Bezos calls on Disinformation Board to fact-check Biden's own inflation tweet

FAQ - New Privacy PolicyTownhall editor Katie Pavlich and Washington Times Opinion editor Charles Hurt discusses Biden blaming Putin, Pandemic, GOP, and everyone else for inflation but himself on ‘WSJ at Large.’Former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos believes President Joe Biden should be subject to his own newly devised Disinformation Board after he shared a tweet that seemed to conflate inflation and corporate taxation.On Friday, Bezos shared the president’s objectionable tweet, which he labeled "misdirection," and plainly called for it to be fact-checked."The newly created Disinformation Board should review this tweet, or maybe they need to form a new Non-Sequitur Board instead," Bezos tweeted in response, claiming the two issues lacked correlation or causation. https://t.co/ye4XiNNc2vBiden announced the Department of Homeland Security’s new Disinformation Governance Board, which was created to combat disinformation in online social media posts, earlier this month.The White House described the board as "nonpartisan" and "apolitical," but it has since been widely criticized, including knocks from FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, who described it as "Orwellian" and "unconstitutional."FCC COMMISSIONER SAYS BIDEN’S 'DISINFORMATION BOARD' IS 'UNCONSTITUTIONAL'Republican officials have also criticized the board and have announced a multi-state lawsuit against the DHS and the "un-American" board.Biden’s remark came amid a series of tweets that seemed to try to pin the record inflation witnessed under his administration on former President Trump, Republicans, and corporations.During my first year in office, American agriculture exports shattered all previous records—$177 billion last year alone.We have to keep investing in our farmers to reduce prices for consumers.Republicans in Congress are so deeply committed to protecting big corporations that they would rather raise taxes on working American families.pic.twitter.com/1Z0v3YTNyCIn April, inflation in the U.S. surged 8.3 percent from a year ago, nearing a decades-long record high, the Labor Department announced.BANK OF AMERICA ANALYSTS SLASH S&P 500 PROJECTIONS AS 'SPECTER OF RECESSION' LOOMSOn Wednesday, the Labor Department said the consumer price index, a widely-accepted measure of the price for everyday goods, rose 8.3 percent in April from a year ago.