The image has been online for years, and does not show bikers making a protest on a French beach.
Tons of people are sharing this photo and claiming it shows two French bikers protesting the birkini ban by wearing a "motokini":
@CraigCons / Twitter / Via Twitter: @CraigCons
This French tweet has over 8,000 retweets and is being shared widely.
People are responding to the tweet with messages of solidarity with Muslim women that the photo supposedly shows.
@wordfreeland / Twitter / Via Twitter: @wordfreeland
The problem is that the claim being made about the photo and the "motokini" is false. A reverse image search shows that the photo of the bikers on a beach has been online since at least 2012.
This image has nothing to do with the birkini ban in France.
Unfortunately, the false claim about the photo continues to spread. It even led to a news story by a website in the Czech Republic.
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