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In August 2020, a photograph supposedly showing a huge crowd of QAnon supporters in Berlin, Germany, protesting against mask regulations and COVID-19 vaccinations was widely shared on social media: This is not a photograph of a QAnon protest in Berlin, Germany. This image was actually taken at a music festival in 1997. This image was circulated on social media in August 2020 as anti-lockdown protests were truly taking place in Berlin and other European cities. These protests attracted thousands of people, but they were nowhere near as large as the crowd pictured in the above-displayed image. The BBC reported that one of the largest protests took place in Berlin, and numbered close to 40,000 people: A video from DW, a German news outlet, provides a glimpse at the actual size of these protests: While these anti-mask protests were sizable, some social media users started to spread images in an apparent attempt to show that they were bigger than they actually were. The miscaptioned image, for instance, actually shows a bird's-eye view of The Love Parade, an annual music festival, in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin in 1997. The original photograph was taken by Robert Grahn and is viewable here. Another similar concert photo was mislabeled and shared as if it showed an anti-mask protest. The following image was shared on Facebook as if it showed yesterday's protest in Berlin, where over 1 million people marched against quarantine restrictions. An investigation by Reuters, however, found that this image was actually taken in Zurich, Switzerland, during Street Parade, an annual techno music festival. In turn, the Zurich photo was shared with a false caption yet again in October 2020, when it was claimed that it shows a Trump rally in Miami:
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