Multiple outlets deleted entire stories Tuesday after falsely reporting the number of children in migrant-related U.S. custody. Outlets
including Reuters, Agence France-Presse (AFP), NPR and Aljazeera jumped
on a report from the United Nations, writing Monday that the country
has the world’s highest rate of detained children. The outlets reported
that there are currently more than
100,000 children in immigration-related custody, which violates international law. A day later, Reuters and AFP deleted their stories after the U.N. clarified the numbers were from 2015, when former
President Barack Obama
was in office. AFP did not immediately respond to a request for comment
on why it no longer felt the numbers were newsworthy after being
informed they were
from 2015. “Reuters
decided to withdraw its story after the United Nations issued a
statement on November 19 saying the number of children in detention was
not current but was for the year 2015,” a Reuters spokesperson told the
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