Milei used a fake account to argue for the fall in inflation

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The Argentine Government relied on data provided by a fraudulent account on the social network Twitter (X) to support the theory of disinflation in an interview.

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“We are going to bring down the inflation rate, that’s what pushed me,” Argentine President Javier Milei said last year during an online interview in which he used as an example of the fall in prices the data from Jumbot, a supposed bot that reported the daily variations of the basic exchange rate at one of Argentina’s best-known supermarkets, Jumbo. “We went from [a price change of] +5.22 to -4.52,” Milei said, attributing the decline to the me…