Al Jazeera posts blurred doll, claims it to be a dead Palestinian baby
Article has also been posted on MSN.com. Just do a search for the article title.
I found the link to the article on Drudge Report. Article posted just today Dec 1st.
Al Jazeera has published on X footage of an emotional man holding a ‘baby’ with a blurred face wrapped in white.
However, social media users quickly shared footage of the ‘baby’ without the blurred edits shared by the News source, revealing it to be only a doll.
“He was born and martyred during the war...a month-and-a-half-old baby was martyred in the hands of his mother, after an Israeli bombing targeted the family home in the Al-Mughraqa area, south of the city,” Al Jazeera wrote alongside the doctored footage.
It is unclear if Al Jazeera had edited the footage themselves in an attempt to deliberately mislead the public or if they had shared the footage without properly researching the background. However, despite numerous people contacting the site about the falsified footage, the X post has remained published.
The X post has garnered over 17,000 views but only reposted 56 times.
While this footage could not be located on Al Jazeera’s Arabic website, other footage was found with adults crying over the death of dolls.
AND IN FURTHER NEWS ...
The OP of this thread cited a report published on "
The Grayzone". Identified as an American fringe, far-left news website and blog, founded and edited by American journalist Max Blumenthal. Blumenthal is an American author and blogger and has contributed to Al Jazeera. I'm not saying the thread OP is completely fictitious. I have no idea, as I payed little attention to the post. I don't read
fake news websites like The Grayzone as identified by Wikipedia.