Post Misrepresents Which Administration Sent Stimulus Checks to Dead People

Para leer en español, vea esta traducción de Google Translate. Quick Take Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, some stimulus checks were sent to people who had died. The issue was explained in government reports and the media when it happened in 2020. But a social media post has resurrected the issue and falsely claimed that it occurred during the Biden administration. It actually happened during the Trump administration. Full Story Disinformation dealers often rehash old claims in order to stir up reactions from their followers on social media. For example, one recent post on Facebook revisited an issue from 2020 and added a new, false twist. The post came from OpenTheBooks.com, a project of the nonprofit organization American Transparency, which has recently been featured by two conservative outlets, the Epoch Times and Newsmax, that have a history of spreading false claims. The post said: “Biden paid 2.2 million dead people $3.6 billion during the covid pandemic.” It’s not true that the payments happened during the Biden administration. But here’s what is true about the old issue that the post is reviving. On March 27, 2020, shortly after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, then-President Donald Trump signed the...