Searches for the phrase "White House employee Andrew Bates did use Nazi symbolism" also returned no results. A search for the purported headline on the Reuters website turned up no matching results.
In addition, the image in the Facebook post is not a screenshot of an actual Reuters Fact Check article. "The eagle is not, and was never intended to be the Reichsadler - it was just intended to be a representation of America’s national bird, the bald eagle, and any reasonable person would interpret it as such," he told The Daily Dot.Ī Reichsadler is an imperial eagle motif used by Nazi Germany. When making the Biden meme, Stone substituted an eagle for the bat.
Tobin Stone, the artist who first shared the Biden meme, confirmed to The Daily Dot that the meme was based on the Batman movie poster, which features a bat in the background. eb1AxcMFyK- Andrew Bates August 8, 2022Īfter the meme was shared, some Twitter users questioned whether the emblem in the background was a Nazi symbol. 7 was reminiscent of a movie poster for the 2012 Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises": The flagged post refers to a Dark Brandon meme.īiden’s deputy press secretary, Andrew Bates, has mentioned and shared Dark Brandon memes in recent days.ĭark Brandon is crushing it /w0L8xCzIW8- Andrew Bates August 7, 2022 These memes are a response to Dark MAGA, a far-right aesthetic promoting an authoritarian version of former President Donald Trump in dystopian images. The Biden administration has recently embraced a "Let’s go, Brandon!" parody meme called "Dark Brandon," which features edited images of Biden grinning with red laser eyes. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) The posts were flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. In other versions of the image, also shared on Facebook and Twitter, the headline continued: "But he did so in a way that exhibits how extreme the opponents of Biden have become." "Fact check - White House employee Andrew Bates did use Nazi Symbolism in a recent tweet". 8 Facebook post, which featured a screenshot of what appeared to be a Reuters headline claiming that a Biden administration official had included a Nazi symbol in a tweet. "Let’s go, Brandon!" became an anti-Biden mantra used by social media users and politicians alike.īrandon re-entered controversy in an Aug.
The name gained political cachet in October 2021, when an NBC Sports reporter mistook a crowd’s profane chants about President Joe Biden for chants of support for NASCAR driver Brandon Brown.