|
?:reviewBody
|
-
On 17 August 2016, the liberal blog Winning Democrats posted a YouTube video alleging to show images of a purported parade in support of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. The video features what it claims to be audio transmissions over CB radios of drivers participating in the event: The video, which was posted by a YouTube user with the handle Celebrate The GOPocalypse, claims the event took place in Wrentham (misspelled as Wrenthem), Massachusetts on 30 July 2016: In the video, male voices can be heard using racial slurs and discussing violence against people of color, including talk of lynching. While the video was shared widely across the Internet by liberal blogs, we found no evidence that the comments were made by drivers participating in the parade or that the events occurred as claimed. One truck in the video's images does bear writing that reads Trump and Make America Great Again (Trump's campaign logo) on its side, but most of the vehicles are adorned with American, Confederate and yellow Gadsden flags. It's unclear what the event is actually about, and the video provides no proof it is in fact a parade for Trump (although some of the participants may have been Trump supporters). Further, it's unclear where the audio of the supposed radio transmissions come from. They easily could have been recorded elsewhere, by people uninvolved with the event, and edited into the video. The fact that the comments seem to be random racist soundbites, as opposed to actual conversations between drivers, raises doubts about the credibility of the video.
(en)
|
![[This page as RDF]](http://data.gesis.org/claimskg/static/rdf-icon.gif){kind=icon}