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The New York Times Magazine editor-in-chief Jake Silverstein incorrectly shared Obama-era pictures of children sleeping in enclosed cages to take a swipe at the Trump administration – and that was only one of several Twitter stumbles by anti-Trump public figures over the holiday weekend.
It turned out the photographs were published by The Arizona Republic in 2014 after authorities detained over 1,000 children who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally and placed them in a detention facility.
“All of these photos are disturbing, but the first two are especially awful,” Silverstein wrote in the tweet, along with a link headlined, “First glimpse of immigrant children at holding facility.”
Silverstein eventually deleted his tweet and blamed being with his family for the embarrassing gaffe.
“Correction: this link, which was going around this morning, is from 2014. Still disturbing, of course, but only indirectly related to current situation,” Silverstein tweeted. “My bad (and a good reminder not to RT things while distracted w family on the weekend).”
The New York Times did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Silverstein was widely criticized for the blunder and his “correction” received over 1,400 responses ranging from followers referring to the Times as “fake news” to followers criticizing the editor for blaming his family.
CNN reporter Hadas Gold also shared the Obama-era image, prompting White House counselor Kellyanne Conway to ask a CNN reporter about the situation on Tuesday.
“Your CNN colleague retweeted two migrant children, I suppose, laying in a cage to make the point against this president. It happened under President Obama’s watch and then [she] deleted the tweet because it didn’t fit the narrative,” Conway said when approached by a CNN staffer at the White House before asking, “Do you or do you not care about the migrant children?”
CNN did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...mid-weekend-misleading-anti-trump-tweets.html
The New York Times Magazine editor-in-chief Jake Silverstein incorrectly shared Obama-era pictures of children sleeping in enclosed cages to take a swipe at the Trump administration – and that was only one of several Twitter stumbles by anti-Trump public figures over the holiday weekend.
It turned out the photographs were published by The Arizona Republic in 2014 after authorities detained over 1,000 children who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally and placed them in a detention facility.
“All of these photos are disturbing, but the first two are especially awful,” Silverstein wrote in the tweet, along with a link headlined, “First glimpse of immigrant children at holding facility.”
Silverstein eventually deleted his tweet and blamed being with his family for the embarrassing gaffe.
“Correction: this link, which was going around this morning, is from 2014. Still disturbing, of course, but only indirectly related to current situation,” Silverstein tweeted. “My bad (and a good reminder not to RT things while distracted w family on the weekend).”
The New York Times did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Silverstein was widely criticized for the blunder and his “correction” received over 1,400 responses ranging from followers referring to the Times as “fake news” to followers criticizing the editor for blaming his family.
CNN reporter Hadas Gold also shared the Obama-era image, prompting White House counselor Kellyanne Conway to ask a CNN reporter about the situation on Tuesday.
“Your CNN colleague retweeted two migrant children, I suppose, laying in a cage to make the point against this president. It happened under President Obama’s watch and then [she] deleted the tweet because it didn’t fit the narrative,” Conway said when approached by a CNN staffer at the White House before asking, “Do you or do you not care about the migrant children?”
CNN did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...mid-weekend-misleading-anti-trump-tweets.html
