“A Black man invented the light bulb, not a white guy named Edison.”
What PolitiFact found
Biden greatly exaggerates to minimize Thomas Edison and credit only Lewis Latimer. Latimer played a lesser role than Edison, and later in the process.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (Democratic presidential nominee) made this claim around 3 September 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 4 September 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
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