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On 30 January 2017 the tweet embedded above began circulating across social media, purportedly depicting a five-year-old Syrian girl placed in handcuffs by U.S. authorities at Dulles Airport. The version displayed above was likely the most popular Twitter version of the photograph, one that was purportedly sourced from a since-deleted tweet: Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas used the photograph to illustrate a diary entry about the barbarity of handcuffing toddlers, but he included little information about the accompanying photograph or the circumstances under which it was taken: The Facebook page American News X reported that the image depicted a five-year-old girl in handcuffs at Dulles, adding that the photograph was broadcast by ABC on an unspecified date. Eventually, Twitter user Ramez Snober (a Syrian whose location was set to Deported from Dulles in his proflie) stepped forward to explain the photograph and its origins. One day before the image began circulating, Snober issued six tweets about the events leading up to the photograph. According to those tweets, Snober and his family are Syrian nationals who were attempting to vacation in the United States on B2 visitor visas, not foreign-born U.S. residents or refugees. Their visas were invalidated while they were in transit, and upon their arrival in the U.S. (at Washington Dulles International Airport) they were detained and eventually denied entry by U.S. officials: Snober appeared surprised to discover photographs of his family's experience at Dulles Airport were circulating online: Snober stated that airport security agents were kind to him but expressed frustration about the sudden revocation of his family's travel visas: Most important, Snober clarified that the widely circulated image of his small daughter did not depict her in handcuffs, stating that his family's feelings and freedom, but not their hands, had been cuffed:
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