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Ciara O'Rourke
By Ciara O'Rourke December 9, 2022

Video of child telling Jill Biden to “shut up” was altered

If Your Time is short

  • This video was altered. No such outburst happened at this event. 
 

On Feb. 2, First Lady Jill Biden gave a speech at a White House event that relaunched the "cancer moonshot" President Joe Biden led when he was vice president. 

"Certain words have the power to make time stop," Jill Biden said in a video circulating on social media. Then, a child can be heard yelling "shut the f— up."

A post sharing the video was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.)

This video is altered. 

In the original footage, no one yells at Biden. She goes on to name the words that have the power to make time stop: "Malignant. Aggressive. Terminal. Cancer."

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