FACT CHECK: Face­book Video Show­ing Kamala Har­ris With Eye­bags Is Edit­ed

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FACT CHECK: Facebook Video Showing Kamala Harris With Eyebags Is Edited

A video shared on Face­book pur­ports to show 2024 Demo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­nee Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris with dark bags under her eyes while address­ing sup­port­ers after the elec­tion.

Ver­dict: False

The claim is false, as the video has been dig­i­tal­ly altered. In the orig­i­nal video, which has been shared on X and YouTube, Har­ris does not have dark bags under her eyes.

Fact Check:

A Nov. 2024 poll released by Puck News/Echelon Insights shows that 41% of vot­ers would vote for Har­ris if she led the Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial tick­et in the 2028 elec­tion, accord­ing to The Hill. The same poll indi­cates that 8% of vot­ers would vote for Cal­i­for­nia Demo­c­ra­t­ic Gov. Gavin New­som if he ran in 2028, the out­let report­ed.

The Face­book video pur­ports to show Har­ris with dark bags under her eyes while address­ing sup­port­ers fol­low­ing the 2024 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion. Har­ris’ speech also appears to be slurred. “Kamala Har­ris is not [han­dling] her loss well,” the video’s cap­tion reads.

The claim is false as the video has been dig­i­tal­ly altered. In the orig­i­nal video, which was shared on X by the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty, Har­ris does not have dark bags under her eyes, and her speech is not slurred. An iter­a­tion of the same video shared on YouTube also bears no signs of dark eye bags or slurred speech.

Like­wise, a con­tent detec­tion scan con­duct­ed via “TrueMedia.org” indi­cates the Face­book video shows “some evi­dence of manip­u­la­tion.” In addi­tion, Har­ris has not pub­licly com­ment­ed on the manip­u­lat­ed video via her offi­cial 2024 cam­paign web­site or her ver­i­fied social media accounts. The White House has not pub­licly com­ment­ed on the video, either. (RELATED: No, The Har­ris Cam­paign Did Not Post A Tweet Accus­ing A Con­ser­v­a­tive Media Out­let Of Racism)

Fur­ther­more, Check Your Fact found no cred­i­ble news reports to sup­port the claim. Actu­al­ly, the oppo­site is true. On Dec. 4, USA Today debunked the video, report­ing that it had been dig­i­tal­ly altered.

Check Your Fact has con­tact­ed a Har­ris spokesper­son for com­ment.