The video shows Joe Biden standing next to a boy in a blue polo shirt. In the background, ominous music plays.
Then, the boy appears to hand the president a vial.
"Joe Biden accepts a vial of blood, handed to him by a boy," the caption says. "Looks like the rumors of him sucking the blood of kids are 100% true!"
The video, published Nov. 21 on Facebook by the page Liberal Loony Bin, accumulated more than 1,100 views within a month. More recent versions of the clip have racked up thousands of additional views on Instagram.
"Is this edited??" one user wrote in a Dec. 16 post.
Turns out, it is.
As other independent fact-checking organizations have reported, the video is doctored. The original clip does not show the boy passing Biden a vial of blood. The false claim plays into the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory.
USA TODAY reached out to social media users who shared the claim for comment.
The video in the social media posts stems from a July 21 broadcast from a Fox-affiliated TV station in Cincinnati, according to Check Your Fact.
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