A photo of Kamala Harris in a McDonald’s uniform is fake
Vice President Kamala Harris has told voters she worked at McDonald’s as a nod to her middle-class upbringing. Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly said without evidence that she is lying about her experience at the restaurant. Now some social media users have shared supposed evidence of Harris working at the fast food chain without realizing it was fabricated. An image posted Oct. 26 to Threads shows a young Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, wearing a McDonald’s uniform. The post is captioned, “Look what I found, Kamala in a McDonalds uniform.” (Screenshot/Threads) This 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, Instagram and Threads.) But the photo has been digitally modified. The original photo shows a person in the same uniform standing in front of the same furniture; it was posted on a website to memorialize a woman named Suzanne Bernier, who died from breast cancer in 2007 at a hospital in Ontario, Canada. Some posts said Democrats had edited the image to prove Harris worked at McDonald’s. However, X user @TheInfiniteDude, who has posted content supporting Trump, took credit for the image. The user first shared the image Oct. 24 with the caption, “This is fake.” The user later retweeted it and said, “I made it” and that “in the tweet I’m fact-checking it myself as fake.” The user added, “Who removed the context and shared it among democrats?” We rate the claim that an old photo shows Harris in a McDonald’s uniform False. This fact check was originally published by PolitiFact, which is part of the Poynter Institute. See the sources for this fact check here.
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