Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Say He Was Taking Time Off From Campaign For The Film 'Cuties'

Fact Check

  • by: Arthur Brice
Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Say He Was Taking Time Off From Campaign For The Film 'Cuties' Fake Tweet

Did Joe Biden post on Twitter that he was taking time off from his campaign to watch the controversial French film "Cuties" on Netflix? No, that's not true: The tweet is fake and did not come from Biden's verified account.

The claim appeared as a meme in a post (archived here) published on Instagram on Sept. 10, 2020. It read:

I'm going to take a couple of days off the campaign trail. Cuties is on Netflix.

Users on social media saw this:

image (33).png

A search through Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's official and certified Instagram and Twitter accounts finds no such message from Biden. Fake postings attributed to Biden have occurred regularly this campaign season.

The film "Cuties" has been criticized for depicting the hypersexualization of young girls. Netflix has seen good and bad results from showing the movie. The network has seen record subscription cancellations, according to a research company cited by Variety.com. A majority of viewers who watched the movie said they did so over curiosity about the film's controversy, Variety said.

Want to inform others about the accuracy of this story?

https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2020/09/fact-check-biden-did-not-say-he-was-taking-time-off-from-campaign-for-the-film-cuties.html Click this link to copy it to your clipboard

See who is sharing it (it might even be your friends...) and leave the link in the comments.:

This fact check is available at IFCN's 2020 US Elections #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here, for more.

Arthur Brice

Arthur Brice is a fact checker at Lead Stories. He has been a journalist for more than 40 years, nearly 30 of them in newspapers. Brice was a national desk editor and reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for nearly 20 years. Previously, he was political editor at The Tampa Tribune and also worked for three other Florida newspapers. He spent 11 Years as an executive editor and executive producer at CNN. 

Read more about or contact Arthur Brice

Different viewpoints

Note: if reading this fact check makes you want to contact us to complain about bias, please check out our Red feed first.

About Us

International Fact-Checking Organization Meta Third-Party Fact Checker

Lead Stories is a fact checking website that is always looking for the latest false, misleading, deceptive or inaccurate stories, videos or images going viral on the internet.
Spotted something? Let us know!.

Lead Stories is a:


@leadstories

Subscribe to our newsletter

* indicates required

Please select all the ways you would like to hear from Lead Stories LLC:

You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link in the footer of our emails. For information about our privacy practices, please visit our website.

We use Mailchimp as our marketing platform. By clicking below to subscribe, you acknowledge that your information will be transferred to Mailchimp for processing. Learn more about Mailchimp's privacy practices here.

Most Read

Most Recent

Share your opinion