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Does this picture show the 2017 Women's March? Yes, that is true. The picture was taken during the demonstration on January 21, 2017 in Washington D.C., the day after President Trump's inauguration. Since then the photo has been shared by various people without context or sometimes implying it was a picture of the November 14, 2020 Washington D.C. protests in favor of President Donald Trump.
An example of the picture being published without context can be seen in this post (archived here) by Dr. Rashid A. Buttar shortly after the November 14 protest.
This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Sun Nov 15 14:18:35 2020 UTC)
Here is video taken of the same scene at the time :
Thanks to everyone in this video at The @womensmarch in DC & other cities throughout our country and the world!! #GetInvolved #DontGiveUp pic.twitter.com/kZGY3a6VDx
-- (swah-rey) (@swahrey) January 21, 2017
Updates:
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2020-11-15T19:04:33Z 2020-11-15T19:04:33Z Fixed typo in the first paragraph that showed the year as 2020 instead of 2017.
