“Photos show injured people who were "Beat up by BLM a hate group.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 23 Aug 2020.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
What FactCheck.org found
Social media posts this summer claimed that Black Lives Matter activists were responsible for the beating of elderly white people shown in the posts’ photos. But the pictures have been online for at least five years.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 23 August 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 28 August 2020, 5 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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Related checks
- PolitiFact: False“Elderly people were “beat up by a BLM hate group” for being white.”