A video was widely dispersed on the Internet, where the US president leans to the child and sniffs him loudly. We decided to check if it corresponds to reality.
In the English and Russian-speaking segment of the Internet, a 21-second video spread, in which the American leader leans to someone and makes a sniffing sound, as if sniffing someone or something. In Telegram, the video is most often accompanied by the following signature: “Nothing unusual. Just grandfather Joe again shows an unhealthy interest in children. This time, Biden decided to sniff a teenager. ” Such posts have placed many popular Telegram channels, for example, “Observer"(227,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), Voblya (155,000), "What happened?"(123,000) and"Tin of the day"(84 000). Popular publications About a strange incident involving Biden and in other social networks ("VKontakte" Facebook), as well as on Blog-platforms.
In the video, in addition to the close-up of Biden and a certain woman next to him, quite a few are visible, but after the 10th second people in the background fall into the frame-and there are many military men among them. Having studied press releases about events with the participation of the US President on the official website of the White House, it was “verified” that on June 9, 2023 he I visited Fort Liberti's military base, where he signed decree On improving the conditions for the spouse and spouses of military personnel. Biden's clothes (for example, the color of the costume and a strip tie), which are visible on the video distributed, coincide with what can be seen in the photo from this event - for example, in the report Associated Press or on the official website US Department of Defense. It turns out that in the runet a video in the current form dispersed after almost a month - in early July 2023.
Our colleagues from the fact of the agency Reuters I managed to find the original video - it was published in Tiktok Back on the day of the event. The hashtags #Fortliberty and #army confirm that the recording was really made at the same meeting with Biden at the military base.
The video, which lasts almost twice as long as the viral, can be seen that the hero of the video is not a teenager at all, as some Internet users write, but a baby, whom a woman shooting video holds in her arms. Moreover, in the original video there is no and that sniffing sound. Instead, you can hear Biden tells the child: “Let me tell you a secret ...”, then whispers to the child in the ear, and later adds: “Do not tell mom that I told you.” It is noteworthy that neither the mother of the child, nor the commentators under her original video see anything seditious in him, reacting more likely with emotion than indignation.
Apparently, later the video was edited: it was crushed and imposed the sound of sniffing. In the English -language segment of the Internet, a processed video appeared earlier, therefore, most likely, Russian -speaking bloggers simply distributed it, providing an incorrect signature, but did not create it themselves. So, the earliest post in the Russian -speaking Telegram, which managed to detect "verified" appeared Only on July 8 at 17:56 Moscow time, in other social networks - even later, and in the English -speaking Twitter video It spread Already on the night of July 7 to 8.
It is not the first time that “verified” has been catching Telegram channels on the distribution of fakes about Joe Bayden, who put him in an inadequate person. So, earlier the information that the American president allegedly during the speech has already dispersed in Runet asked not to jump an invisible person, put his hand on the buttocks of the President of Ukraine Zelensky or told how he was opened a skill box a couple of timesto make sure the presence of the brain. All such posts were backed up photos or videos, but at the same time none of these messages corresponded to reality, and the evidence was forged.
Thus, a video with the American president, sniffing a teenager, is not true. Firstly, the video is not a teenager at all, but a very small child. Secondly, there is no sniffing sound in the original video, it was applied in the video editor later, probably, to falsify the next proof that reinforcing the negative image of Joe Biden.
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