The video lists what it claims to be Obama’s assets, but almost everything is false or needs proof. The former American president is not the richest man in the country and does not even appear in the top 400.
A video, just over a minute long, shared on the social network Facebook, claims that former US president Barack Obama is the richest man in the United States. “This guy is the richest man in America,” the video begins, which then describes what it says are Obama’s assets: gold hotels, gold yachts, a skyscraper, private jets, helicopters and estates.
The video then alleges that Barack Obama made millions of dollars in book deals and also a contract with the streaming platform Netflix. After leaving the White House, and according to the video, the former US president (who left office in January 2017) was offered a mansion of more than eight thousand square meters. In addition, Obama will have acquired a property, for more than 11 million dollars, in one of the most exclusive areas of the United States.
It is claimed that, combined, all these assets make the former president of the United States the richest man in that country.
The video mixes true information with false information. If it is true that the Obama couple earned tens of millions of dollars thanks to contracts with a publishing house to write books and with Netflix to produce a documentary and a series, there is nothing to indicate that Obama has airplanes, much less hotels or a skyscraper in New York. . York.
In fact, the former North American president does not even appear on the list of the richest men in the United States. According to the 2024 Forbes list, the richest man in the United States is the owner of Tesla and the social network Elon Musk, with a fortune valued at 244 billion dollars. Very rich, but very far from Musk, is the owner of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, in second place, with 197 billion. Closing the podium is the owner of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, with a fortune estimated at 181 billion. In fourth place is Larry Ellison, from Oracle (175 billion), and in fifth place, with 150 billion, is the financial investor Warren Buffet.
Barack Obama does not even appear among the first 400 names on the list of the richest in the US.
Conclusion
Former US President Barack Obama is not the richest man in that country, and he does not even appear on the list of the 400 richest people in the US, prepared by Forbes magazine.
Thus, according to the Observer classification system, this content is:
MISTAKEN
In the Facebook classification system this content is:
FAKE: claims about the main content are factually inaccurate. Generally, this option corresponds to “false” or “mostly false” ratings on fact-checking websites.
NOTE: This content was curated by Observador as part of a fact-checking partnership with Facebook.
Source: Observadora
