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In September 2018, an image purportedly showing former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama posing with a t-shirt bearing the putative presidential campaign slogan Michelle Obama 2020 went viral on Facebook: This is not a genuine photograph of the Obamas. The original image featured President Obama holding a t-shirt featuring the words Hate Won't Win, which was posted to his official Presidential Twitter account on 26 June 2015 along with a message about a mass shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina: This wasn't the first time that same photograph served as the basis for a digital hoax. In researching the fake Michelle Obama 2020 picture, we came across a number of doctored images showing President Obama holding shirts promoting President Trump, ISIS, transgender rights, and equality marches: Some pundits have mentioned Michelle Obama as a potential presidential candidate in 2020, but so far the former first lady has not expressed interest in the notion. In fact, Michelle Obama explicitly said that she didn't want to run for president while speaking at the 39th Annual Simmons Leadership Conference in Boston in April 2018:
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