{"id":1492399,"date":"2022-05-25T22:29:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T02:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1492399"},"modified":"2022-05-25T22:30:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T02:30:05","slug":"fact-check-do-these-images-show-dozens-of-jets-parked-in-switzerland-for-the-2022-world-economic-forum-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-do-these-images-show-dozens-of-jets-parked-in-switzerland-for-the-2022-world-economic-forum-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Do These Images Show Dozens Of Jets Parked In Switzerland For The 2022 World Economic Forum Meeting?"},"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\">38<\/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-do-these-images-show-dozens-of-jets-parked-in-switzerland-for-the-2022-world-economic-forum-meeting%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=1492399&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>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=109228168465068&#038;id=100081336548365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> allegedly shows scores of private jets parked at the 2022 World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The images included in the post predate the current meeting. One image was taken in Las Vegas in 2015 before a boxing match while the other was taken during a WEF meeting in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The WEF is holding its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland from May 22-26, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2022\/05\/davos-2022-whos-coming-and-everything-else-you-need-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">organization<\/a>\u2018s website. This year\u2019s meeting, themed \u201cHistory at a Turning Point: Government Policies and Business Strategies,\u201d is expected to be attended by about 2,500 people, the website reports.<\/p>\n<p>An image shared on Facebook claims to show two images from the event, both showing dozens of private planes parked on runways. \u201cIn case you were wondering, this is what the parking lot at the Davos 2022 Climate Change conference looks like,\u201d reads the image\u2019s caption.<\/p>\n<p>Both photos predate the current WEF meeting. A reverse image search revealed the first photo was shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LevanReid\/status\/594653918405140480\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> in May 2015 by WBZ sports reporter Levan Reid with a caption stating it was taken in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The amount of private jets at the Las Vegas airport is out of hand. @MayweathervsPac <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sChygYt0PW\">pic.twitter.com\/sChygYt0PW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Levan Reid (@LevanReid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LevanReid\/status\/594653918405140480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe amount of private jets at the Las Vegas airport is out of hand. @MayweathervsPac,\u201d the caption reads. The photo appeared in articles published by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3066229\/Good-luck-leaving-Las-Vegas-Travel-chaos-listers-attended-Mayweather-Pacquiao-fight-private-jets-parked-wing-wing-McCarren-Airport.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Mail<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/mayweather-vs-pacquiao-las-vegas-5631329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mirror,<\/a> both of which reported on a large backlog of private jets trying to leave Las Vegas following a boxing match between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao that year. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/11\/03\/fact-check-image-private-planes-climate-change-cop26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Image Show Dozens Of Private Jets At The UN\u2019s COP26?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The second photo was originally captured by <a href=\"https:\/\/pictures.reuters.com\/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&#038;VBID=2C0FCI0HMDERF&#038;SMLS=1&#038;RW=1440&#038;RH=789&#038;POPUPPN=3&#038;POPUPIID=2C0BF1FIDHQZ2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters photographer<\/a> Arnd Wiegmann in January 2016. \u201cPassenger jets are parked at the Swiss Airforce base in Duebendorf, Switzerland January 21, 2016,\u201d reads the photo\u2019s description, which goes on to explain the airport was being used for arrivals and departures of WEF attendees for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/events\/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Davos meeting<\/a> that year.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time a tarmac filled with jets has been falsely linked to a summit of global leaders. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/06\/22\/fact-check-g7-summit-parking-lot-airplanes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check Your Fact<\/a> previously debunked an image from June 2021 that purportedly showed multiple jets lining a runway ahead of a G7 meeting in the U.K.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook allegedly shows scores of private jets parked at the 2022 World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.Verdict: False The images included in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":1492406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492399","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\/1492399","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=1492399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1492406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}