{"id":576636,"date":"2021-06-29T16:05:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T20:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=576636"},"modified":"2021-06-29T16:05:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T20:05:23","slug":"fact-check-did-mike-tyson-wear-a-trust-in-god-not-in-vaccines-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-mike-tyson-wear-a-trust-in-god-not-in-vaccines-shirt\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Mike Tyson Wear A \u2018Trust In God, Not In Vaccines\u2019 Shirt?"},"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\">28<\/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-did-mike-tyson-wear-a-trust-in-god-not-in-vaccines-shirt%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=576636&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\/Mike-Tyson-scaled-e1624985412176.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10222590005090877&amp;set=a.2621855437688&amp;type=3&amp;theaterhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10222590005090877&amp;set=a.2621855437688&amp;type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> allegedly shows former professional boxer Mike Tyson wearing a \u201cTrust in God, not in vaccines\u201d t-shirt.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The anti-vaccine message has been digitally edited onto Tyson\u2019s shirt.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image shows Tyson standing in front of a brick wall wearing a black shirt that appears to say, \u201cTrust in God, not in vaccines.\u201d Tyson, a well-known boxer, became the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/mike-tyson-becomes-the-youngest-heavyweight-champ-in-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">youngest heavyweight champion<\/a> in the sport\u2019s history in 1986, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Mike-Tyson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Encyclopaedia Britannica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A reverse image search revealed the picture has been manipulated. The original photo, which Tyson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CH8je5ght9b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on his Instagram account<\/a> in November 2020, actually depicts the former boxer wearing a t-shirt featuring a black-and-white picture of himself standing in a boxing ring. In the altered image, the anti-vaccine graphic has been digitally added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhoto shop,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jo-mignano-225926125\">Joann Mignano<\/a>, Tyson\u2019s publicist, in an email to Check Your Fact when asked about the image shared on Facebook. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/02\/26\/fact-check-mike-tyson-10-million-marry-daughter\/\">(RELATED: Did Mike Tyson Offer Men $10 Million To Marry His Daughter?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact didn\u2019t find any instances of Tyson talking about his views on vaccines on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=vaccine%20(from%3AMikeTyson)&amp;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his verified Twitter account<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile\/100044612701436\/search\/?q=vaccine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook page<\/a>. The former boxer did, however, have anti-vaccine activist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/instagram-bans-robert-f-kennedy-jr-over-false-vaccine-covid-n1257449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a> on his podcast \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9jzs7y_MIJs&amp;t=1324s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hotboxin\u2019 with Mike Tyson<\/a>\u201d in September 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, removed Kennedy Jr.\u2019s account in February of this year for \u201crepeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines,\u201d a Facebook spokesperson said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/instagram-bans-robert-f-kennedy-jr-over-false-vaccine-covid-n1257449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Social media users have previously shared an image of Tyson that was photoshopped to include a graphic of a crossed-out syringe on his shirt, the fact-checking website <a href=\"https:\/\/fullfact.org\/online\/photo-of-mike-tyson-in-plan-demic-t-shirt-has-been-edited\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full Fact<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook allegedly shows former professional boxer Mike Tyson wearing a \u201cTrust in God, not in vaccines\u201d t-shirt.Verdict: False The anti-vaccine message has been digitally edited onto &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313673,"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\/Mike-Tyson-scaled-e1624985412176.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Did Mike Tyson Wear A \u2018Trust In God, Not In Vaccines\u2019 Shirt?","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576636","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\/Mike-Tyson-scaled-e1624985412176.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Did Mike Tyson Wear A \u2018Trust In God, Not In Vaccines\u2019 Shirt?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576636","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=576636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}