{"id":680207,"date":"2021-08-24T15:05:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T19:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=680207"},"modified":"2021-08-24T15:05:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T19:05:15","slug":"fact-check-no-this-photo-does-not-show-an-anti-lockdown-protest-on-bondi-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-no-this-photo-does-not-show-an-anti-lockdown-protest-on-bondi-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: No, This Photo Does Not Show An Anti-Lockdown Protest On Bondi Beach"},"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-no-this-photo-does-not-show-an-anti-lockdown-protest-on-bondi-beach%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=680207&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:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2013-07-28T120000Z_1001467457_GM1E97S1R8B01_RTRMADP_3_POPE-BRAZIL-scaled-e1629766495548.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CSNqyv9FeYH\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=eb8435c6-191d-407b-8161-8d26f3f19b06\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Instagram<\/a> purportedly shows a massive anti-lockdown protest on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CSNqyv9FeYH\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\" readability=\"-8.2068965517241\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image shows people gathering on Copacabana Beach in Brazil for a 2013 Catholic mass with Pope Francis.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sydney, the Australian city in which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environment.gov.au\/heritage\/places\/national\/bondi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bondi Beach<\/a> is located, extended on Aug. 20 its COVID-19 lockdown until Sept. 30, with a curfew and outdoor mask-wearing requirement also being implemented, the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/business-health-sydney-coronavirus-pandemic-bbcb3815f4bfc3250de805a2d74ed558\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a> reported. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/08\/20\/fact-check-military-times-headline-covid-vaccines-heart-disease\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did The Military Times Publish This Headline About COVID-19 Vaccines?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A viral image claims <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CSNqyv9FeYH\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=eb8435c6-191d-407b-8161-8d26f3f19b06\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in an Instagram post<\/a> to show flocks of people gathered on the popular Australian beach to protest against COVID-19 lockdowns. Text inside the image reads, \u201cAlmost 1 million descend on iconic Bondi Beach to protest harsh Sydney lockdowns. Authorities overwhelmed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The photo, however, wasn\u2019t taken in Australia and actually predates the COVID-19 pandemic by over six years. Taken by photographer Tasso Marcelo for the AFP, it shows people gathered on Rio De Janeiro\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Copacabana+Beach\/@-22.975648,-43.1995256,8514m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x9bd54579a5956b:0xa102deeaffcb3e3!8m2!3d-22.9738729!4d-43.18531\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Copacabana Beach<\/a> on July 28, 2013, \u201cas Pope Francis celebrates the final mass of his visit to Brazil,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/hundreds-of-thousands-of-people-crowd-copacabana-beach-in-news-photo\/174704727?adppopup=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">its caption<\/a> on Getty Images. An estimated three million people congregated for the service, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-23483478\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact didn\u2019t find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Bondi+Beach+lockdown+protest&amp;oq=Bondi+Beach+lockdown+protest&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l2j69i61.6435j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">any credible media reports<\/a> about nearly a million people descending on Bondi Beach for a protest against lockdowns. Law enforcement stopped a planned protest against lockdowns from being held on July 31 by closing down the central district of Sydney, Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/australias-new-south-wales-reports-210-locally-acquired-covid-19-cases-2021-07-31\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. Such demonstrations had previously happened in the city and elsewhere in Australia on July 24, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/07\/24\/1020158692\/australia-covid-lockdown-protests-sydney-arrests-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-lockdown protests also occurred in Sydney and other Australian cities on Aug. 21, with over 250 demonstrators getting arrested nationwide, the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/health-arrests-australia-coronavirus-pandemic-235cbc89759672e00b030663b396ea1b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Instagram purportedly shows a massive anti-lockdown protest on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. Verdict: False The image shows people gathering on Copacabana Beach in Brazil &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680207","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\/680207","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=680207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680207\/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=680207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}