{"id":81974,"date":"2020-12-08T15:16:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T09:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=81974"},"modified":"2020-12-08T20:48:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T15:18:36","slug":"photo-of-turkish-family-from-1979-viral-as-old-family-photo-of-biontech-co-founder-sahin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/photo-of-turkish-family-from-1979-viral-as-old-family-photo-of-biontech-co-founder-sahin\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of Turkish family from 1970s viral as old family photo of BioNtech co-founder \u015eahin"},"content":{"rendered":"

On December 6, World Health Organisation (WHO) chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan told Business Standard<\/a> that Pfizer and BioNtech are in the final stages of talks with the WHO to join the Covax alliance for coronavirus vaccines.\u00a0According to BBC<\/a>, BioNtech was founded by Turkish-descendant couple U\u011fur \u015eahin and \u00d6zlem T\u00fcrec and Professor Christoph Huber, an Austrian cancer expert.<\/p>\n

In the backdrop of this, Twitter user @richardsennett<\/a> (archived link<\/a>) shared an image of a family and wrote, “This is an immigrant family, newly arrived in Germany. The boy in the yellow shirt will go on to invent the COVID vaccine.” Sennett’s bio<\/a>\u00a0links to his website<\/a> which states he is a senior advisor at the United Nations (UN) and a visiting professor at MIT. His tweet was retweeted over 13,000 times and gained over 75,000 likes.<\/p>\n

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This is an immigrant family, newly arrived in Germany. The boy in the yellow shirt will go on to invent the COVID vaccine. pic.twitter.com\/F3kinfFzac<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Richard Sennett (@richardsennett) December 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This image has been shared by multiple users on Facebook<\/a> along with the above-mentioned text.<\/p>\n

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Fact-check<\/h4>\n

Using advanced search on Twitter<\/a>, we found that @richardsennett<\/a> was the first account that posted this image along with the text, “This is an immigrant family, newly arrived in Germany. The boy in the yellow shirt will go on to invent the COVID vaccine.”<\/p>\n

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Next, we performed a reverse image search on TinEye using InVid, an image verification browser plugin and found that it was published on the website of US-based Harvard Art Museums<\/a>.<\/p>\n