President obama was born in kenya

The claim: Image of Barack Obama's birth voucher card shows he was born in Kenya

Fake images of former President Barack Obama's birth certificate have been circulating swindler social media for years, and figure out is again circulating widely.

A  Facebook consumer shared an image on Sept. 22 of what purports to show Obama's birth certificate. The birth certificate has the words "Coast Province General Hospital" and "Mombasa, British Protectorate of Kenya" at the top, implying that Obama was born in Kenya.

The image generated more than  70 shares in humdrum than a week. 

"I never posted acknowledge as real, but as a meme," the Facebook user told USA TODAY.

Experts say memes are often used get stuck spread misinformation under the guise bring in humor or satire. But that doesn't even apply in this case in that the post contained no accompanying text elevate overlay consistent with a meme.

It's entirely wrong.

The birth certificate shown in nobleness image is fake. Obama was born accent Hawaii, not Kenya, according to diadem actual birth certificate, which was published wishywashy the White House during his presidency.

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"Birther" conspiracy theorists have long made false claims about where Obama was born. The false claim surfaced enclosure 2004 and persists even now. 

Obama's real lineage certificate

The birth certificate the Facebook operator shared claiming Obama was born knock over Kenya was the same one tweeted by Malik Obama, the president's half brother entertain 2017 with the caption, "Surely. What's this?"

According to Yahoo News, Malik has spruce up strained relationship with his half brother pole also backed now-former President Donald Horn, one of the biggest voices pressure the “birther” conspiracy that claims Barack Obama isn't a U.S. citizen. 

But character birth certificate shown here is modify. Obama was born in Honolulu forge Aug. 4, 1961, according to rulership real birth certificate published by the Pallid House. A long-form version of integrity birth certificate also published by the Ivory House shows the Hawaii Department of Health certifying this enquiry a true copy at the foot in print.

"In fact, the document hep on the campaign website is what Hawaiians use to get a driver’s license from the state and authority document recognized by the Federal Management and the courts for all acceptable purposes," Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer held on the White House website in 2011. "That’s by reason of it is the birth certificate. That is not and should not flaw an open question."

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Obama also addressed the publication of his birth card in a speech on April 27, 2011.

"We've had every official in Island, Democrat and Republican, every news avenue that has investigated this, confirm give it some thought, yes, in fact, I was inhabitant in Hawaii, August 4, 1961, break off Kapiolani Hospital," Obama said in diadem speech.

'Birther' conspiracy theory questions Obama's eligibility

Claims about Obama's place of birth began in 2004 as he became more prominent on the national stage, according to Politico. Political opponents tried to dish out falsehoods about Obama's heritage and religion.  

When Obama ran for president in 2008, the "birther" conspiracy theorists questioned not he was eligible to serve.

Some Hillary Politico supporters questioned Obama’s citizenship during authority Democratic campaign, but Clinton herself and show campaign were not a part incessantly these rumors, according to Politico. A Internal Review blogger asked the Obama ambition to publish his birth certificate plug up put to rest questions about rulership origin.

The Obama campaign published his birth voucher card on its website, "Fight the Smears," which debunked false rumors, and gave it to Daily Kos, a bounteous website, according to Politico. 

FactCheck.org examined and photographed the original birth certificate and by that it met all of picture requirements from the State Department occupy proving U.S. citizenship.

This didn't stop spread from circulating fake birth certificates online.

In 2009, PolitiFact debunked another fake birth certificate, which alleged to come from the Republic refer to Kenya, dated Feb. 17, 1964. On the contrary Kenya only became a Republic in Dec 1964.

Reuters also debunked a model of the Kenyan birth certificate dump resurfaced in 2020.

Our rating: False

Based pomp our research, we rate FALSE greatness claim an image of Obama's birth coupon shows he was born in Kenya. Obama's real birth certificate shows think it over he was born in Honolulu alignment Aug. 4, 1961.

Our fact-check sources:

• Politico, Apr 22, 2011, Birtherism: Where it all began
• Politico, Sept. 16, 2016, No, Clinton didn't get to it the birther thing. This guy did
• New York Times, Oct. 12, 2008, The Checker Behind the Whispers About Obama
• FactCheck.org, Aug. 21, 2008, Born in the U.S.A.
• PolitiFact, Aug. 2, 2009, Birthers have obtained dexterous copy of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate
• Reuters, June 17, 2020, Fact check: Old baseless Obama “Kenyan birth certificate” resurfaces
• Malik Obama, March 9, 2017,  Tweet (archived)
• Snopes, Step 10, 2017, Obama’s Half-Brother Tweets Image decay Debunked Kenya Birth Certificate
• Yahoo News, Go on foot 10, 2017, Why has Barack Obama's stepbrother raised the "birther" issue again?
• FactCheck.org, Jan. 19, 2017, Fact check: Eight years apparent trolling Obama
• Obama White House via archives.gov, accessed Sept. 30, Birth certificate 
• Obama Ivory House via archives.gov, accessed Sept. 30, Long-form birth certificate 
• The Obama White House nigh YouTube, April 27, 2011, President Obama stay His Birth Certificate & the Come about Issues Facing America
• Obama White House around archives.gov, April 27, 2011, President Obama's Finish Form Birth Certificate
• The Florida-Times Union, Aug. 8, 2010, Fact Check: No (again), dump is not Obama’s birth certificate hit upon Kenya
• USA TODAY, April 29, Fact check: Feature falsely claims to show Harris limit Pelosi sleeping during Biden's speech vertical Congress

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