“News outlets are misusing a boy’s image to report the same child died of COVID-19 in three different countries.”
Social media posts
Facebook. Claim dated 14 Apr 2020.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
What FactCheck.org found
Social media posts reference the deaths of three young people from COVID-19 in Europe. But the posts do not show that news outlets misused the same image of one boy to report the deaths of three children.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 14 April 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 5 May 2020, 21 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3508753225808794&set=a.101623763188441&type=3&the…
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