It has been reported

Social Security Administration Support your plan for cutting telephone servicesBut it still takes steps to limit the ways people will have access to information about the essential agency. The SSA plans to stop issuing communications via normal channels as press releases and will instead make statements exclusively to X.

According to the report, the change became clear during internal meetings between agencies. “We no longer plan to issue press releases or those expensive letters to a colleague to inform the media and the public about the SSA Regional Commissioner Linda Ker-Davis, said cableS “Instead, the agency will use X to communicate with the press and the public.”

The SSA is quite regularly committed to the public, including advocacy groups, through letters of “Dear Colleague” who directly deal with third -party concerns who have questions or concerns about social security issues. They are usually shared with the agency “News” pagewhich includes communications with lawyers, statements from the SSA press center and the agency newsletter. All this seems to disappear and will be replaced by SSA X FeedS

Currently, the agency’s account has just over 138,000 followers. By comparison, around 73 million people (This is about 1 in every 5 Americans) receive benefits for social security of some kind and may be interested in updates on these services.

The transition to the platform of Elon Musk comes after several high -profile cases on the SSA website after the Musk Government Efficiency Department sliced ​​your IT teamS The interruptions have continued the full days at certain points, but the administration claims that this has nothing to do with Doge’s efforts that have already left the agency short staff and shakeS

Anyway, these interruptions will probably be used as an excuse to move communication to X, which was Musk’s preferred platform for communication, even before buying it. In 2020, Musk Tesla’s dissolved press center They completely moved the municipalities of the company exclusively to what was Twitter back then. Shockingly, the company found it very hard to communicate The public and the press.

For Tesla, the change is unclearly justified as the company’s customers are probably a little technological. This is not excellent for social security, which serves mainly for people of retirement age. People can start receiving their full social security benefits for 67 years. Of publicly accessible demographic information about X user base, About 5% of its users are 65 years old or more. So the SSA update audience is not on the platform that the agency will use primarily for communication. It doesn’t look great.