Much more info and pics at Buzzfeed link, but here are a few-
24. No, a protester wasn't trying to board a bus with an ATM. The story was a prank from last year.
25. The man on the right is not Derek Chauvin, Snopes reports. He is an online troll and vocal supporter of President Trump named Jonathan Riches.
26. This protester in Chicago did not steal a police horse. He goes by the name Dread Head Cowboy and is known in the community for riding his horse in the city and surrounding areas.
He shared several videos and livestreams that show him riding around downtown Chicago during recent protests. In one, he jokingly yelled that he'd stolen the horse from the police, which caused some to think he was being serious.
27. The Oakland Zoo says no tigers have escaped, despite online rumors of a tiger wandering the streets.
Tigers are all accounted for at the Oakland Zoo. They just checked and confirmed.
Alameda County Sheriff
@ACSOSheriffs
Tigers are all accounted for at the Oakland Zoo. They just checked and confirmed.
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28. An anonymous account created Monday is sharing a fake photo, claiming it's of the protests. It's hiding the replies that correctly say the image is from the TV show Designated Survivor.
29. The context in which this video is being shared is misleading. There's no indication that the man being arrested is an FBI agent. The poster of one of the earliest versions of the video also said it was filmed a year ago.
30. Reports of an internet blackout in Washington, DC, are unverified. According to NetBlocks, a nonprofit organization that tracks service blackouts worldwide, there were no disruptions in DC over the last 48 hours. However, its monitoring would not cover technology that can throttle signal in a small localized area.
31. A screenshot of a message threatening to kill "white families" is being widely shared. It was allegedly posted to a buy-and-sell Facebook group. The account that posted it is not an official Black Lives Matter account and these types of threats are not part of the BLM movement or message. Anyone could have created the account and posted the message.
We reached out to a moderator of the Facebook group and to a user who allegedly saw the message, and will update with any additional information.
32. A giraffe did not escape from a zoo in Minnesota. The images used in tweets and on Snapchat are from a YouTube video uploaded in 2012.
33. A video from a protest in Boston does not show police officers destroying their own vehicle. The officers were removing a windshield that was damaged by protestors.
34. There have been no credible reports of police using live rounds or being authorized to use live rounds at any of the protests around the US.
35. One viral tweet showing a huge influx of donations has mischaracterized where they were sent. They were given to Touchstone Mental Health in Minnesota, a nonprofit focusing on mental illness, not a low-income housing center.
36. The man who drove a truck into Minneapolis protesters is not a Ukrainian soldier, Kyiv Post reported. They share a name, but look nothing alike.
37. A fake flyer claims George Soros, his Open Society Foundations, and the Thurston County Democrats in Washington State are paying people to be "professional anarchists." The OSF and Thurston County Democrats have said it's completely false.
38. No, MSNBC did not try to air footage of World War Z and say it's of the protests, First Draft reported. The man who created the prank has since clarified that it was meant to be a joke.
39. A Twitter account that claimed to be run by anti-fascist activists and made violent threats was actually run by a white nationalist organization. A Twitter spokesperson told NBC News it removed @ANTIFA_US after confirming it was created by Identity Evropa. This is the latest example of fake Antifa accounts being used to incite violence and spread disinformation.
40. People are sharing a photoshopped image that appears to show Adolf Hitler holding a bible the same way President Donald Trump did when he stood in front of St. John's Episcopal Church near the White House on June 1.
The original photo of Hitler does not show him holding a bible.
41. A children's hospital was not set on fire by protestors in Alabama or Ohio. The image on the left shows smoke from a fire in an apartment complex located behind a hospital in Columbus, Ohio. The same image was used to falsely claim that a children's hospital in Alabama was set ablaze, which the hospital debunked.
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