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False claim that U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris' membership card to Communist Party of the Soviet Union is a forgery

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A purported photo of a membership card identifying U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris as a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was shared on multiple social media platforms and websites.

The image purportedly sourced from Soviet archives actually comes from a website that allows anyone to create Soviet -era identification cards.

The photograph used in the Harris forgery, which was purportedly from 1984 , was taken at Howard University in 1986 .

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39

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61

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formal

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English

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59

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not hateful

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short-lived

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