This isn’t a real NBC News headline about a Biden impersonator exploiting immigrants

Accompanying an image of a white-haired man in a suit smiling for the camera is what appears to be a sensational NBC News headline: "Texas farmer arrested for using illegal immigrants for free labor by pretending to be Joe Biden and threatening to deport them." 

The image looks like a screenshot from NBC’s website.  An Instagram post sharing the image includes this commentary: "Free labor? It’s called slavery." 

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(Screengrab from Instagram)

It doesn’t appear on NBC’s website, nor in Google search results where you can find echoes of old headlines even after they’ve been deleted on a news outlet’s site. Looking more broadly online, we didn’t find the story on any credible sites. The headline does appear on sites that look like — but are not — news websites, as well as on meme pages. 

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We did a reverse image search for the supposed farmer in the post and found that he’s no farmer at all but a Brooklyn-born impersonator of President Joe Biden. He lives in London. 

We rate this post False.