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Fact check: Derek Chauvin is not a registered Democrat, among other claims

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.

Fact check: False claims about George Soros  

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.  

Fact check: Photograph shows Nazi bookkeeper, not George Soros  

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.