{"id":1049279,"date":"2021-11-23T17:58:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T22:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1049279"},"modified":"2021-11-23T17:58:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T22:58:35","slug":"fact-check-does-this-photo-show-a-protest-against-covid-19-lockdowns-in-austria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-photo-show-a-protest-against-covid-19-lockdowns-in-austria\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Photo Show A Protest Against COVID-19 Lockdowns In Austria?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-photo-show-a-protest-against-covid-19-lockdowns-in-austria%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1049279&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A picture <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/185333451980468\/posts\/1260554194458383\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a recent anti-lockdown protest in Vienna, Austria.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The picture shows a protest that occurred in Russia in 1991, not a recent protest in Austria.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Austrian government announced last week that it would be implementing a national lockdown and a vaccine mandate in response to record-high COVID-19 cases in the country, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-pandemic-lifestyle-health-europe-restaurants-9627ef468fa8484796d33e8dc656e989\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a>. This news prompted 40,000 protesters to gather in Vienna, the country\u2019s capital, over the weekend to attend a rally in opposition to the lockdown and mandate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/20\/world\/europe\/austria-lockdown-vaccine-mandate-covid.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>One image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/185333451980468\/posts\/1260554194458383\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> on Nov. 21 shows a large crowd gathered in a public square allegedly in Vienna. \u201cAustria Rises,\u201d reads the caption. \u201cThis is Vienna, Austria today opposing Lockdown!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Through a reverse image search, Check Your Fact discovered the picture was actually taken during a 1991 protest in Moscow, Russia. It can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apimages.com\/metadata\/Index\/Watchf-AP-I-RUS-APHS304320-Russia-Unrest-1991\/9bfa615888274dceb512b623b637e716\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AP Images<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/10\/18\/fact-check-protest-italy-covid-health-pass-music-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Image Show A Protest Against Italy\u2019s COVID-19 Health Pass?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHundreds of thousands of protesters pack Moscow\u2019s Manezh Square next to the Kremlin, Sunday, March 10, 1991, demanding the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and his fellow Communists give up power,\u201d reads the image\u2019s caption. \u201cThe crowd, estimated at 500,000 was the biggest anti-government demonstration in the 73 years since the Communists took power, and came a week before the nationwide referendum on Gorbachev\u2019s union treaty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The same photo can be found in an article published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/photo\/2011\/12\/20-years-since-the-fall-of-the-soviet-union\/100214\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Atlantic<\/a>, which verifies the circumstances of the protest.&nbsp;The demonstration pictured is one of several anti-government protests that occurred across the former Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early 1990s prior to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/cold-war\/fall-of-soviet-union\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dissolution<\/a> of the Soviet Union in December 1991, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/amp\/soviet-union-protests-1991\/31429278.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Radio Free Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Images and videos from the recent protest in Vienna can be found in articles published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/thousands-protest-vienna-against-covid-restrictions-before-lockdown-2021-11-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/photos-show-thousands-of-anti-lockdown-protestors-in-vienna-2021-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Business Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A picture shared on Facebook purportedly shows a recent anti-lockdown protest in Vienna, Austria.Verdict: False The picture shows a protest that occurred in Russia in 1991, not a recent protest &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}