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** Biden Tests Campaign Themes
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We review all speeches and remarks made by President Joe Biden, just as we have done for other presidents before him.

Lately, Biden has been giving a series of campaign-style speeches, so we decided to compile a story on some of the new claims that he has been testing for his 2024 campaign.

The result: "FactChecking Biden’s Campaign-Style Speeches ([link removed]) ."

In speeches in Chicago on June 28 and in New York on June 29, Biden touted the success of his economic policies, which he calls “Bidenomics,” and talked about his efforts to diversify the federal courts.

We found, for example, that Biden wrongly claimed to have “appointed more African American women” to federal judgeships than “every other president combined,” and that he exaggerated the impact of the Inflation Reduction Act on reducing carbon emissions.
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FactCheck.org Managing Editor Lori Robertson represented us at Global Fact 10 ([link removed]) , the annual gathering organized by the International Fact Checking Network.

This year, the fact-checking conference was in Seoul, South Korea, from June 28 through June 30.

The featured speakers included Yoel Roth, former head of trust and safety at Twitter, who spoke about the platform's evolving content moderation rules and provided an insider account ([link removed]) of personally imposing those rules on then-President Donald Trump for the first time in May 2020.

Twitter "permanently ([link removed]) " banned Trump on Jan. 8, 2021, a move that was ultimately reversed ([link removed]) by Elon Musk not long after he purchased Twitter.

"There was a lot leading up to the decision, first to restrict the president’s account on January the 6th, and then ultimately to ban him on the 8th," Roth said. "But it’s worth putting it in this broader context of it took a long time for Twitter to figure out what its moderation approach here would be, and it was painful."
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Reader: Is Biden using SSI funds to support the war in Ukraine?

FactCheck.org Director Eugene Kiely: No. In fact, Social Security's total cost is no longer covered by its total income, so the federal government does not have any extra Social Security tax revenue that can be used to fund other programs (as it had done in the past).

The federal government for the first time in its history had to borrow money in 2010 to cover Social Security benefits to retired and disabled workers. We wrote about that in our story "Democrats Deny Social Security's Red Ink ([link removed]) " in 2011.

And that has been the case ever since.

In its short-range forecast for 2023 through 2032, the Social Security trustees said costs will exceed revenues for the foreseeable future.

"Under the Trustees’ intermediate assumptions, Social Security’s total cost is projected to be higher than its total income in 2023 and all later years," the trustees said in its 2023 annual report ([link removed]) . "Total cost began to be higher than total income in 2021. Social Security’s cost has exceeded its non-interest income since 2010."


** Wrapping Up
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Here's what else we've got for you this week:
* "Posts Misleadingly Equate Gun Case Against Hunter Biden With Rapper Kodak Black ([link removed]) ": Hunter Biden, who has no prior criminal history, has reached a plea deal that would avoid jail time for a gun-related charge. Some conservative commentators claim the president’s son is getting special treatment, misleadingly equating his case with one involving a rapper who had a criminal record before getting a 46-month sentence for two gun-related charges.
* "Social Media Posts Fabricate a Political Endorsement by Altering Lady Gaga Photo ([link removed]) ": Lady Gaga campaigned for Joe Biden during the 2020 election and performed at his inauguration. But viral social media posts use an altered photo to falsely make it appear she has endorsed Donald Trump for president in 2024. The performer, who has been highly critical of Trump, has not made a public endorsement in the 2024 race.

Y lo que publicamos en español ([link removed]) (English versions are accessible in each story):
* "Video de TikTok manipula estimaciones de la Sociedad Americana Contra el Cáncer sobre el cáncer de mama ([link removed]) ": El cáncer de mama ha aumentado gradualmente en mujeres jóvenes en las últimas décadas. Pero una publicación en las redes sociales tergiversa las proyecciones de casos para 2022 y 2023 y afirma falsamente que muestran un aumento drástico del cáncer de mama de aparición temprana para luego vincular sin fundamento sus comparaciones erróneas con las vacunas contra el COVID-19.
* "No hay ‘bombazo’ sobre los orígenes de COVID-19, la inteligencia de EE. UU. refuta afirmaciones sobre trabajadores de laboratorio ‘enfermos’ ([link removed]) ": Aún se desconoce el origen del virus que causa el COVID-19, pero muchos científicos creen que lo más probable es que se deba a un contagio natural. Publicaciones en línea han citado fuentes no identificadas para afirmar que los primeros en enfermarse de COVID-19 fueron científicos en Wuhan, China. Pero la inteligencia de EE. UU. dice que los síntomas de los investigadores no eran específicos o consistentes con el COVID-19 y que la información no tiene relación con el origen de la pandemia.

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