Johnson refuses to look at picture of boy forced to sleep on hospital floor

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1. Tory supporters have been flooding Twitter and Facebook with a claim the photo was faked.

This is almost entirely based on a single post from Facebook which was copied in whole or part, sometimes as an image, sometimes as text, onto just about any thread where the issue was being discussed, often seeming as if the poster had the direct information:

Fake claim about hospital boy 'came from hacked account'

Woman whose name was on the post denies claiming photo of four-year-old had been staged

A false online story that the photograph of an ill boy lying on the floor of Leeds General infirmary was staged came from a hacked account, according to the medical secretary whose name was attached to the initial post.

The woman, whose name the Guardian is withholding because she says she has received death threats since the post was made, denied posting the allegation that four-year-old Jack Willment-Barr’s mother placed him on the floor specifically to take the picture, which was on the front page of Monday’s Daily Mirror.

“I was hacked. I am not a nurse and I certainly don’t know anyone in Leeds,” the woman told the Guardian. “I’ve had to delete everything as I have had death threats to myself and my children.”

She said she had tried to report the hack of her Facebook account to Action Fraud.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/dec/10/woman-says-account-hacked-to-post-fake-story-about-hospital-boy