⁍ Users on social media are sharing a photograph alleging it shows Joe Biden acting inappropriately with an 8-year-old boy.

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⁍ This claim is inaccurate: the cropped photo in the claim shows Biden with his grandson.

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⁍ The text on the photo reads: ‘Nothing shows you care more than a 77 year old man kissing an 8 year old boy on the lips’
While the photo in this claim is authentic, the insinuation on social media that Biden is acting inappropriately with a child he doesn’t know is not.

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– “Nothing shows you care more than a 77-year-old man kissing an 8-year-old boy on the lips.” So reads a now-debunked Facebook post that was shared more than 8,000 times. The post was accompanied by a cropped photo of Joe Biden kissing his grandson, Robert Hunter Biden II, after he was sworn in for a second term as vice president in 2013, the Washington Post reports. According to the AP, Robert is one of two children Joe Biden had with his wife, Hallie, and was at least six years old at the time. The photo was taken after Joe Biden’s son, Beau, was killed. Reuters fact-checked the photo and found it to be authentic. “While the photo in this claim is authentic, the insinuation on social media that Biden is acting inappropriately with a child he doesn’t know is not,” the site states.