“Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization.”
Social media posts
Facebook. Claim dated 26 Jul 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
There is no legal process for designating domestic groups as terrorist organizations. Black Lives Matter is not listed as a perpetrator group in a global database of nearly 200,000 terrorism incidents.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 26 July 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 1 August 2020, 6 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/LockNLoadWithLindsay/photos/a.829379927076676/3783696101645029/?…
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