Lights Out

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There was so much Material from George Floyd protests swirling around on Social Media , it is difficult to separate The Real from The Fake .

We have selected some of The Most common misleading posts, images and videos from The Past week.

Lights Out at the White house?

switching off A photo of the US President's residence, apparently with all its light, was widely shared on Twitter, including from Hillary Clinton .

The photo was Taken , together with a contrasting one celebrates gay rights under President Obama

Some People , it is divided to criticize Donald Trump for his leadership in the crisis.

But, a reverse image search shows that the photo is Old , Taken in the year 2014 and it was edited to make it look that all the lights are turned off.

The Fake version appeared in an article on the spoof news site News Thump in the year 2017, about Donald Trump turning off the lights to hide from FBI agents.

"Obviously wasn't fooled in the purpose of our photoshop, but to complement, a joke, we made it," says Richard Smith , editor-in-chief of News Thump.

The White house is the Tweet was soon deleted, but not before he had scored More Than a million views, Their stones are?

It is only the White house, lighting was not debated This Week , his Twitter account has also been Taken under the magnifying glass.

On Wednesday, the official White House Twitter account, a video installation showing a heap of stones on The Streets in various cities, and the protesters throw projectiles. The accompanying Tweet also accused an anti-fascist group Antifa, and "professional anarchists" from domestic terrorist to instigate by "staging stones and gun violence". It did not support any evidence for this claim.

Earlier in the week, we have investigated some of The Videos in the Assembly, and found that the stones were there before the protests began, often on construction projects in different cities.

A recent video from Dallas of this kind has been observed, More Than seven million times on Twitter. It shows a masked protester in front of some of the stones say: "This is a set-up", and that there is "no construction" in the vicinity.

"pictures" together of a local, recent works showed in the area. Dallas City Hall confirmed this also for The Bbc .

On Facebook and Instragram it, More Than a million interactions with the posts were mentioning, stones and speculation about a set-up, part of a surge of Social Media posts to discuss the protests.

It have been to mention More Than 33 millions of Tweets, either "black live matter" or "black live matters" since may 25, along with a flood of videos of the protests,

police document accused of looting

" When we saw that brick videos, rumors, that the protests staged or Set Up , are advanced online, and you also have the involvement of The Police .

A video with three million views to show alleged that The Police in Boston to smash your own car. The narrator says, "you are going to put the blame on the protesters".

But, another video of the same vehicle shows the people in the disc and jump on The Roof .

Boston police said a local TV station was damaged in The Car already, when The Police got there and the removal of a portion of the windshield officers were to drive it safely removed.

in the Meantime, widely shared posts on Twitter accused police officers looting. Photos and videos show an officer trainer boxes, loading them in the trunk of a car in Chicago.

But the Chicago police say that the rumors are "false" and explain that The Officer was to help The Victim of a burglary in the vicinity, and the pictures show to help The Detective , load the goods in The Shop -the owner of The Car .

1992-protest-video together on TikTok

We have seen many examples of Old videos, and re-released without clear labelling.

A video of an African-American man, the people asked not to destroy his business in large parts on TikTok. The posts imply, it is from the recent protests, but the video is actually from 1992.

He says: "It is true, I came from The Ghetto . Same as all of you have. "

The first post was titled "do not open yalls eyes it is a protest, not more", without a reference, it is from an Old protest

The clip has been shared, viewed More Than five million times, More Than 160,000 times and has garnered More Than 20,000 comments.

The Material has actually been to the La Riots of 1992 after the acquittal of The Police officers, the beating of Rodney King in 1991

AnalysisBy Marianna spring, a specialist in disinformation and Social Media reporter

There were a lot of real conversations about Black Lives matter is happening on Social Media This Week . With so much activity online, though, come misleading allegations, suspicious activity, and conspiracies.

Bad information, which in this setting can lead to confusion, stir up the tensions and distracts from a factual correct information.

In many ways, these protests are happening against the backdrop of a global pandemic, are the perfect Breeding Ground for misinformation.

Reporting by Alistair Coleman, Joice Etutu, Shayan Sardarizadeh, Marianna spring, Olga Robinson, and Ben knit.

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Source of news: bbc.com