Quick Take
A number of social media users have shared an article titled that the United States President Joe Biden will put all Americans that have not received the COVID-19 vaccine by 2022 into quarantine camps. We checked and found that the claim is False. It was an article from a satire website shared out of context.
The Claim
Users shared articles from multiple websites that claimed that US President Joe Biden is planning to put all unvaccinated people in Quarantine camps by 2022. Such posts can be seen here, here, and here.
A snapshot of one such post is given below.
Fact Check
Did the US President say that he will put all unvaccinated people in quarantine camps?
NO. This is a satire article shared out of context.
The original article was written and published on a site called The Stonk Market. It is a satire website (a website that publishes imaginary news with the intent of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity).
The site mentions the following as its Mission statement – To provide daily humour and make stonks go up.
The original article can be seen here.
Though the original article was meant as satire, most social media users misunderstood it and spread it as fake news.
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