Those viral photos of caged migrant children at an ICE detention facility were claimed by CNN's Hadas Gold as being recent photos. The editor-in-chief of NYT Magazine implied it. The photos were taken in 2014.

Here is one of the photos that was going around: https://imgur.com/a/BRlkCrn

CNN's Hadas Gold's retraction tweet:

Deleted previous tweet because gave impression of recent photos (they’re from 2014) https://twitter.com/Hadas_Gold/status/1000809764576784384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Her retraction tweet is also misleading. She didn't "give the impression." She outright claimed this was a recent photo. Her original tweet said:

"First photos of separated migrant children at holding facility." https://imgur.com/a/BYGD56A

Jake Silverstein's correction tweet:

Correction: this link, which was going around this morning, is from 2014. Still disturbing, of course, but only indirectly related to current situation. My bad (and a good reminder not to RT things while distracted w family on the weekend). https://twitter.com/jakesilverstein/status/1000837340187774976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

His original tweet:

All of these photos are disturbing, but the first two are especially awful. http://archive.is/t8FZO

Edit:

Shawn King, a columnist at The Intercept, has yet to correct his claim.

I saw this photo floating around and didn’t know if it was real. It is. Children of immigrants are being held in cages, like dogs, at ICE detention centers, sleeping on the floor. It’s an abomination. https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/1000791238864404480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Another one from Lauren Wolfe. Her Twitter bio says "Columnist @ForeignPolicy. NYT, Atlantic, Guardian, etc. Former senior editor CPJ"

Children are being housed by the U.S. government in cages http://archive.is/tKrFq

T. Christian Miller, Senior investigative reporter at ProPublica:

Showing immigrant children being held in what's basically a kennel. https://twitter.com/txtianmiller/status/1000800324905390080

Edit 2:

This post is to show an example of carelessness in the media. These examples perfectly illustrate how regardless of which outlet you belong to, whether it be The Intercept (which I hold in high regard), or CNN, The Atlantic, or any others, journalists are still prone to making careless mistakes. We, the public, depend on these journalists to verify information before they send it off to us to be believed. In this case, as in many others, they failed to do basic research and failed to properly convey accuracy to the public. This is not an issue with just the media on the left or right. All journalists, regardless of political party, are human, and occasionally make mistakes. We must pressure them to do basic fact checking every single time before sending off the information. That is, after all, what they're paid to do.

More examples like this, and this is not an exhaustive list by any means.