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  • 2016-12-05 (xsd:date)
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  • Father Mourns Wife, Children Killed in Car Crash? (en)
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  • On 10 September 2016, a photograph of a man with a baby at a coffin containing the bodies of a young woman and two small children appeared on social media. The description said: The Facebook post was a clear and cynical example of like-farming, the practice of using shareable images and compelling stories to increase one's reach on social media. Typically, the person who posts a heartrending or otherwise emotionally stirring then implores users to interact with the photograph (and then switches around the page or photograph to make it appear as though a product or story is far more popular than it actually is). In this particular case, the photograph shows Denis Bukhantsov and his infant son Mark gazing at his late wife Alina and their two older children. According to an October 2012 news article, the three Bukhantsovs were murdered by a family member: Although liking and sharing Facebook posts of a misleading nature (or answering a plea to type amen) does not necessarily pose a direct risk to users, photographs used for such a purpose are nearly always stolen and misrepresented. (en)
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