“Photo posted March 22 on Facebook shows an American fighter jet intercepting a Russian bomber near Alaskan airspace.”
Social media posts
Facebook. Claim dated 22 Mar 2022.
FactCheck.org rated thisMisleading
What FactCheck.org found
The incident was not related to the current situation in Ukraine; the photo appeared in an article published in Aero Magazine in June 2020.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 22 March 2022. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 25 March 2022, 3 days later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://perma.cc/M9R6-JTTW
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