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Posts Wrongly Conflate U.S.-China Prisoner Swap with Biden’s Recent Pardons

Posts Wrongly Conflate U.S.-China Prisoner Swap with Biden’s Recent Pardons

President Joe Biden granted pardons and commutations to more than 1,500 individuals on Dec. 12. Social media posts wrongly claim those pardoned included a Chinese national, Shanlin Jin, imprisoned for child pornography. Jin was granted clemency as part of a prisoner swap last month that freed three Americans held for years in China.