Other images displayed by Trump during meeting with South African president Cyril Ramaphosa were false or misleading

The evidence of supposed mass killings of white South Africans presented by Donald Trump in a tense White House meeting on Wednesday were in some cases images from the Democratic Republic of Congo, while footage shown during the meeting was falsely portrayed as depicting “burial sites”.

“These are all white farmers that are being buried,” said Trump, holding up a print-out of an article accompanied by a picture during the contentious Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

The picture accompanying the article was in fact a screengrab of a video published by Reuters on 3 February and subsequently verified by the news agency’s fact check team, showing humanitarian workers lifting body bags in the Congolese city of Goma. The image was pulled from Reuters footage shot after deadly battles with Rwanda-backed M23 rebels.

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    13 hours ago

    It is a legitimate question you’re trying to label a conspiracy theory as if it was so extremely unlikely that the stack of paper trump held was nothing but all made up.

    Labelling anything as “JAQ” is literally a supression tactic used by extremists and astroturfing corporations, by the way.

    Imagine a place on the internet where at least one person asks “wait, what about this then?” and not being told “shut up. Don’t ask questions, just consume the media the way we want you to.”

    Lemmy is not supposed to be a brainrot meme cave.