A banner with a swastika, 'Trump' and 'Pence' is from a Michigan coronavirus protest.
A Facebook post shows a photo to suggest that Nazi sympathizers are also Donald Trump fans and protesting stay-at-home orders in Michigan. The image is titled, 'And there it is - flag flown during Michigan protest in Lansing yesterday.' A man holds a banner with the Nazi swastika in the middle. 'Trump' is handwritten above the swastika and 'Pence' is handwritten below it. The post was flagged as part of Facebook's efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) The photo shared in the post is not from the Lansing rally, which was held April 15. The photo dates back to at least March 2, when a Twitter user included it in a tweet. The user wrote that the photo showed counterprotesters at a rally for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders that she attended at Ann Morrison Park in Boise, Idaho. It's not clear from the photo whether the banner was in support of President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, or whether it was meant to smear them. Video that the fact-checking organization Snopes linked to appears to show the same man holding the banner at the Boise event. Boise news media reported that hundreds of people on Feb. 29 had marched from the capitol to the park, where an event was held in support of Sanders, who ended his campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination on April 8.
Our ruling A post containing a photo of a man carrying a banner that bears a swastika and the last names of the president and the vice president is not from a demonstration in Lansing, Mich., that protested stay-at-home coronavirus orders. We rate the post False.
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