A Fox News host and a former Trump administration official are spreading disinformation on Twitter, claiming that a photo shows Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden hypocritically not wearing a mask on a plane — though the photo was taken in late 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic began.
Richard Grenell, who served this year as President Donald Trump’s acting director of national intelligence after having been a longtime Fox News commentator, posted the misleading photo Sunday on Twitter.
A fact check by Reuters traced the photo to a newly published article in Vogue magazine, profiling the Biden campaign’s traveling national press secretary Remi Yamamoto — but the caption says the photo was taken “on a flight to South Carolina in November 2019.”
Fox News host Mark Levin shared Grenell’s tweet, calling Biden’s supposed action “fraud.”