White House Posts, Then Deletes, Image Falsely Accusing Man of Sex Crimes
The White House posted a photo on X of an immigrant, linking him to crimes he has not been accused of.
The White House falsely labeled a man as having committed child sex crimes in one of several erroneous graphics posted Jan. 26 on its X account about immigrants detained in Minnesota.
The thread of images posted to the White House’s X account was deleted after NOTUS asked about the apparent errors. The White House’s X account has 3.6 million followers — prior to deletion, the post had been viewed at least 257,000 times. The graphics were shared by other X users and at least two news organizations. And although a White House official acknowledged the error, they said they will continue to post about individual arrests.
“In the process of highlighting the dangerous criminal illegal aliens arrested by law enforcement, two images of criminal illegal aliens were mistakenly swapped,” a White House official said. “The error has been corrected, and the Administration will continue publicizing the dangerous criminal illegal aliens being removed from our streets.”
https://www.notus.org/whitehouse/white-house-x-images-detained-migrants-crimes