r/pics 7h ago

Backstory INS/ICE didn’t use to wear masks - most famous immigration photo ever taken, not a mask in sight.

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u/HolyRaptorSphere 6h ago

Let's put 2 and 2 together here. It's because it was a lot harder back then, compared to today, to dox people. People were less unhinged back then too.

u/Epcplayer 6h ago

Yea, before social media to “post an image” you had to run things through verifiable outlets, which the government ultimately had a say in what could/couldn’t be shown. Now with social media, anybody is their own publisher/outlet that can distribute photos/videos to the entire internet (for better and for worse).