Social media users shared a range of false claims this week about Biden selling 'state secrets,' the legitimacy of climate change and more. Here are the facts.
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts:Social media posts misconstrue Biden's joke about selling 'state secrets'CLAIM: A video shows President Joe Biden openly admitting to selling state secrets.
Spokespersons for the White House declined to comment, but an AP reporter who attended Friday's roundtable confirmed Biden made the joke at the beginning of the event as the president and his guests were already seated at the table and reporters were beginning to file into the room. The false claims followed an announcement by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that the U.S. has seen five cases of malaria spread by mosquitoes in the last two months — the first time there's been local spread in 20 years. There were four cases detected in Florida and one in Texas.
Aedes aegypti cannot and do not transmit malaria, concurred Nora Besansky, a biology professor at the University of Notre Dame who specializes in mosquitoes. A small subset of Anopheles mosquitoes are the only ones that do transmit human malaria, Besansky said in an email. She added that Oxitec only releases male Aedes mosquitoes — but it's female mosquitoes that bite people for blood and"thus only the female mosquitoes transmit malaria parasites.
Some social media users continue to doubt the phenomenon and are sharing as evidence a meme claiming that there hasn't been a decline in the number glaciers since Gore was born 75 years ago. The image, shared on Instagram, shows a photo of a young Gore with text under the image that reads:"The day Al Gore was born there were 130,000 glaciers on Earth. Today, only 130,000 remain."
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Biden knocked for declaring Supreme Court is 'not a normal court:' 'Not a normal presidency'President Biden was blasted on Thursday for proclaiming that the U.S. Supreme Court is “not a normal court' following its ruling on affirmative action.
Read more »
Biden pops in: ‘Big Guy’ made cameos in Hunter Biden’s business schemesOne of the Biden family's closest business associates told the FBI that President Biden met with Chinese energy company officials on behalf of his son Hunter on several occasions.
Read more »
Republicans sell ‘Biden & Son’ T-shirts tying Bidenomics to Hunter Biden’s business deals with ChinaThe NRCC unleashed its latest attack against POTUS and his son Hunter in the form of new merch. The new T-shirt reads “Biden & Son” on the front. The backside reads “Selling Out America since 1973,” the year Biden was sworn into the Senate.
Read more »
Hunter Biden's misdeeds continue to haunt President BidenHunter Biden's plea deal on tax and gun charges has not been the end of the story for the president's troubled son.
Read more »
Nikki Haley says Republicans 'absolutely should' impeach Biden over Hunter Biden probe allegationsNikki Haley says Congressional Republicans 'absolutely should' impeach President Biden over whistleblower allegations that there was improper meddling in the investigation of his son, Hunter Biden.
Read more »
Biden says as Catholic he’s ‘not big on abortion’ but thinks Roe ‘got it right’President Biden on Tuesday said he is not big on abortion, as a practicing Catholic, but defended the reproductive rights that were previously granted under Roe v. Wade. “I’m a practicing Catholic. I’m not big on abortion, but guess what? Roe vs. Wade got it right,” Biden said at a fundraiser with about 100 donors…
Read more »