A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts:Social media posts misconstrue Biden's joke about selling 'state secrets'CLAIM: A video shows President Joe Biden openly admitting to selling state secrets.
Spokespersons for the White House declined to comment, but an AP reporter who attended Friday's roundtable confirmed Biden made the joke at the beginning of the event as the president and his guests were already seated at the table and reporters were beginning to file into the room. The false claims followed an announcement by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that the U.S. has seen five cases of malaria spread by mosquitoes in the last two months — the first time there's been local spread in 20 years. There were four cases detected in Florida and one in Texas.
Aedes aegypti cannot and do not transmit malaria, concurred Nora Besansky, a biology professor at the University of Notre Dame who specializes in mosquitoes. A small subset of Anopheles mosquitoes are the only ones that do transmit human malaria, Besansky said in an email. She added that Oxitec only releases male Aedes mosquitoes — but it's female mosquitoes that bite people for blood and"thus only the female mosquitoes transmit malaria parasites.
Some social media users continue to doubt the phenomenon and are sharing as evidence a meme claiming that there hasn't been a decline in the number glaciers since Gore was born 75 years ago. The image, shared on Instagram, shows a photo of a young Gore with text under the image that reads:"The day Al Gore was born there were 130,000 glaciers on Earth. Today, only 130,000 remain."
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