A video showing clips of Biden & Harris talking about the COVID-19 vaccines while Trump was still in office is labeled by Facebook with a "Missing Context" fact-check: A video shared on Facebook presented a compilation of clips of then candidates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris discussing their qualms about the COVID-19 vaccines that were being developed while Donald Trump was in office, and their downright unwillingness to take such vaccines. The video clips were accompanied by the words "Keep doubting. They actually said this, it's not editing." Facebook put a PolitiFact fact-check label on the video, rating it as "Missing Context." PolitiFact, a highly biased fact-checking outlet that has been shown to be wrong on multiple occasions, summarized the dispute over the video by saying, "Video clips appear to show Joe Biden and Kamala Harris raising doubts about COVID-19 vaccines, but they were raising concerns about the rollout by then-President Donald Trump, not the vaccines themselves." However, the video clips speak for themselves, and while the reasons for their mistrust of the vaccines do seem to be because it was being developed under the Trump administration, they were clearly concerned about the vaccines, not their rollout. However, both received a vaccine once they were in office, the same vaccines that were developed under Trump's administration and that they are shown in the clips saying that they would not get. PolitiFact seems to be grasping at straws with this, and yet the fact-check label on the video means that Facebook has ensured its reach and engagement is reduced.
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