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      Joe Biden Did Not Sign Blank Executive Orders On His First Day

      Although the text on the documents is barely visible in a recording of the event, enhanced stills shows that the pages were not blank.

      By - AFP |
      Published -  2 Feb 2021 5:06 PM IST
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      Joe Biden Did Not Sign Blank Executive Orders On His First Day

      Social media posts claim videos and images of Joe Biden signing executive orders on the first day of his presidency show him endorsing blank pages. This is false; although the text on the documents is barely visible in a recording of the event, enhanced stills shows that the pages were not blank.

      "Bidens in office signing blank document's!" (sic) reads the title of a video posted on YouTube.


      Screenshot taken on January 22, 2021 of a YouTube video

      "I told you it looked like he was signing BLANK FAKE EO!!!!" a January 20 Facebook post claims, referring to executive orders.

      Also Read: No, National Guards Did Not Avoid Joe Biden On Inauguration Day

      And a January 22 Instagram post says: "the document he is signing is blank!"

      The claim is also circulating in Dutch and German.

      Following his inauguration, Biden signed a flurry of executive and other orders at the White House, including to keep the United States in the World Health Organization, end the ban on entries from mostly Muslim-majority countries, bolster environmental protections and strengthen measures to combat Covid-19.

      The video and images shown in the posts appear to be completely blank because the video is low-quality and overexposed.

      AFP video footage shows the same event in higher quality. To compensate for slight overexposure of the papers in the video, AFP Fact Check increased the contrast of screenshots of the video by using Photoshop. This shows text on the pages in the side-by-side images below.

      Cropped screenshot of an AFP video (L) and the cropped screenshot with increased contrast (R), in which text is visible on the document

      An AFP photographer also covered the event and produced an image (below, left) which shows text when enhanced (below, right):

      US President Joe Biden signs a series of orders in Washington, DC after being sworn in at the US Capitol on January 20, 2021. The right image was enhanced to show the text on the papers (AFP / Jim Watson)

      The White House has published these presidential actions on their website. They can be found with the search query "executive order."

      Also Read: The US Senate Has Not Claimed That Barack Obama Funded Al-Qaeda

      (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by BOOM staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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      Claim :   Joe Biden signed blank executive orders on his first day of presidency.
      Claimed By :  Posts on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram
      Fact Check :  False
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