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  • 2019-06-05 (xsd:date)
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  • Is This a Video of UK Trump Supporters from June 2019? (en)
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  • The issue of crowd size was once again a contentious topic online as U.S. President Donald Trump made a state visit to the U.K. in June 2019. While news outlets reported that thousands of anti-Trump protesters far outnumbered the president's supporters, Trump called reports of large protests fake news: To further complicate the issue, a number of misleading images and videos were circulated on social media about pro- and anti-Trump crowds. For example, an image showing a championship parade for the Liverpool Football Club was circulated as if it captured a crowd of Trump supporters. A video supposedly showing hundreds of people chanting We Love Trump was also widely circulated on social media, often shared with the claim that the news media were refusing to report on this large crowd of Trump supporters. Facebook user James Johnson, the founder of NCFire, an anti-immigration group that has previously spread dubious information, captioned his version of the video: Massive crowd in the UK chants We Love Trump (that's funny, every report i see on TV has the SAME anti-Trump video and NOTHING about this pro-Trump video). Johnson's video racked up more than 1 million views within a day of its initial posting. Another posting of that same video on Twitter racked up an additional 500,000 views: The news media didn't report on this crowd scene in June 2019 because the video was not taken in June 2019. The original was produced nearly a year earlier, in July 2018, and shows a mixture of Trump fans and supporters of Tommy Robinson, a right-wing activist who founded an anti-Muslim group: Trump's visit to the United Kingdom in July 2018 coincided with a Free Tommy Robinson rally. Many of the attendees carried Britain Loves Trump signs, wore MAGA hats, and at one point chanted We Love Trump. Here's how Fox News and the Associated Press described the event: Additional footage of that 2018 protest can be viewed below: (en)
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