Fact-checking claims about college protests over Gaza war

Published April 30, 2024 at 8:52 AM EDT

A number of claims have been made about the campus protests over the war in Gaza.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Louis Jacobson, senior correspondent at PolitiFact — the non-partisan fact-checking website from the non-profit Poynter Institute — to fact-check some of the claims.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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