Social media influencers claim in videos viewed millions of times that the US economy is in a "silent depression," with income levels below those of the 1930s. This is false; the arguments are based on tax data from top earners in the Great Depression, not the wider population -- and other figures show a massive expansion of economic activity in the subsequent decades.

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