The gulf between her new account and the breathless reaction to the 2015 image points to the difficulty of recalibrating expectations of acceptable decorum in the #MeToo era, when virality is easily mistaken for certainty.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04/01/biden-grasped-cabinet-officials-wife-photo-went-viral-now-she-says-everyone-had-it-wrong

That's odd, I am more likely to mistake virality for "enormously enhancing of my view of myself as a right-thinking person" and "most unlikely to be true as stated".

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