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| Biden wore a mask during VIRTUAL climate summit to ‘send a message’ to the world, White House says | Biden wore a mask during VIRTUAL climate summit to ‘send a message’ to the world, White House says |
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| Joe Biden wore a mask during a virtual climate change summit with other world leaders to “send a message” to the world, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has said. | Joe Biden wore a mask during a virtual climate change summit with other world leaders to “send a message” to the world, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has said. |
| A viral image – a screenshot taken from a Ruptly feed – appeared to show Biden was the only world leader in the meeting on Thursday wearing a mask. Psaki defended the move in her Monday press briefing, offering an odd explanation. | |
| Asked by a reporter why Biden was “the only world leader at the climate summit Zoom who was wearing a mask,” Psaki responded: “Because he is sending a message to the world that he is putting in place precautions, and continuing to do that as the leader of the United States.” | Asked by a reporter why Biden was “the only world leader at the climate summit Zoom who was wearing a mask,” Psaki responded: “Because he is sending a message to the world that he is putting in place precautions, and continuing to do that as the leader of the United States.” |
| Psaki also justified Biden’s decision by claiming there were others in the room with him during the virtual meeting. | Psaki also justified Biden’s decision by claiming there were others in the room with him during the virtual meeting. |
| The still image, made as Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke, showed only Biden wearing a mask. Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, Chinese President Xi Jinping, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and other world leaders could also be seen maskless. | |
| Psaki did not clarify what “message” the leaders who did not wear masks were sending to the world. | Psaki did not clarify what “message” the leaders who did not wear masks were sending to the world. |
| After it gained traction online, several media organizations jumped to ‘fact check’ the image, dramatically revealing that Biden was not, in fact, the only participant to wear a mask, and stating the obvious fact that the image was merely one screenshot grabbed over the course of a two-day summit. | After it gained traction online, several media organizations jumped to ‘fact check’ the image, dramatically revealing that Biden was not, in fact, the only participant to wear a mask, and stating the obvious fact that the image was merely one screenshot grabbed over the course of a two-day summit. |
| Fact-check articles from USA Today, Snopes, and PolitiFact earnestly pointed out that only a fraction – 17 out of 40 – of the leaders attending the virtual summit could be seen in the image. They noted that other participants off-camera at that moment were also wearing masks, including UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, and Argentinian President Alberto Fernandez. | Fact-check articles from USA Today, Snopes, and PolitiFact earnestly pointed out that only a fraction – 17 out of 40 – of the leaders attending the virtual summit could be seen in the image. They noted that other participants off-camera at that moment were also wearing masks, including UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, and Argentinian President Alberto Fernandez. |
| Most leaders, however, chose to forgo the mask for the Zoom get-together. | Most leaders, however, chose to forgo the mask for the Zoom get-together. |
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