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Falsehood Swirls About Biden, SEALs

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Viral posts on Facebook claim, falsely, that former Vice President Joe Biden “leaked the names of SEAL Team 6 family’s to Al Qaeda.” Biden publicly credited the SEALs with killing Osama Bin Laden, but did not disclose the team or team members responsible.


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As former Vice President Joe Biden mounts his 2020 campaign for president, viral social media posts are spreading a falsehood to argue that he “cannot be trusted.”

Referring to the Navy SEALs unit for the claim that “it was Biden who leaked the names of SEAL Team 6 family’s [sic] to Al Qaeda and cannot be trusted!”

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