Does a viral video capture a convoy of truckers traveling to the southern border in 2024 to support Texas Governor Greg Abbott's stance on immigration? No, that's not true: The footage was posted online two years earlier. It captured truckers heading to Washington, D.C., not Texas.
The story appeared in a reel (archived here) on Facebook published on January 31, 2024, under the title:
The Trucks are Heading To Texas! 🤠🇺🇸
This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Mon Feb 5 17:04:01 2024 UTC)
The post, however, reused footage uploaded online in 2022 (archived here.) That footage portrayed a different event. At the time, truckers went to the country's capital to protest COVID-related restrictions:
(Source: Business Insider screenshot taken on Mon Feb 5 17:05:03 2024 UTC)
Unlike the reel on Facebook, the material published by Business Insider contained interviews with people referring to COVID-19 or restrictions, and that further confirms that the event is unrelated to the 2024 confrontation over the southern border between Gov. Greg Abbott and the Biden administration or truckers' position on it.
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