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In October 2020, a piece of text started to circulate on social media claiming that vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris called American churches propaganda centers: This text, which was copied and pasted across a number of social media accounts, reads: These are not genuine quotes from Harris. The claims made in this text were made up out of whole cloth. The alleged quotes contained in this Facebook post are controversial, to say the least. And this text claims that they were uttered by a woman running for vice president, a position that is highly scrutinized in the media. If these quotes were real, we would undoubtedly be able to find a multitude of news article's about Harris' alleged remarks. Yet, our search for videos, articles, press releases and tweets yielded no results. The credibility of this Facebook post is also called into question since it misquotes Harris' running mate Joe Biden as saying those who hold to traditional views and intolerant Christian beliefs are dregs of society. This is not what Biden said. We discussed this quote at length in a separate article. In short, Biden was talking about racists groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, who have voiced their support for President Donald Trump, and referred to those virulent people as the dregs of society.
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