{"id":1494984,"date":"2022-05-27T15:44:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T19:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1494984"},"modified":"2022-05-27T15:44:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T19:44:44","slug":"fact-check-did-abc-news-edit-an-image-of-the-uvalde-school-shooter-to-make-him-look-more-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-abc-news-edit-an-image-of-the-uvalde-school-shooter-to-make-him-look-more-white\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did ABC News Edit An Image Of The Uvalde School Shooter To \u2018Make Him Look More White\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-abc-news-edit-an-image-of-the-uvalde-school-shooter-to-make-him-look-more-white%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1494984&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><span>A post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=2126274054204013&#038;set=a.113736262124479\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a><\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>claims ABC News edited a picture of the suspected Uvalde school shooter Salvador Ramos to \u201cmake him look more white.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence that ABC News used an altered image of the shooter. A spokesperson for the news outlet confirmed the claim is false.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A gunman shot and killed 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/uvalde-school-shooting-politics-texas-shootings-56a4d01fb1cda19947db89fcb6bd85fd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a>. The suspected shooter, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, was shot and killed by law enforcement during the incident, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>An image shared on Facebook claims ABC News shared an altered version of the shooter to \u201cmake him look more white.\u201d The image includes two mug shot-style photos of Ramos side-by-side, one that appears to show the alleged shooter with lightened skin and altered facial features. <span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/05\/25\/fact-check-trans-flag-uvalde-school-shooting-suspect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: No, This Image Does Not Show The Uvalde School Shooter Posing With A Transgender Flag)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The claim is inaccurate. ABC News <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\/status\/1529209852995723266\"><span>tweeted<\/span><\/a><span> a news report Tuesday night that included the unedited mug shot of Ramos. The altered version of the photo, in which Ramos appears to have lighter skin, could not be found on the outlet\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/search?searchtext=salvador%2520ramos%2520mug%2520shot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>ABC News confirmed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2022\/may\/25\/tweets\/abc-news-didnt-use-altered-photo-uvalde-school-sho\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PolitiFact<\/a> that it did not use any photoshopped image of the shooter in its coverage of the attack in Uvalde.<\/p>\n<p>Several false claims about the shooting have spread on the internet in the wake of the attack. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/05\/25\/fact-check-trans-flag-uvalde-school-shooting-suspect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check Your Fact<\/a> recently debunked a viral post that claimed to show Ramos wearing a skirt and posing with a trans flag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post shared on Facebook\u00a0claims ABC News edited a picture of the suspected Uvalde school shooter Salvador Ramos to \u201cmake him look more white.\u201dVerdict: False\u00a0 There is no evidence that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":613,"featured_media":1495038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1495038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}