The Latest Fact Checks from the International Fact Checking Network (IFCN) 05/29/2020

The code of principles of the International Fact-Checking Network IFCN at Poynter is a series of commitments organizations abide by to promote excellence in fact-checking. The following fact checks come from IFCN fact checkers. (D. Van Zandt)

	Claim by Trump: “Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH” by adding a fact-check label to Trump’s tweet. Politifact rating: Pants on Fire Trump’s Pants on Fire claim that Twitter is ‘completely stifling free speech’ by fact-checking him
	Claim via Social Media: An image shared on Facebook claims the man pictured wearing a “Make Whites Great Again” hat is Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was videotaped kneeling on the neck of George Floyd. Check Your Fact rating: False FACT CHECK: DOES THIS PHOTO SHOW FORMER MINNEAPOLIS COP DEREK CHAUVIN WEARING A ‘MAKE WHITES GREAT AGAIN’ HAT?
	Claim by Viral image: “The woman in this photograph is Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, meeting with the Ku Klux Klan in 1926, Silver Lake, New Jersey.” PolitiFact rating: False No, this isn’t a photo of Margaret Sanger at a KKK meeting
	Claim by The HighWire: There is no need for social distancing because we have a treatment for COVID-19 Health Feedback rating: Unsupported To date, no therapy has been proven effective for preventing or treating COVID-19, contrary to claim by Dolores Cahill
	Claim by Viral image: A photo shows Donald Trump with “Derek Chauvin – the cop who killed George Floyd.” PolitiFact rating: False Police say the officer on stage with Trump isn’t Derek Chauvin
	(International: India) Claim: Rahul Gandhi tweeted – ‘Schools and colleges must reopen from 1st June on odd/even basis. Odd days teachers will come and even days, students will come’ Factly rating: False Rahul Gandhi did not tweet about reopening of schools and colleges on odd/even basis

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