As shared
“Kent police have put signal blockers near cruise terminal in Dover to prevent people from live streaming the invasion.”
Posted on X by @HJB_News__ · Shown as an embedded post · Source
The photo is real, but it is an old product picture. It has nothing to do with Dover.
Based on 1 strong and 2 supporting pieces of evidence.
What we found
This photo shows a portable device for blocking phone signals, standing on a road. On 4 October 2026 an X account shared it saying Kent Police had put signal blockers near the cruise terminal in Dover to stop people live-streaming, and the post passed a million views. Lead Stories found the same picture years earlier: on a Turkish shop's website, with a web address pointing to January 2023, and on a Chinese military equipment site dated 2022. It is a product photo with no link to Dover. Kent Police's own video about the protests, posted on 2 October, did not mention signal jammers, and photos from the 3 October demonstration showed no such device. A real photo can still carry a false story, so search for older copies before trusting the caption.
Key facts
- Original source
- Posted on X by @HJB_News__
- First published
- By 2022, on product listings online
- Earlier appearances
- Not recorded
- The claim you saw
- “Kent police have put signal blockers near cruise terminal in Dover to prevent people from live streaming the invasion.” · not supported by the evidence
- Signs of AI
- None that decide it
The evidence, strongest first
Strong Decides the answer
Published fact-checkLead Stories, 5 October 2026↗Supporting Points the same way
Older copies onlineThe picture appeared on a Turkish retailer's site (address marked January 2023) and a Chinese military equipment site dated 2022.↗Nothing in police statements or protest photosKent Police's 2 October video made no mention of jammers, and photos of the 3 October demonstration show none.↗Weak Shown, not relied on
None.
Detector scores are often wrong, so they never decide a verdict here.
What we couldn’t establish
Who took the original product photo, or where it was first published. If you know more, tell us.
Bottom line
A real but years-old product photo, wrongly shared as police equipment in Dover.
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