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  • 2015-12-14 (xsd:date)
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  • Is ISIS Killing Babies with Down Syndrome? (en)
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  • On 14 December 2015 Fox News published an article titled ISIS killing babies with Down syndrome, activists claim. The site, noting that [source] information and [a] video have not been confirmed, reported: Britain's Daily Mail published a 14 December 2015 article titled How much more depraved can ISIS get? Group's Sharia judges order children with Down's syndrome and other disabilities to be killed in chilling echo of the Nazis: That article maintained: In the absence of credible information, the site turned to internet commenters to flesh out its reporting: Although Daily Mail used apparently and it is claimed to buttress its reporting, the outlet didn't emphasize that the information was gleaned from a single blogger's Facebook post. Fox News and multiple concurrent reports cited a group called Mosul Eye as the source for the unverified claims. The original 13 December 2015 post and video (embedded below) claimed: Mosul Eye appeared to be the sole source of the claims that ISIS militants killed 38 disabled children, and the appended video simply depicted two children, neither of whom appeared to be killed or harmed for the duration of the footage. Additionally, neither child depicted in the video appeared to have Down syndrome. While the claim that ISIS was killing disabled children and children with Down syndrome appeared in multiple international news reports, no one was able to substantiate the rumors. Iterations commonly reported that 38 children had thus far been killed by lethal injection or suffocation, but no information about the dozens of children purportedly killed was included in any report. Moreover, an attached video simply depicted two children (one of whom appeared to be disabled, and was using a wheelchair), neither of whom was harmed or killed in the clip. [article-meta] (en)
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