Did DOGE announce they discovered a Lousiana man with 34 different names, addresses and social security numbers who was collecting $1,168,646 in social security per year? No, that's not true: No such announcement appeared on DOGE's official X account or website. The claim appeared on an unaffiliated account on X that did not disclose the source of the claim.
The claim appeared in a post on X (archived here) posted on February 24, 2025 by an account named "@DogeTracker69". It read:
➠BREAKING: #DOGE discovers a Louisiana man with 34 different names, addresses, and social security numbers. He was collecting $1,168,646 in SS per year!
This is what the post looked like:
(Image: screenshot of x.com taken by Lead Stories on February 25, 2025 at 13:18:06 UTC)
A meme making the claim was uploaded to TikTok on February 21, 2025:
@the.oligarchy1 #elonmusk #doge #america #foryou #fyp ♬ WALK by Pantera - Sadgasmok
This is what the meme looked like:
(Screenshot taken by Lead Stories on February 25, 2025 at 13:23:06 UTC)
The actual Department of Government Efficiency made no such announcement. A search on DOGE's X account for the word "Louisiana" returned no results (archived here). Likewise, a Google search for that word limited to results found on Doge's official website doge.gov also returned no relevant hits (achived here). A search of Google News for news stories mentioning "Doge" and "Lousiana" (archived here) didn't return relevant results either.
