{"id":2287327,"date":"2024-07-01T14:35:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T18:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-image-claims-to-show-us-weapon-shipment-to-philippines\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T14:38:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T18:38:13","slug":"fact-check-image-claims-to-show-us-weapon-shipment-to-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-image-claims-to-show-us-weapon-shipment-to-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Image Claims To Show US Weapon Shipment To Philippines"},"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\">22<\/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-image-claims-to-show-us-weapon-shipment-to-philippines%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=2287327&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--><p>The summary in\u200d English is about a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-deletes-russian-embassy-u-k-tweets-claiming-maternity-hospital-was-staged\/\" title=\"Twitter Deletes Russian Embassy U.K. Tweets Claiming Maternity Hospital Was Staged\">false claim circulating<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-kind-of-a-jerk-carlson-mocks-implosion-of-2-gop-hopefuls-during-interview-with-beck\/\" title=\"Carlson ridicules downfall of 2 GOP candidates in chat with Beck\">social \u2064media<\/a> that a photo showing\u2062 a \u2064weapons\u2064 shipment from\u200d the United States \u2064to \u2062the Philippines \u200bafter an incident in the West Philippine Sea\u200b with China is actually U.S.\u2063 humanitarian aid to\u200c Ukraine, not the Philippines. The claim is debunked as false, with the original image showing\u2063 aid to Ukraine, not the \u200dPhilippines.\u2062 The false claim stemmed from tensions between \u2064China and the Philippines following an incident where\u200b the Chinese Coast Guard seized weapons from Philippine Navy boats.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wartodaypage\/posts\/468205829189906\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wartodaypage\/posts\/468205829189906&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1719682849098000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1Xp1L0qvQQtM7r7PUy2NPC\"><span id=\"m_1865351915601525558mt-tracked-link_2_1719591912588\"><\/span>shared\u00a0on Facebook<\/a> claims to show a United States weapons shipment to the Philippines after a recent incident in the West Philippine Sea with China.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image shows U.S. humanitarian aid to Ukraine, not the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Social media users have been sharing images of weapons, claiming it shows US weapon shipments to the Philippines. These posts have been swirling since an incident between China and the Philippines. The incident saw the Chinese Coast Guard forcibly boarding Philippine Navy boats and seizing weapons, according to France 24.<\/p>\n<p>The social media post partially reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIn a major operation, the United States flew thousands of munitions, weapons and other military equipment to the Philippines. The flight was conducted by the US Air Force\u2019s 60th Air Port Squadron, which loaded cargo onto a Boeing 737 aircraft at Travis Air Force Base, California today. The aircraft is scheduled to land at Clark military base in the Philippines. Thousands of cargo are loaded onto a Boeing 737 aircraft at Travis Air Force Base, California on June 22, 2024. The plane will land at Clark military base in the Philippines in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This claim is false. Through a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-no-this-is-not-matt-gaetzs-actual-senior-photo-from-high-school\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: No, This Is Not Matt Gaetz\u2019s Actual Senior Photo From High School\">reverse image search<\/a>, Check Your Fact found that the first image is from a video showing a humanitarian aid mission posted to the U.S. Marine Corps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hqmc.marines.mil\/News\/MarinesTV\/videoid\/853241\/dvpTag\/foreign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHumanitarian aid cargo bound for Ukraine is loaded onboard an aircraft during a foreign military sales mission at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, July 29, 2022,\u201d partially reads the description. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2024\/06\/27\/fact-check-video-netanyahu-hezbollah-leaders-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Video Claims To Show Netanyahu Watching Hezbollah Leader\u2019s Speech)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The second and third images were from a posted to the on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/video\/831062\/dover-afb-hosts-ambassador-extraordinary-and-plenipotentiary-ukraine-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 10, 2022<\/a>. It is also related to Ukraine, with the video description reading,\u201dDover Air Force Base, Delaware hosted Oksana Markarova, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the United States, Feb. 10, 2022, during a foreign military sales mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Armed Forces of the Philippines told <a href=\"https:\/\/factcheck.afp.com\/doc.afp.com.34ZC4A2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AFP Fact Check<\/a> that there \u201cwas no event on June 22, 2024, where thousands of US military cargo were flown from California to Clark air base.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Facebook post falsely claims to show a US weapons shipment to the Philippines after an incident with China in the West Philippine Sea. The image actually shows US humanitarian aid to Ukraine, not the Philippines. Social media users have been sharing misleading images of weapons, claiming they are US shipments to the Philippines. However, through a reverse image search, it was found that the images are actually from a humanitarian aid mission to Ukraine. The claim of a US military cargo flight to the Philippines on June 22, 2024, is false according to a spokesperson for the Armed Forces of the Philippines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":2287328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2062196566-scaled-e1716403234816.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29362],"tags":[13420,19632,14194,9029,33538],"class_list":["post-2287327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-caller","tag-fact-check","tag-image","tag-philippines","tag-us","tag-weapon-shipment"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2062196566-scaled-e1716403234816.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287327","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2287327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2287328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}