Old faked picture of Obama and Bin Laden surfaces again

27 October 2020

An image seemingly showing former Barack Obama with Osama Bin Laden is fake. 

As we have written before, the original image shows the former US president with Hawaii-based attorney Andre Wooten.

We’ve written more about how to spot misleading images here.

This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook content—here. For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as altered because the image is fake.

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