{"id":35428,"date":"2018-06-23T15:02:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T20:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35428"},"modified":"2018-06-23T15:02:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T20:02:28","slug":"images-of-children-crying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35428","title":{"rendered":"Images of Children Crying"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ren\u00e9 Magritte Le Mal du Pays (Homesickness) <\/b>1940<\/center><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The two most viral photographs of the \u2018Trump Separation Scandal\u2019 have now been debunked, or at the very least been proven to have been used \u2018out of context\u2019. This is a dangerous development, as are the reasons to use them the way they have been. Both pictures are of children who had not been separated from their mothers at all. But both were used to depict just that: a child being taken away from its mother.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s dangerous about this is, first, that those who spread the narrative regardless of the truth may next permit themselves to use images from entirely different locations or times to make their point. Yes, children have been taken from parents at US borders. And attention for that is warranted, very much so. But playing loose with the facts turns those facts into a mere narrative in which nobody can tell fact from fiction anymore.<\/p>\n

First, a week ago already, I saw this on RT:<\/p>\n

Debunked: Viral Image Of Crying, Caged Toddler \u2018Detained By ICE\u2019 Not What It Seems <\/a><\/p>\n

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A distressing image of a crying toddler locked in a barred cage after purportedly being detained by US immigration officials has gone viral \u2013 but despite online claims, it does not actually depict what has been alleged. The image, which shows a little boy crying in a cage as he looks out between its bars, was shared by activist journalist and undocumented migrant Jose Antonio Vargas as a comment on the Trump administration\u2019s immigration crackdown on families.<\/i><\/p>\n

In the same thread, Vargas admitted that he came across the photo on a friend\u2019s timeline and was still looking for the original source. Nevertheless, the snap quickly went viral with Vargas\u2019 post garnering more than 23,000 retweets and many others sharing the image across their own social media accounts.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Images of Children Crying Ren\u00e9 Magritte Le Mal du Pays (Homesickness) 1940 The two most viral photographs of the \u2018Trump Separation Scandal\u2019 have now been debunked, or at the very least been proven to have been used \u2018out of context\u2019. This is a dangerous development, as are the reasons to use them the way they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2172,41,20637,7449,20638,5911,2199,20639,20640,584,20641,13924,10533,14190,5177,10333,10522],"class_list":["post-35428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-aclu","tag-australia","tag-cages","tag-children","tag-crying","tag-distress","tag-ice","tag-may","tag-nauru","tag-obama","tag-pedophrasty","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-separation","tag-taleb","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-time","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35429,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35428\/revisions\/35429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}