A viral tweet from Richard Grenell, former acting director of national intelligence, claimed to show Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden not wearing a mask while on a plane:
The claim was further elevated by conservative commentator Mark Levin:
Contrary to what Grenell suggested in his tweet, the picture is almost a year old. While it was used in a Vogue article published on October 30, 2020, the article notes that it shows Biden with his traveling national press secretary Remi Yamamoto on a flight to South Carolina in November 2019.
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