“Photo shows "Dr. Fauci, Melinda Gates and Barack Obama at the Wuhan Lab in 2015…!!!!”
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Claim dated 15 Jul 2020.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
What FactCheck.org found
The photo was taken at the National Institutes of Health campus in Maryland—and Melinda Gates is not in the picture.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 15 July 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 July 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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