Social media users have been sharing a photograph online that claims to show adult movie star Ron Jeremy and First Lady Melania Trump. This image is photoshopped.
Posts shared on Facebook and Instagram claim that Derek Chauvin was “a registered Democrat, working for a Democrat police chief… in a Democrat controlled city, in a Democrat controlled state” and that he was “protected by a Democrat controlled union.” The post also says that Chauvin had 18 complaints against him and was “let off multiple times by a Democrat prosecutor, now Democrat Senator and failed Democrat presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar.” The claims made in this post are partly false.
Posts on social media claim that Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with second-degree murder for the death of George Floyd, is a crisis actor who also appeared at the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012 and the Boston marathon bombing in 2013. These claims are false.
Social media posts claim looting has taken place at a jeweler in London. The posts actually contain a video showing a scene from the Bronx, New York.
An image on social media attributes a quote on arms and ammunition to the first president of the United States, George Washington. The quote, however, is partly inaccurate.
A lengthy post relating to Irish people and slavery has been widely reposted and shared on Facebook. The text is from a widely discredited 2008 article.
An article shared on social media has wrongly claimed that France has “surrendered” the city of Dijon to armed Algerian immigrants.
Social media users have been sharing an image online that makes several disparaging and false claims about George Soros. Some of these claims include Soros being a former Nazi, Soros “swearing to destroy the U.S.A.”, Soros owning ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter, and Soros paying for protesters.
A widely circulated image on social media makes the claim that the Confederate battle flag’s colors have religious significance. This is false.
Social media users are sharing a photo of a young man wearing the Schutzstaffel (SS) official uniform and incorrectly claiming it is billionaire philanthropist George Soros. The post implies Soros was in the SS and in the Socialist German Workers (Nazi) party. This is false.