# Retroactive pictures in posts

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**Created:** [June 22, 2020, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retroactive-pictures-in-posts/911148 "2020-06-22T08:19:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retroactive-pictures-in-posts/911148/1 "2020-06-22T08:19:52Z")

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Something I just noticed in an Elections forum thread: pictures.

In posts from the old board, there were quotes from a media site and this new board went out to that site and grabbed what I assume (and certainly looked like) a picture from that article. Put it in a box with the picture on the left and the article title and quote to its right. I only saw two such and they were both from CNN. Other quotes from Fox News, for example, didn’t get this treatment. Possibly because the non-CNN quotes were more than a paragraph, or just not in a form the Discorse software could understand. Or maybe CNN is special for some reason.

I don’t have a link to that thread (not even sure how to get a link to a specific post), but the topic was about John Bolton’s book.

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**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retroactive-pictures-in-posts/911148/2 "2020-06-22T08:37:21Z")

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OK, it’s not just CNN that’s special. I just saw the same thing in [this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fill-me-in-on-mrs-butterworths-syrup/855892) from GQ and most of them were from Wikipedia.

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**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retroactive-pictures-in-posts/911148/3 "2020-06-22T18:07:04Z")

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That is an “unfurled” url. If you paste in a whole url outside url tags, just naked, it fetches a page preview and puts that in for you. For example,  
[https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/2645529/?utm\_source=embed](https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/2645529/?utm_source=embed)