{"id":683858,"date":"2021-08-25T16:50:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T20:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=683858"},"modified":"2021-08-25T16:50:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T20:50:16","slug":"fact-check-does-this-video-show-french-protests-against-vaccine-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-video-show-french-protests-against-vaccine-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show French Protests Against 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\">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-does-this-video-show-french-protests-against-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=683858&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\/08\/GettyImages-1233976088-scaled-e1629833454185.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A video&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/522916442252145\/posts\/539082713968851\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/522916442252145\/posts\/539082713968851\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1629899383051000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE3lNOYejZwn-VDWZPIM58EwV6o9g\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a French protest against vaccine passports.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The video was taken in 2016 and shows a crowd in Iceland doing a popular chant seen at soccer games.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>France instituted a health pass that requires people to either be vaccinated, test negative for COVID-19 or provide proof of recent COVID-19 recovery in order to access restaurants, sports venues and other places, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/europe-business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-8a27d8a9cbfad3789e0fca8e24daaef4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a>. Protests against this health pass have occurred for six straight weekends, with thousands of people participating in them, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Aug. 21 Facebook post purportedly shows footage from one of these French protests. The video shows a large crowd of people clapping their hands in unison and then chanting. \u201cThe Entire Nation of France Has Come Together To Fight Against The Vaccine Passports,\u201d the caption of the video. <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>The footage is not, however, from one of the French protests. Through a reverse image search of key frames, Check your Fact found that the video was shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeWarmers\/status\/749917250392653824\">Twitter<\/a> in July 2016 by BenchWarmers, a sports news website. The video shows 10,000 Icelanders performing the Viking Thunder Clap, according to the tweet, and was <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170219224504if_\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/siminn\/status\/750064956620451840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">originally filmed<\/a> by Icelandic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siminn.is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">telecommunications company<\/a>&nbsp;Simmin, though it later deleted the tweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.0617283950617\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">AMAZING: Over 10,000 Thousand Icelanders Do The Viking-Clap\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Isl?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Isl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Euro2016?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Euro2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/siminn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@siminn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uyj5TDm4fg\">pic.twitter.com\/uyj5TDm4fg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BenchWarmers (@BeWarmers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeWarmers\/status\/749917250392653824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The chant in the video is known as the Viking Thunder Clap and it was popular during Iceland\u2019s run during the 2016 European Championship tournament in France, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/26\/sports\/world-cup\/world-cup-iceland-chant-thunder-clap.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a>. The use of the Viking Thunder Clap <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/26\/sports\/world-cup\/world-cup-iceland-chant-thunder-clap.html\">originated<\/a> from a 2014 soccer game between an Iceland team and Scottish team, and is thought to be inspired by the 2006 film \u201c300,\u201d which features Spartans shouting \u201cHuh!\u201d after Gerard Butler\u2019s character asks what their profession was, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video\u00a0shared on Facebook purportedly shows a French protest against vaccine passports.Verdict: False The video was taken in 2016 and shows a crowd in Iceland doing a popular chant seen &#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-683858","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\/683858","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=683858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683858\/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=683858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}