Did US Truckers Join Canadian ‘Freedom Convoy’?

In January 2022, as hundreds of truckers drove across Canada in a “Freedom Convoy” to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates, a video started circulating online that supposedly showed truckers from South Carolina in the United States on their way to join the protest.

This video is unrelated to the freedom convoy.

This video was originally posted to TikTok by @Farminglife1973, the social media account for the trucking company Bottomley Enterprises, on Jan. 22. While the original post made no specific mentions of the freedom convoy, COVID-19, or vaccines, many people assumed...