By Mark Conlon
This was an article I first published back in December 2016.
I believe this article is even more relevant today than ever, and related to
activities involving some characters in the 9/11 research community.
A new ‘crisis actors’ misinformation has been circulating on
the internet, which claims that CNN used photographs of the same girl to
represent three different refugee crises. See below:
The social media post comprises of photographs of a little
girl being carried by three separate rescue workers began circulating 26th
December 2016 (https://archive.is/L8Gvo) on social media, along with text
asserting that CNN had been caught using images of the same girl to illustrate
three separate reports of refugee crises in different areas, with the girl
dressed in the very same outfit in each photograph.
The caption accuses CNN of falsifying their reporting with
phony images in order to exaggerate the human toll of violence in three
different (unidentified) areas.
With a simple reverse image search it revealed this to be more nonsense. The middle photograph in the three was easy to locate, with many of results returned via image searching: https://archive.is/slSLj
According to a report from NBC News, this photograph was
taken in the aftermath of the bombing of a funeral in Aleppo, Syria, in August
2016.
In a related search for the right-hand photograph revealed
that it indeed depicted the same girl, being carried by a rescuer after the
same 27 August 2016 bombing in Aleppo:
The left-hand photograph was cropped for the “same refugee
girl” meme, but it was also a widely published photograph taken immediately
after the August 2016 Aleppo funeral bombing. The original photograph depicted
a rescuer carrying the girl along with several other children at the site of
the attack:
A separate photograph not included above captured the same girl sitting in the back of a van after the Aleppo funeral bombing:
So, rather than presenting three images of the same girl (in
the same clothing) supposedly being carried by rescuers after three different
“refugee crises” in separate times and places, the reality is it captures one
girl being passed around from one rescuer, caretaker, or family member to
another in the same disaster zone as part of humanitarian efforts undertaken
after the same single bombing event in Syria that left 16 people dead. There is
no evidence that CNN ever used any of these photographs to represent anything
other than that one event.
My final thoughts
There seems to be a concerted effort to promote the “crisis actors” conspiracy scenario involving different events of late, where it seems deliberate misinformation is being propagated to get truth-seekers recirculating misinformation. Is this being done to discredit truth-seekers who are getting on board with “crisis actor” conspiracy theory? This seems very reminiscent of Simon Shack’s Vic-Sims, which he has promoted at his Clues Forum. I would urge people to really check what they are being told, and verify as much as possible.
Thanks for reading & caring!
