A video circulating on social media shows an alleged caravan made up of thousands of truckers heading to Texas to support the state in its growing confrontation with the Biden Administration over border protection.
But the video offers false information.
The recording, which is from 2022, actually shows a caravan of truckers, called the
People's Convoy
, who drove from California to the Washington DC area, to demand an end to restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The false information accompanying the video has been denied by various news agencies, including Reuters and The Associated Press.
On Facebook, for example, a user shared the video, claiming that it was a “convoy of truckers” that was arriving in Texas “to help secure the border.”
Other users shared the 2022 video on the social network
“5,000 truckers are heading to the Texas border in support of Texas,” reads another post on X that shared the video.
“Who else supports Texas?
"The mainstream media doesn't want you to SHARE this!"
Set to music by
Eye of The Tiger
by the 1980s band Survivor, the video shows aerial footage of a line of trucks driving down highways and other roads, cheered on by crowds of fans waving American flags.
As of Tuesday, the X post had received approximately 27,000 likes and been shared 10,000 times, according to the AP.
Currently the publication is still on the social network, with the clarification that it is a video from 2022.
What is certain is that last Monday, a caravan of drivers leaving Norfolk, Virginia, asking to secure the border, headed to Texas.
However, a live stream from one of the participants only showed about 40 vehicles as they passed through Jacksonville, Florida, on their way to the border on Tuesday morning, according to the news agency.
Organizers expect two other groups of drivers to leave simultaneously for the border.
One would depart Feb. 1 from Dripping Springs, Texas, bound for Yuma, Arizona.
The other, which will also end in Yuma, will depart from San Ysidro, California, another area located near the border with Mexico.
Three demonstrations are scheduled for February 3.
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Organizers of the 2022 convoy against COVID-19 restrictions, called
El Convoy del Pueblo
, wrote in a statement on Facebook that they “are not involved nor have they assisted in any way at this time” with the groups currently traveling to the border. , but they encouraged them to continue, according to the AP agency.
The 2022
People's Convoy
video has recirculated online with false information after the US Supreme Court allowed border patrol agents to temporarily remove barbed wire fences along the US border. Texas with Mexico on January 22, 2024.
Some users on social media are using images of the 2022 convoy to falsely claim that thousands of truckers are traveling to help protect Texas.
They call to protect the border
Organizers of the group currently traveling to the border are emphasizing nonviolence, as they struggle to organize an event as large as they had said it would be, and convince their colleagues on the conspiracy-theory right not to do so. This is a great government setup.
Some right-wing media outlets have exaggerated organizers' claims that 700,000 participants are expected on Saturday and thousands of trucks in the caravan, but images and live streams of the convoy have indicated a much smaller number.
With information from
The Associated Press
and
Reuters
.
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