A post shared on Facebook claims the grandmother of Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland was photographed alongside Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Verdict: False The woman in the photo is not Freeland’s grandmother. A spokesperson for Freeland denied the authenticity of the claim in an email to Check Your Fact. Fact Check: Freeland’s maternal grandfather Michael Chomiak allegedly was an editor of Krakivski Visti, an alleged Nazi propaganda publication, according to Tablet Magazine . Freeland publicly denied this accusation in 2017, calling the accusations “part of a Russian disinformation campaign,” the Ottawa Citizen reported. Now, a Facebook post claims Freeland’s...
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