Yahoo News No, the Albanian PM didn’t call the US 'the devil'
A short clip of a press conference held by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has gone viral on social media. The accounts sharing it claim that the Albanian leader called the United States “one of the three evils of the world”. But the video clip was misleadingly edited and the Albanian prime minister was in fact referring to the Albanian dictatorship of the 1980s.
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A clip from a press conference given by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania appeared to show the Albanian leader describing the United States as “evil" went viral on social media.
But the clip was misleadingly edited and taken out of context. The full version of the press conference broadcast on the YouTube channel of the US State Department shows that the Albanian prime minister was actually referring to the Albanian dictatorship of the 1980s.
The fact check, in detail
A 20-second video clip showing a press conference given by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Edi Rama, prime minister of Albania, garnered millions of views on social media in June. A caption was added to the video, saying in English: “The Prime Minister of Albania talks about the three evil things in the world in front of Blinken (lotta balls on him).” In the video Mr. Rama is heard apparently saying in English that the “three devils” of the world are “the United States, the Soviet Union and Israel” and adding that “in other words, American imperialism, Soviet social imperialism and Jewish Zionism”.
A truncated press conference
