“Says Martin Luther King Jr. "was killed (smothered) in the hospital" and "the US government was found guilty in a court of law of conspiring to kill him.”
Social media posts
Instagram. Claim dated 14 Jan 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
In short
This claim spread on social media around 14 January 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 January 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Instagram posthttps://www.instagram.com/p/B7U6N1dB0l1/
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