{"id":2006,"date":"2024-06-27T05:31:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T05:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afghanistan.factcrescendo.com\/english\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2024-07-01T05:34:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T05:34:49","slug":"image-of-joe-biden-with-jeffrey-epstein-is-edited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afghanistan.factcrescendo.com\/english\/image-of-joe-biden-with-jeffrey-epstein-is-edited\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of Joe Biden with Jeffrey Epstein is edited"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The viral image is not real; it was made by combining two photographs. One of Jeffrey Epstein and Pepe Fanjul, and another of Joe Biden and Ezra Friedlander.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An image purportedly showing the late American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> posing with U.S. President Joe Biden is going viral on social media. Users who share the image, questioning why the full list of Epstein’s clients has not been made public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hundreds of pages of court filings related to a lawsuit against Ghislane Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator in a scheme to exploit and sexually abuse minors, were released recently. Those records contain the names of dozens of celebrities, politicians, and other public figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A reverse image search of the image on Google led us to the American magazine Vanity Fair<\/a> published the original photo of Epstein in a 2019 report, crediting Getty Images and the Patrick McMullan Company. The article features the same image of Epstein and Fanjul, noting it was taken during a film release in 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An art market website named Artnet<\/a> also included the same image in a 2020 article titled “Jeffrey Epstein and billionaire collector Pepe Fanjul.\u201d News sites like The New York Post<\/a> and Today<\/a> have used a cropped version of this image that only shows Epstein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next, we ran a search for Biden’s image, and found that it was sourced from The Friedlander Group’s website<\/a>, a boutique political firm based in New York. The image had been featured in an album which carried photos of its CEO, Ezra Friedlander with several world leaders, including then-US senator Joe Biden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, we can understand that the viral image combines the two separate images shown above. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fact Crescendo found that the viral image to be Altered<\/strong>. It was made by combining two photographs. One of Jeffrey Epstein and Pepe Fanjul, and another of Joe Biden and Ezra Friedlander.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t