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  • 2019-04-29 (xsd:date)
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  • Does This Picture Show a Tiny Crowd Ten Minutes Before Sen. Bernie... (en)
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  • Does This Picture Show a Tiny Crowd Ten Minutes Before Sen. Bernie Sanders’ April 2019 Houston Rally? Claim A photograph shows a very small crowd ten minutes before a scheduled rally for Sen. Bernie Sanders in Houston. Rating Not True Like this fact check? Reporting On April 26 2019, Facebook page The Trump Train shared the following post (archived here ), claiming that it showed a crowd of a few dozen people in Houston ten minutes before Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) was scheduled to speak: https://www.facebook.com/TheTrumpTrainExpress/photos/a.959587150743121/2174109532624204/?type=3&theater Across the top of an image of a few dozen people, the text read: 4/24/19 – Bernie’s Rally crowd in Houston, 10 minutes prior to him taking the stage.... Underneath the image, a screenshot of a Houston Public Media article ( Bernie Sanders Rally Draws Big Crowd In Houston ) appeared underneath additional text added to the photograph: This is what the Fake News media calls a Big Crowd Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die The meme makes a very specific claim — that the image was taken just ten minutes prior to Sanders’ scheduled appearance. It also heavily implies that this was the entirety of the crowd there to greet him. According to BernieSanders.com , the event began at 5 in the afternoon local time, and doors opened at 3:30, an hour and a half before the rally. On the day of the rally, the same photograph was shared to Reddit’s r/The_Donald . However, at that point no one claimed that the image was ten minutes prior to the start of the rally. Three days later, a Twitter user posted the same image shared to Reddit, that time with the ten minutes claim included: @BernieSanders Rally crowd in Houston, 10 minutes prior to Him taking the stage.... pic.twitter.com/qa4rjknGek — the big fellow (@borderfox116) April 27, 2019 In fact, a number of people on social media pushed identical or extremely similar claims about the exact same image: https://twitter.com/right4trump/status/1121213585504518144 Bernie Sanders rally in Houston, the liberal media wants you to believe 30,000 showed up. pic.twitter.com/X8aDzMych1 — Standing Up (@LCohob) April 25, 2019 #BernieSanders Houston rally real crowd and media photoshopped close up cropped. pic.twitter.com/8IgPYkbyRJ — NJ MAGA 🇺🇸✝️ (@NJCommonSense) April 25, 2019 But a nearly identical photograph was shared to Twitter on the day of the rally. In that tweet, the poster said that the image was taken two hours before the rally, or 30 minutes before the stated doors open time: https://twitter.com/travispainter17/status/1121196645310504960 The same person sent a second tweet with a screenshot of a television showing a larger crowd during the rally: https://twitter.com/travispainter17/status/1121196786570399744 A similar photograph was timestamped at 4:30 local time, again prior to the start of the rally, contradicting the ten minutes before claim: Bernie Sanders Rallycin Houston.... There is a large convention in town, Astros game and Rockets game...that's all he can pull lol @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/vYJHHebTaY — David Pergande (@WilpowerRacing) April 24, 2019 Attendees of the rally also shared photographs of the crowd from the ground: #BernieInHouston takes the stage pic.twitter.com/6k1lSQC7cw — BrentSullivan🔻 (@BrentSullivan) April 24, 2019 There might be a baseball game and playoff basketball next door, but Houston still is here for @BernieSanders pic.twitter.com/rvQ7JHd0v1 — Ari Rabin-Havt (@AriRabinHavt) April 24, 2019 The image of a Bernie Sanders rally in Houston seen in the meme was originally labeled as having been taken two hours prior to the event, not ten minutes before. A number of unlinked accounts began sharing the same photograph and claim, despite a mismatch with images of the event after doors opened at 3:30 PM local time. According to the Houston Chronicle ‘s coverage of that event, about 3,000 people attended Sanders’ rally in support of his 2020 election bid. Posted in Disinformation , Fact Checks Tagged bernie sanders , bernie2020 , crowd size controversies , facebook memes , houston , political memes (en)
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