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Obama Birth Certificate Conspiracy Resurfaces in Viral Video | WATCH

A viral video resurfaces the false claim about Barack Obama's birth certificate being fake. The footage is from 2016. Fact-checking reveals the claim is untrue, as Obama's birth certificate has been verified as authentic.

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Obama Birth Certificate Conspiracy Resurfaces in Viral Video | WATCH

A video with former U.S. President Barack Obama in it has gone viral on the internet, alleging that his birth certificate is forged. The video features ex-Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who gave a press conference in 2016, claiming Obama’s “fake, fake birth certificate.” On February 19, 2025, an account named Jack Straw (@JackStr42679640X) uploaded the video on X with the caption, “Barack (O’Banana) Obama. Wow, the fact they are reporting this is unreal. Obama’s fraudulent birth certificate is being exposed to the world.”

American Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene contributed to the fueling of the controversy by retweeting the post with the comment, “Oohhh this is great!!” The video, which bears the Fox 10 News Channel logo”, instantly made waves and gained over 7 million views as of February 20, 2025. The statement caught most people off guard, generating wide reactions on social media.

Fact-Check

Is the statement true? No, it is not. The video clip is from a 2016 Joe Arpaio press conference and not from 2025 as the post had indicated. The incident was covered by local media back then, and X explained what happened via its “Reader’s added context” section: “Video of the press conference conducted by the ex-sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, is from 2016, not 2025, as suggested by social media posts. The press conference was recorded by local media on 15 December 2016.” The original video was posted to the Fox 10 Phoenix YouTube channel on the said date. Arpaio, the sheriff from 1993 until he lost his 2016 election, has held no elected office since.

The Facts

Rumors of Obama’s birth certificate have been around since his initial presidential campaign in 2008. Although there have been ongoing baseless claims that Obama was born in Kenya, he is an American citizen and was born in Hawaii. In June 2008, following Obama’s campaign’s publication of a copy of his “Certification of Birth” from the state of Hawaii, FactCheck.org journalists physically inspected the document and verified that it was real. Subsequently, in 2009, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaii Department of Health, issued a statement confirming that both she and the registrar of vital statistics had personally seen Obama’s original birth certificate stored in the department’s records, as recorded by PolitiFact.

Janice Okubo, public information officer of the Hawaii Department of Health, told PolitiFact that birth certificates themselves alter over time. Therefore, Obama’s original document in 1961 would be different from modern-day certificates.

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