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This effort involved adding missing death dates and updating citizenship details."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The agency added 17 million death dates to its records and updated 25 million records that lacked citizenship information. An additional 8.5 million records with inaccurate citizenship status are also slated for correction. The SSA described this as the most comprehensive cleanup in its 91-year history."},{"type":"heading","text":"Disagreement on the impetus for the cleanup"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The Washington Sun reported that the data cleanup stems from claims that millions of long-dead Americans and noncitizens may have been receiving benefit checks. It stated that Elon Musk and Donald Trump asserted in February 2025 that millions of people in government databases were improperly receiving Social Security checks, claims that were later clarified by Trump's acting commissioner. Breitbart stated the cleanup is part of the Trump administration’s drive to curb benefits fraud."},{"type":"heading","text":"What the coverage left out"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Neither the left-rated report nor the right-rated digest mentioned the specific date in June 2025 when DOGE team members copied a Social Security database to a third-party server. The right-rated digest did not mention the SSA's statement that it does not know what information was shared or if it still exists on the server. 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