Tarn 🧩

After Elon pinned this post to his profile, the disinformers at WaPo and Rolling Stone got to work attacking him for sharing my graph of raw govt data. IDK if they're lying or just incompetent, but they published blatant factual errors in these anti-Musk articles. This expanded version of the original graph will clearly demonstrate the two most egregious false claims. - False Claim 1: Number of Births has never been greater than number of border Encounters. -- Fact 1: Number of Births has ALWAYS been greater than number of Encounters, until September 2023. -- CBP began using Encounters as a metric in FY2020. You can also easily calculate Encounters yourself going back to FY2012. So "always" here means for the entire existence of the Encounters metric. - False Claim 2: Many of those Encounters led to people being Expelled from the country. -- Fact 2: Literally ZERO Expulsions happened in any month where Encounters exceeded Births. Title 42 had already expired. If you're going to attack someone over data, maybe don't make up abject nonsense that anyone can easily disconfirm in 2 seconds. That used to be called basic journalism.