Fake News: Hungarian Border Police NOT Keeping Muslims From Crossing Border Using Pigs

Fact Check

  • by: Maarten Schenk
Fake News: Hungarian Border Police NOT Keeping Muslims From Crossing Border Using Pigs

Is the Hungarian Border Police deploying pigs to keep muslims from crossing the border? No, that's not true: an image making that claim is digitally altered. Here's an example of the image:

hungarianpolice.jpeg

The caption reads "Here's How Hungarian Border Police Are Keeping Muslims From Crossing Their Border..."

The image is a digital composite of several photos. The police in Hungary are really named Rendőrség so that part of the image has an actual Hungarian connection. We are not sure who the people in the background are as that part of the photo was too grainy to result in any matches in image search engines. But we are pretty sure the pig never was in Hungary. It was last seen in the Philippines in 2015:

Typhoon Koppu leaves 11 dead in Philippines | The Star

CABANATUAN, PHILIPPINES-Army, police and civilian volunteers rushed Monday to rescue hundreds of villagers trapped in their flooded homes and on rooftops in a northern Philippine province battered by slow-moving Typhoon Koppu, officials said. The typhoon blew ashore into northeastern Aurora province early Sunday, leaving at least 11 dead, forcing more than 65,000 villagers from their homes, and leaving nine provinces without electricity.

Want to inform others about the accuracy of this story?

See who is sharing it (it might even be your friends...) and leave the link in the comments.:


  Maarten Schenk

Lead Stories co-founder Maarten Schenk is our resident expert on fake news and hoax websites. He likes to go beyond just debunking trending fake news stories and is endlessly fascinated by the dazzling variety of psychological and technical tricks used by the people and networks who intentionally spread made-up things on the internet.  He can often be found at conferences and events about fake news, disinformation and fact checking when he is not in his office in Belgium monitoring and tracking the latest fake article to go viral.

Read more about or contact Maarten Schenk

About Us

International Fact-Checking Organization Meta Third-Party Fact Checker

Lead Stories is a fact checking website that is always looking for the latest false, misleading, deceptive or inaccurate stories, videos or images going viral on the internet.
Spotted something? Let us know!.

Lead Stories is a:


@leadstories

Subscribe to our newsletter

* indicates required

Please select all the ways you would like to hear from Lead Stories LLC:

You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link in the footer of our emails. For information about our privacy practices, please visit our website.

We use Mailchimp as our marketing platform. By clicking below to subscribe, you acknowledge that your information will be transferred to Mailchimp for processing. Learn more about Mailchimp's privacy practices here.

Most Read

Most Recent

Share your opinion