US President Joe Biden gets fact-checked by Twitter for making a false claim on what he called “the most common” gas price which was a top voter issue during the midterm elections on Tuesday.
Last November 6, the president posted a tweet saying, “Right now, the most common price at gas stations across the country is $3.19 per gallon. That’s progress.”
However, Twitter users blasted the president after they noticed that “the most common price” is actually far from the average price, which President Biden failed to distinguish.
In the data released by AAA, it suggested that the average U.S. price for a gallon of regular gasoline is $3.80 as of Nov. 6 which was actually more than 60 cents higher than that cited by the US President.
“Only two states across the nation, Georgia and Texas, had an average price of regular gasoline under $3.19 on Sunday, while the majority of states were between $3.50 per gallon to $4.00 per gallon, according to the gas prices tracker,” Patriot Alert reported.
Right now, the most common price at gas stations across the country is $3.19 per gallon. That's progress.
— President Biden (@POTUS) November 6, 2022
After President Biden’s post went viral on Twitter, it caught the social media platform’s fact checkers, prompting them to add “context” from its experimental fact-checking program and explained what the “most common” gas price means.
Twitter posted a note, linking to a Wall Street Journal report and AAA regarding the price gapover the two measures of typical gas prices.
“Biden is referring to the ‘most common gas price’ as oppose [sic] to the average gas price of $3.800 (11/6/22). The most common is the ‘mode’ gas price. Neither are wrong and politicians tend to reference the one that is lower. The mode diminishes high gas states from the equation,” reads the Twitter fact-checked post.
Since billionaire Elong Musk became the of the social media giant, Twitter has already fact-checked the president twice.
On October 28, Biden claimed that “55” big corporations nationwide paid no taxes for 2020. However, Twitter fact-checkers corrected it and affirmed that “only 14” of them were eligible to be taxed.
President Biden also incorrectly claimed during a speech last October that the price of gasoline was over $5 a gallon when he entered the White House, despite the then-average price of regular gasoline being just $2.39.
“The average national retail price topped $5 for the first time ever this June, about a year-and-a-half after Biden took office,” the report added.
