Video Video shows Black Friday shoppers "in Biden's thriving economy."
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Video shows Black Friday shoppers “in Biden’s thriving economy.”
Black Friday a bust under Biden? No, video of lone shopper is from London
in 2017
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Footage of a lone shopper entering a store on Black Friday was filmed
in London in 2017.
The National Retail Federation said a record 200.4 million people
shopped in person or online in the U.S. over the five-day Thanksgiving
weekend.
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The days of Black Friday shoppers trampling each other at retail stores
to find discounts may be over in this era of online shopping.
But one social media post misrepresents footage of a nearly empty store
on Black Friday as an example of President Joe Biden’s effect on the
economy.
A Nov. 25 Instagram video sharing a TikTok shows a worker — with a camera
crew nearby — sliding open a store’s doors to find only one person
waiting. Text above the footage says, "Swarm of Black Friday shoppers
ready to spend their money in Biden’s thriving economy."
The post was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with
Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.)
The video doesn’t reflect the state of the U.S. economy under Biden’s leadership. It was filmed six years ago in England.
(Instagram screenshot)
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By Maria Briceño • November 20, 2023
Using a reverse-image search, we traced the footage to a Nov. 24, 2017,
report from BBC reporter Frankie McCamley. McCamley was at Currys PC
World — now known simply as Currys — on London’s Oxford Street at 7 a.m.
to catch the Black Friday crowd. Her video, which she shared in 2017 on
X, formerly Twitter, and Instagram shows a lone shopper casually entering
the store. She identified him in a second X post as Marcel, who she said
came to pick up a pre-ordered laptop.
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