After President Joe Biden welcomed the Atlanta Braves to the White House on Sept. 26 to honor their 2021 World Series win, he was given a Braves jersey with his name on it, a tradition at these types of sports celebrations.
After posing for a team photo while holding up the jersey, Biden invited some of the children in attendance to pose for photos with him and the team.
It didn’t take long for some on social media to use the moment to revive false claims that the president is a pedophile.
"Joe Biden was welcoming the World Series champions Atlanta Braves to the White House when he did something extremely strange. He demanded that all the little kids come up on stage to sit on his lap," conservative commentator Benny Johnson said in a Facebook reel shared Sept. 27.
The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)
A full video (beginning at the 14:20 mark) of the event available on C-SPAN tells a much different story than the one described in Johnson's deceptively edited video, which shows only portions of a larger event and dramatically zooms in on children’s faces
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