2024-04-09 12:06:30
President Javier Milei generated controversy by referring to inflation data provided by an X account, during an interview with Alejandro Fantino, on radio Neura. According to Milei, this data indicated a significant price dropbut the account in question, @bot_jumbo, later detailed that the numbers were fake and that the account was part of a social experiment.
🔥 Milei explaining the drop in prices to Fantino with cotobot, jumbobot, excellent, very simple things to explain something complex. pic.twitter.com/wdg2oo1c4H
— Austrian School of Economics 🇦🇷🇨🇴 (@DiegoMac227) April 8, 2024
In the interview with Alejandro Fantino, Milei expressed confidence that his government would successfully combat inflation, citing price figures allegedly provided by an ex-Twitter account.
In that sense, he pointed out that «70% of Argentines have no doubts» that the fight once morest inflation will be successful, an expectation that he said he widely shared: “I have no doubt.”
“Are you guided by that?” Fantino asked him, to which the president responded: «“I’m looking at the numbers all the time, Alejandro.”
“It’s deflation, there is a drop in Fantino prices,” the libertarian celebrated and anticipated that “the inflation rate is going to collapse and fall like a piano.” «“Are you confident that in September or October you will have it on track?” the journalist asked him and Milei was blunt: “Don’t have any doubts.”
However, minutes later came an even bigger surprise when the aforementioned account He posted a video of Milei’s interview segment and explained that the data he uses is false.
This account is a social experiment. It never analyzed prices, nor was there any bot that followed Jumbo products.
But it did serve one thing: to see the need that many have to show results that reality denies them.
This bot will self-destruct in 3, 2, 1… pic.twitter.com/H4ntaLzWky
— Jumbot (@JumboBot) April 9, 2024
«This account is a social experiment. “It never analyzed prices, nor was there any bot that followed Jumbo products,” he said. firstly the anonymous author of the account. And then he added: «But it did serve one thing: to see the need that many have to show results that reality denies them. This bot will self-destruct in 3, 2, 1…”
This episode generated surprise and criticism, since Milei cited false data as true in an important interview on a crucial topic like inflation. The situation underlined the importance of verifying the source of statistical information before using it as a basis for political arguments or decisions.
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