{"id":557870,"date":"2021-06-09T10:06:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=557870"},"modified":"2021-06-09T10:06:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:06:32","slug":"fact-check-video-claims-to-show-a-may-29-march-in-london-against-covid-19-vaccine-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-video-claims-to-show-a-may-29-march-in-london-against-covid-19-vaccine-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Video Claims To Show A May 29 March In London Against COVID-19 Vaccine Passports"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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-video-claims-to-show-a-may-29-march-in-london-against-covid-19-vaccine-passports%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=557870&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233165714-scaled-e1623103645106.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fred.merchant1\/videos\/4240312002688255\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a May 29 march in London in protest of COVID-19 vaccine passports.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The footage, which is from March 2019, depicts a protest pushing for a new vote on Brexit.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people marched in London on May 29 to protest COVID-19 vaccine passports and lockdowns, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/29\/anti-vaccine-passport-protesters-occupy-westfield-mall-in-london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Guardian<\/a>. Hundreds of those protesters also stormed the city\u2019s Westfield shopping center and remained inside for about 30 minutes before police removed them, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>The U.K.\u2019s Cabinet Office had been conducting a review into vaccine passport use, specifically for entering crowded places like nightclubs and sporting events, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/vaccine-passports-trialed-uk-controversial\/story?id=76976981\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ABC News<\/a>. The U.K. National Health Service (NHS) app was updated to serve as a vaccine passport, recording when a user had received 2 vaccine doses, the Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk\/news\/using-the-nhs-app-as-a-covid-vaccination-passport\/380028\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fred.merchant1\/videos\/4240312002688255\">video<\/a> shared June 2 on Facebook shows a continuous aerial shot moving along various London streets filled with crowds of thousands of people, while text in the footage identifies locations like Parliament Square, Trafalgar Square and Hyde Park. A BBC logo is displayed in the top-left corner of the video. \u201cFreedom March London 29\/05\/21,\u201d text accompanying the video reads.<\/p>\n<p>The video does not, in fact, show footage from the May 29 march in London. Through a reverse image search of key frames, Check Your Fact found the same footage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/uk-47681229\">published<\/a> by BBC News on March 23, 2019, with the title: \u201cBrexit: Aerial footage of massive People\u2019s Vote march.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/05\/21\/fact-check-anthony-fauci-cdc-fda-employees-refuse-covid-19-vaccine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did Anthony Fauci Say 40-50% Of CDC And FDA Employees Refuse To Take The COVID-19 Vaccine?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The March 23, 2019, People\u2019s Vote march was held in support of a second referendum on Brexit, the U.K.\u2019s impending departure from the European Union, CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/23\/us\/gallery\/brexit-march\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. U.K. citizens had voted in favor of Brexit by a 51.9% to 48.1% margin in a 2016 referendum, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/graphics\/2016-brexit-referendum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bloomberg<\/a>. The efforts to keep the U.K. in the E.U. were unsuccessful, and the country ultimately left on Jan. 31 2020, The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/31\/world\/europe\/brexit-britain-eu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210531102536\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/politics\/2021\/05\/30\/uk-vaccine-passport-plans-scrapped\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Telegraph<\/a> reported May 30 that plans to mandate the use of vaccine passports were scrapped in the U.K., though a government official told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/uk\/uk-vaccine-passport-plans-be-scrapped-telegraph-2021-05-30\/\">Reuters<\/a> a final decision had not yet been made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on Facebook purportedly shows a May 29 march in London in protest of COVID-19 vaccine passports.Verdict: False The footage, which is from March 2019, depicts a protest &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279723,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233165714-scaled-e1623103645106.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Video Claims To Show A May 29 March In London Against COVID-19 Vaccine Passports","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233165714-scaled-e1623103645106.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Video Claims To Show A May 29 March In London Against COVID-19 Vaccine Passports","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557870","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}