10 Popular Political Photo Memes That Are Totally Bogus

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Friday, December 16, 2016

10. Bernie Sanders at Selma March

Widely circulated photo claims to show Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders at the Selma March. However, fact-checkers believe the photo to be of someone else who simply resembles a young Sanders. | (Photo: Facebook / Keith Strickland)

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont garnered a great deal of grassroots support for his primary challenge to Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party nomination.

As part of the groundswell of support he received, many supporters posted a photo on Facebook with varying captions of the famous 1965 Selma civil rights march and claiming that a young Sanders was among the marchers.

However, in January the fact-checking site Snopes looked into the claim and noted that while the man often pointed to as Sanders resembled the Senator, he was not in fact Sanders.

"There's no evidence Bernie Sanders took part in the 1965 march pictured above, other than a photograph showing a face in the crowd that bears some resemblance to him," noted Snopes.

"No one verifiably present at that march has recounted seeing Sanders there, no contemporaneous accounts of the march mentioned his name, and the face circled in the above photograph wasn't associated with Sanders' name until some 50 years after the fact."