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2024-09-21 14:10:02 UTC - HELPFUL
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This is a digitally altered image to replace Thomas Lugert with Barack Obama. The Obama photo is from 1999, not 1981. https://www.gettyimages.dk/detail/news-photo/then-illinois-state-senator-barack-obama-shown-in-a-1999-news-photo/112892700 The ID format wasn't introduced at Columbia until 1996. Obama graduated in 1983. https://web.archive.org/web/20120623104959/https://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss15/record2115.14.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama#:~:text=He%20graduated%20from%20Columbia%20University%20in%201983 Image template source. https://web.archive.org/web/20030405110848/https://www.lugert-online.de/Columbia_University/columbia_university.html Original image. https://web.archive.org/web/20050125124335im_/http://www.lugert-online.de/Columbia_University/studentID.jpg https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-student-id/ https://www.reuters.com/article/world/false-claim-obamas-columbia-university-id-card-shows-he-was-a-foreign-student-idUSKBN22G1VC/ https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/dec/09/facebook-posts/facebook-posts-still-claim-obama-wasnt-born-us/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2333806/fact-check-is-this-obamas-id/ https://www.truthorfiction.com/obama-student-id/
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