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  • 2022-05-25 (xsd:date)
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  • ABC News didn’t use an altered photo of the Uvalde school shooter to make him look more Caucasian (en)
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  • When law enforcement officials identified the Uvalde, Texas, school shooter as an 18-year-old man named Salvador Ramos, they also released his photo. A social media claim falsely suggested that ABC News and its show Good Morning America altered that photo. ABC News altered Salvador Ramos’s photo to appear more Caucasian 😡 Real photo of the Uvalde Texas shooter (right) vs photo posted by @abcnews @GMA (left), one tweet falsely stated. Posts touting the claim use side-by-side images of a legitimate, unaltered photo of Ramos next to what users say was a photo ABC News published that shows him with lighter skin and different features. (Screenshot from Facebook) ABC News confirmed to PolitiFact that it did not publish any manipulated images of Ramos on any of its programs. Indeed, we could not find any instance of the edited photo being used in any tweets or reports by ABC News or Good Morning America. Rather, it appears the altered image in this post was pasted over a screenshot of an authentic May 24 tweet from ABC News about the shooting. . @ABC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: Image released of alleged gunman in horrific elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The suspect, an 18-year-old local high school student, is dead, according to the governor. https://t.co/VCKVKoRdub pic.twitter.com/VzYtDXHgDo — ABC News (@ABC) May 24, 2022 Our ruling Tweets claim that ABC News and its program, Good Morning America, manipulated the image of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooter to make him appear more Caucasian. This is wrong. ABC News denied the claim and there is no evidence that the news organization published any altered images of the gunman. We rate these posts False. RELATED: Fact-checking misinformation about the Uvalde, Texas school shooter RELATED: Gunman in Texas school shooting was not an immigrant illegally in the country (en)
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