The Associated Press checks out 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. Here are the facts:
CLAIM: Joe Biden “caught red-handed” using a teleprompter during an interview on Telemundo.
THE FACTS: Biden was answering questions shown on a monitor, not responding using a teleprompter, during a recent interview on Telemundo, a Spanish-language television network.
@TelemundoNews confirmed on Twitter that Biden did not use the teleprompter: “Recent social media posts claiming @JoeBiden used a teleprompter during an interview with Noticias Telemundo and anchor @jdbalart are absolutely FALSE.”
On Monday, a Twitter user shared a photo of the interview with the caption: “Biden just did an interview with Telemundo where he was asked questions, turned to the left and read the answers off a teleprompter.”
Eric Trump, President Donald Trump’s son, tweeted the 26-second clip on Wednesday. “Unreal,” he wrote. Text over the video reads: “Biden caught red-handed using a teleprompter.”
The post had more than 16,000 retweets. The false claim was also spreading on Facebook and Instagram.
During the interview, several Telemundo viewers asked Biden questions through a monitor. A review of the interview shows that Biden was answering a question about the Obama administration’s record on mass deportation. An image of a woman appears on the screen.
“How can you guarantee this will not continue happening in our communities,” she asks.
While answering the question, Biden faces the monitor. “It took much too long to get it right,” Biden remarks. “There are going to be no deportations in the first 100 days of my campaign.”
Telemundo anchor Jose Diaz-Balart then steps in to confirm the statement, “Let me get that right. You are going to freeze deportations?”
“Freeze deportations for the first 100 days,” Biden clarifies. “And the only people who will be deported are people who committed a felony while here, that’s number one.”
“OK I lost that line,” Biden says, looking toward the monitor.
“That’s good. We could talk, you and I on that,” Diaz-Balart responds. The full interview was published to YouTube on Sept. 15.
As CNN reports in its own Fact Check, this is part of the Trump campaign’s strategy to convince voters that Biden is mentally impaired and not up to the presidency.
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