CHICAGO (AP) — You won’t get a check in the mail for filling out this year’s census as claims circulating on social media suggest.
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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1299153
inaccurate posts on sites including Facebook and Twitter
Which begs the question: Why aren’t Zark Muckerberg and Dack Jorsey instructing their minions to take them down on contact? You’d think it’s as if they simply don’t have the technology to do it, that, “golly gee gosh, folks, our hands are just tied.”
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Darn, and here I spent hours submitting those 35 census responses today.
I’m just not cut out to be a Republican, I guess…
“The inaccurate posts on sites including Facebook and Twitter urge people to respond to the census. They claim if you do so you will receive one of the stimulus checks that the federal government is considering sending to American households to buffer the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.”
Is there anyone who trusts information from FB or Twitter? …those staunch defenders of free speech and the Constitution!!! If there are, they must be wearing red hats or devoted viewers of Fox News.
I had a 34-story mother-in-law-apartment complex built in my backyard. These are all legit. I’m just carrying these to the mailbox for them.
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