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On 1 February 2017, the web site Alternative Media Syndicate published an alarming photograph of burning tents alongside a claim that police had raided Standing Rock camps, dismantling shelters and burning what remained: Appended to the Alternative Media Syndicate item was the dramatic photo reproduced above, which a reverse image search identified as a still frame from the HBO production Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (a historical drama about Native Americans in the American West in the 1860s and 1870s). According to the Facebook page of prominent Dakota Access Pipeline protester Dallas Goldtooth, the claim that police were raiding and burning Standing Rock protest camps was fake news: Native News Online also noted in response to the report that even [though] there was strong militarized police presence which resulted in 76 water protectors arrested, the police did not set fire to the tepees. A teleSUR news report on police activity at Standing Rock also made no mention of any camp there being set afire by police: The Morton County [North Dakota] Sheriff's social media accounts carried a video showing them evicting rogue protesters from what they described as an illegal protest camp on private property: Alternative Media Syndicate later replaced the image of burning shelters with a similar movie still, but did not update the claim associated with it. The following update was added to the bottom of the article:
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