A doctored screenshot falsely suggests that a Canadian media company published a story headlined: “U.S. Marines now able to wear LGBTQ+ pin on uniform”. There is no evidence the article was ever published. The journalist who supposedly wrote the story said the screenshot was faked.
The screenshot has been shared hundreds of times on Twitter (here) and on Facebook (here), where commentators condemned the supposed rule change.
"this is my dilator there are many like it but this one is mine" pic.twitter.com/DJaGozHuyR
— User (@UserReturned) June 27, 2022
The screenshot suggests the article was published by Global News – but no such article exists on the Global News website (here). If such an article was published and deleted, no trace of it exists in The Internet Archive.
The screenshot also suggests the article was written by the journalist Kathryn Mannie. But she told Reuters the image had been “photoshopped. “I did not write this article and the contents are untrue,” she said.
Rishma Govani, Director of Communications for Global News, told Reuters by email that the article was never published on the GLobal News site and was “falsely associated with the Global News brand.”
The current Marine Corps uniform policy has not been updated since May 2018 (here).
VERDICT
A fabricated screenshot falsely suggests that Global News published a story about U.S. marines being allowed to wear “LGBTQ+ pins”. No such article was published, and no such change in uniform guidelines has been announced.
This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our work to fact-check social media posts here.
