A Photograph Showing a Man Whose Wife and 2 Children were Murdered

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A photograph was appeared on social media network on 10^th September 2016 showing a man with a baby at a funerary box containing the dead bodies of a young woman and her two small children. The description of the image indicated that “A mother and her two children died in a car accident, her son is with his father. Please don’t ignore to pray for his family.” We have found that published post on the Facebook was a clearly mocking example of like-farming. The published image has been considered an exercise designed to be shared and attracting stories to boost up user traffic on social media. Generally, a person who publishes an attractive or emotionally motivated post appeals users to involve with the published post.

In the above specific case, the published photograph was showing Denis Bukhantsov and his baby boy Mark gazing at his late wife Alina and their two children. A news article was published in the month of October 2012 and indicated that three family members of Bukhantsovs were murdered by their family member. Three bodies (Alina 23, Emmanuela 3 and Avenir 2) were together in a large open burial box in the front platform of the church. The husband of Alina now only has his 6-month old son Mark. Police had arrested brother of Burkhantsov, 19-year old Grigoriy and charged for murder. But, sharing and liking on Facebook using photographs and other materials of misleading posts don’t involve any type of direct risk for users.