Posted on 04/15/2020 7:17:16 AM PDT by Hojczyk
His photo has been widely shared on social media claiming he is a 13-year old who died of coronavirus in Great Britain.
A post on Facebook claimed he was a “schoolboy…with no health conditions” who became “UK’s youngest coronavirus victim.”
The post went on to read: “Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab, from Brixton, sadly died without any family members close by due to the highly infectious nature of Covid-19.”
But it isn’t true.
The same photograph of the same boy has circulated in news stories about deaths as far back as 2017.
According to AFP, the real boy was apparently named Conor Wilmont. His photo was first published on May 16, 2017 in an Irish Times report with the headline: “Conor Wilmot ‘found something on the internet that went wrong’.”
That report said that the boy died at his own hand during a “choking game.”
According to Politifact, a photo of the same boy was also used in a third news story on July 8, 2017. This time, the story claimed he was a 15-year-old boy from San Antonio, Texas who had hanged himself.
Uncorrected accounts still claiming the boy was the youngest coronavirus death in the UK– three years after he reportedly actually died– remain in publication.
(Excerpt) Read more at sharylattkisson.com ...
LOL...that ain't a British name.
Fake News.
They just lie half the time.
The other half of the time they accept someone else’s lies without making any effort to verify sources.
It is now, and has been for many years!
The Empire has come home to roost.
It is, unfortunately.
No worries. He’s back to life and scheduled to die o/a May 1 when the stay-at-home orders begin lifting. And PDJT is about to indicted for his murder this time.
The MSM hype every death of someone young to instill fear in the public. The government takes advantage of that fear to impose draconian restrictions on our freedom.
One of the greatest feats of political jiu jitsu ever. Trump has placed the governors in a box making them totally responsible for opening up their states with Trump stepping in if they screw up. Brilliant. Will end talk of states rights and Trump as king.
Most of these are scam fake advertisements with fake headlines that you see taking up space on many news websites. I guess you could call it fake news. They end up using and wasting the bandwidth that we internet customers pay providers.
I seem to remember a news article not long ago that said “Mohammed” is now one of the most popular boys’ names in the UK.
That’s never a good sign.
The boy is a “Schrödinger’s Cat”, existing in different media realities at the same time.
Maybe he’s part cat?
[LOL...that ain’t a British name. ]
Shuuush......The MSM doesn't get that yet...they are boxing themselves in and don't even realize it....the 10th amendment is there for a reason...
Her whole article hinges on one single Facebook post by a person she doesn't even identify:
"A post on Facebook claimed he was a “schoolboy…with no health conditions” who became “UK’s youngest coronavirus victim.”
The Politifact article she links to says that whoever posted that on their Facebook page took a real article about a boy who died of COVID and put it next to photo of a totally different boy who choked himself in Ireland years ago.
And that totally different boy's picture was also used incorrectly by a newspaper in Texas next to a story about a boy who hanged himself.
So if everything in her article is true, Sheryl has proven that:
1. A newspaper in Texas screwed up a couple years ago posting the wrong photo of a boy who died of choking/hanging.
2. Some idiot on Facebook used the same poor kid's photo next to the article about a COVID victim in England.
So Sheryly either believes that is news, in which case she's a nut, or she knows it's nothing but also knows people will click on an article that appears to be about fake news but is not.
Must be Casca’s son.
Read the article. "They" is one anonymous person in England with a Facebook account.
That may be true. But this isn't an example of that. The post underlying this article is by one single anonymous person on Facebook in the UK. The only one hyping it is the author of this article, who wants to get clicks with a headline that seems to suggest that she uncovered another media fake news story.
“Oh my God! They killed Kenny!”
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