Down the memory hole
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A left-wing doofus at the United Nations did an analysis of how many children are “in detention” in countries around the world, and concluded that the U.S. has more than anyone else–presumably as a result of the flood of illegal immigrants at our Southern border. Pretty much every news organization in the world jumped on the story: the Associated Press, Reuters, NBC News, NPR, the Huffington Post, all the usual suspects.
But then a funny thing happened. The U.N. guy explained that his number for children detained in the U.S. was not current, but dated from 2015. That is, during the Obama administration. So news organizations were faced with a dilemma. What to do? As Ed Driscoll notes, some, like AFP and Reuters, simply deleted their articles.
No mention who was president in 2015, and Reuters et al didn’t print a retraction, they just erased it.
UPDATE: This Tweet from the DNC has also disappeared; apparently detaining 100,000 children of illegal immigrants isn’t disgusting after all, if Obama did it.
