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Video of Joe Biden outside the White House is real, according to fact-checkers

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Fact-checking site Lead Stories and journalists working for the BBC and Mashable said that President Biden was speaking from the south lawn outside the White House when he spoke to reporters on Tuesday. Similar claims about former president Donald Trump were debunked in October.

Fact-checking site Lead Stories and journalists working for the BBC and Mashable said that President Biden was speaking from the south lawn outside the White House when he spoke to reporters on Tuesday. Similar claims about former president Donald Trump were debunked in October.

  1. Mar 17

    Fact Check: Video of Joe Biden Talking To Press on W.H. Lawn Does NOT Reveal A 'Green Screen Fail'

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  2. Mar 17

    Since Biden was inaugurated, QAnon supporters have pushed false claims of supposed proof that Biden hasn't really been president & his activities as president haven't been real. This may be the first time those claims have in some manner really spread elsewhere in the far-right.

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  3. Mar 17

    A false conspiracy theory has spread widely in the far-right internet (not just within the QAnon community) that some incident involving a microphone and Biden talking to reporters shows he and the incident were somehow faked.

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  4. Mar 17

    That large, grey microphone is actually further to the right of Biden's hands, not in front of them. There are multiple videos of the exchange taken from other angles as well as images. Obviously, there's no green screen or CGI at play. And, yes, Biden is alive and real...

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  5. Mar 17

    And finally, for those who are still wondering what happens to those two mics in the original video, we'd all be better off if we familiarised ourselves more with the concept of optical illusions as well as how and why they happen.

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  6. Mar 17

    I was the one holding the lighter-colored fuzzy microphone and thus literally in front of on the South Lawn. It's all real. Who actually believes this 'faked moon landing' type nonsense and more importantly who is spreading it?

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    A video of President Biden answering a few questions from reporters has set into motion an explosion of old or existing conspiracy theories ranging from "green screen video" to "CGI" to "Biden isn't real" to "Biden is dead" to "Biden body double".
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  7. Mar 17

    Explaining why a dead cat appears behind Joe Biden. The video also explains why the other microphone appears both in from of and behind his hand. It's because it was. The boom operator bumped his hand, then moved back a bit.

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  8. 8 Oct 2020

    I can't believe I'm doing this again... But NO Trump isn't shot against a green screen in the White House lawn video. The background ISN'T looping - here is a gif of the first frame and last frame - look at the shadow of the columns in the background.

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  9. 8 Oct 2020

    The latest video from President Trump was NOT filmed in front of a green screen. It was, in fact, shot in front of the White House

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  10. Mar 17

    No, Joe Biden did not use a green screen to fake an appearance outside the White House yesterday

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  11. Mar 17

    Another jump to conspiracy theory, media forensics and fears: Conspiracy theorists think Joe Biden used a green screen to fake a recent appearance. (He did not.). . I wrote about the harms of this recently for

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