In July 2023, a video from a bookstore, where the US president allegedly chooses benefits with the exercises for the brain, was encouraged in the Russian -language segment of the Internet. We decided to check if this video corresponds to reality.
The video on which Joe Biden considers books on the counter with a sign “Exercises for the brain at dementia”, some Russian media published, for example “Tsargrad","The arguments of the week","Ura.ru" And Eurasia Daily. The video spread in Telegram: it was placed, for example, in channels "Uncle Glory"(180,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), Voblya (141 000), "Ostashko! Important"(101 000) and"Russian format"(64 000). It was published by users of other social networks: Twitter, "VKontakte" Tiktok.
The distributed video is not of very good quality, however, if you look closely, you can distinguish the covers of some books on the counter. In particular, one of them shows the name of the children's writer Roalda Dahl, the author of the novels "Charlie and the chocolate factory" and "Big and kind giant." Biden himself has a book from a popular children's Series About the piglet Olivia. In addition to the plate, nothing indicates that the video is a department with manuals for people with dementia. In addition, usually such books are not placed on the counter in the center of the hall, because most of the visitors to the bookstore, unless it specializes in medical literature, they are not interesting.
In the video in the lower right corner, the logo of the CBS television channel is noticeable, that is, most likely, it was not an amateur video, but a news story. Indeed, if you enter the keywords of “Biden” and “Books” in English, as well as the name of the TV channel, on the first page of the search results appears videolaid out on the verified YouTube channel CBS News. This is a half-minute story about how “Vice President Joe Biden entered the new store [hypermarket chain] Costco in the northeast of Washington, the district of Colombia to make festive purchases, and purchased children's books, electronics and other goods.” The plot was published on November 29, 2012, when Biden was still only vice president in the administration of Barack Obama. Approximately on 35th second You can see the same shots that have scattered through social networks, but no sign about dementia is visible on them.
In more detailed plot About visiting Biden Costco hypermarket, which filmed the C-SPAN channel, the policy is asked why he buys these books (7:43). He replies that print publications are designed for a charity program Book Buddies, open to his wife and aimed at helping poor families who cannot buy books to children on their own. In this video, unlike the CBS plot, there are more general plans of the book department, but even here there is no sign about dementia. Obviously, it was added later in the video editor.
Despite the fact that most of the posts with this video represent him as new, this is not so - for example, the correspondent of Komsomolskaya Pravda Alexander Kotz Published Its on his twitter back in 2021. The narrative about the inadequacy of the 80-year-old Joe Biden is very popular and often reinforced by fake photos and videos in both the US and in other countries. For example, recently “verified” already denied the news that the American president He sniffed the child at a public event and declaredthat he was opened several times to the cranial box to make sure that the brain is available. Therefore, it is not surprising that the same messages indicating in favor of this statement periodically pop up with a difference of several years.
Unfortunately, it was not possible to find out who and for what purpose has edited the video by drawing a sign about exercises during dementia: it walks in this form on the Internet for a long time, and the source could be deleted within the framework of the efforts of social networks to combat the spread of inaccurate information.
Photo on the cover: Twitter Alexander Kotz
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