Doctors Are Baffled
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Screen grabs suck. Sauce is always appreciated
The DailyMail one is real but the other ones show no pictures of the children.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8164787/14-year-old-boy-Portugals-youngest-coronavirus-victim-Ovar-near-Porto.html
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1262741/Belgium-coronavirus-12-year-old-girl-death-youngest-victim-europe.
https://thearabweekly.com/muslim-schoolboy-becomes-youngest-uk-coronavirus-victim
Thanks for actually looking into it
Two possibilities:
Someone used their browser devtools to add the image to the sites that didn't have an image. Devtools can also simulate running on a mobile phone.
The sites actually used the image, but removed it when they saw it was memed.
Based on what I've seen from the media, I'm leaning towards #2. kek
That said, we need to keep browser devtools in mind as there is a lot you can do with it. I can modify tweets in browser and even add a blue check to an account that doesn't have one. Haven't tried replacing an image, but I don't think it would be hard to do. No photoshopping required. Screenshot looks completely authentic.
TLDR: Sauce is important. Screenshots don't mean shit.
Did some more digging..
The photo is still there on the Express story.. just have to scroll down a bit.
Both Daily Fail and Express stories list the boy as Portuguese with the same name. Checked the internet archive for both and nothing seems to have been changed.
I also checked the Arab Weekly story which was archived twice: once in 2020, once in 2021. There was no photo of the boy in the original story, so either someone added it, or the Archive can be manipulated.
The Dailymail article is about the Portuguese schoolboy Vitor Godinho.
The Express article references Portuguese schoolboy Vitor Godinho and included an image at the bottom of the article.
The earliest cached version of the Arab Weekly page in the wayback machine makes no reference to the Portuguese schoolboy and included no image.
It seems that someone is attempting to dupe me!