Las Vegas Sphere photo showing crude message to Biden was fabricated

The forthcoming Sphere venue in Las Vegas is true to its name: It’s a massive spherical structure that will host concerts and shows inside, and it recently started flaunting the power of its outdoor LED screen, transforming into what looked like a giant basketball, and later a blinking eye. 

A recent Facebook post suggests the sphere also displayed a more political message: "F — Biden."

An image in the post appears to show the sphere with the letter F followed by the American flag in place of two letters, and then the letter K above the president’s last name. 

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Sphere Entertainment Co. didn’t immediately respond to PolitiFact’s questions about the post, but we found no evidence that this message was actually displayed in Sin City. It doesn’t appear in a photo gallery of the sphere’s displays on the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s website, and we didn’t find any news stories reporting that the venue gave the figurative finger to President Joe Biden. 

Rather, the Instagram post appears to be a screenshot of a TikTok filter that lets users put their faces–and more–on the sphere. 

We rate claims the Sphere venue displayed a derogatory message at Biden False.