Thread: Facebook Allows ‘Fake News’ Photo to Raise $18 Million for Border Cause

Facebook Allows ‘Fake News’ Photo to Raise $18 Million for Border Cause




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21 Jun 2018

Facebook says it is in the midst of a fight against “fake news” on its platform, but has allowed activists to raise nearly $20 million for migrants using a photo that is incorrectly said to show a daughter being separated from her mother.

The fundraiser, “Reunite an immigrant parent with their child,” asks Facebook users to donate money to RAICES, a charity described by USA Today as “a Texas nonprofit that helps families with legal advice and translation services.” The organizers of the viral fundraiser are reportedly a couple working in the tech industry in Silicon Valley.

The donation page for the fundraiser uses a now-iconic photograph of a two-year-old girl crying as her mother is searched by U.S. Border Patrol. The mainstream media presumed that the girl and her mother were separated.

However, news broke Thursday that the mother and daughter were never separated, and were in fact in U.S. custody at a family residential facility in Texas.

Furthermore, it emerged that the mother had been previously deported in the U.S. According to her husband in Honduras, she left him and three other children in early June without informing him, paying $6,000 to a “coyote” smuggler to take her northwards so she could seek better economic opportunities.

The photograph, by John Moore of Getty Images, is real — and Getty only claimed that the mother and daughter had faced “possible separation.” However, the story the media and activists had woven around the image is not accurate.

As of Thursday evening, the Facebook fundraiser had collected $17,794,627 — making it by far the single largest crowdfunding event in the history of the social media platform. The photograph was still being used to advertise the fundraiser, with the clear implication that the crying child in the photograph had been separated from her parents.

Facebook has come under criticism in recent months from conservatives, who allege that the company is pursuing a policy of censorship under the guise of improving the accuracy of information shared by users on the platform.

http://www.breitbart.com/border/2018...-border-cause/

FAKE NEWS

This mother and child need to be fast tracked deported back home.

She does not quality for asylum. Her own husband said she came here "for a better life" and a job. He want his wife and child to go home.

They do not apply for asylum in their home country because they know damn well they do not qualify.

NO asylum applications should be accepted at our Ports of Entry. We cannot allow millions of people to line up at our border.

Mexico is complicit in this human trafficking and putting these people's lives in danger.

The new President running for election in Mexico is calling for ALL countries to send their people here and Mexico will let them through.

DONALD TRUMP...YOU ARE THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF AND THIS IS A SECURITY THREAT...YOU NEED TO STOP ASYLUM CLAIMS AT OUR PORTS OF ENTRY!

MEXICO IS NOT OUR FRIEND, NO OUR ALLY, AND YOU NEED TO CUT OFF ALL FOREIGN AID TO MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA AND SEND THEIR PEOPLE HOME!

Mr President .
How come you don't ship the illegal immigrant's back Home & Mexico President help his country ( why you for get what you said about other country helping . & you will help Our country .that why we vote for you as you said Our country is a mess it not going to get any better if you let every one in .close the border down & has congress ever go to the border I don't think so ( cut off all welfare for all country & all free be & they will not come over Just like mexico .law 's )Dem do you job