Twitter violates my religious beliefs. What’s the option for me to view these announcements? Recall that “Christian” corporations have successfully argued that being required to fill out a form because their health insurance won’t cover birth control is a burden on their religious beliefs.

    • Bonus @lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      They’ve been saying this for other fed agencies from the get go so, yes?

  • zippo@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    10 days ago

    wow really hoped this was just the onion fucking with me again

  • reddig33@lemmy.world
    1·
    10 days ago

    Need a government bill forcing all federal comms like this to go over the government’s own federated instance (with RSS please).

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    10 days ago

    “I know this probably sounds very foreign to you — it did to me as well — and not what we are used to, but we are in different times now,” she added.

    Blink if you’re in danger.

  • ceenote@lemmy.world
    0·
    10 days ago

    As embarrassing as this is, if this bit of appeasement even slightly diminishes the damage they’re going to do to the SSA then I’m okay with it.