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Around the middle of Bad Bunny’s live NFL Super Bowl halftime performance, the Puerto Rican singer is seen handing a Grammy Award to a young Latino boy. 

As he kneels down and rubs the boy’s head, he says: “Cree siempre en ti” (“always believe in yourself”). Almost immediately, rumors began spreading like wildfire on social media: the boy was none other than Liam Conejo Ramos, an immigrant who has made headlines in recent weeks.

While the concert was rife with symbolism and statement — this happens to not be true. A publicist for Bad Bunny told NPR Music that the little boy on stage was not Liam Conejo Ramos. A representative for the Conejo Ramos family also confirmed to Minnesota Public Radio that it was not the young boy.

That wasn’t Liam Conejo Ramos in Bad Bunny’s halftime show

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A publicist for Bad Bunny confirmed to NPR that the little boy in a blue bunny hat detained by ICE in Minneapolis last month did not participate in the Super Bowl halftime show.

<a   href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6FuWd4wNd8" class="Link"  target="_blank"   >Screenshot by NPR</a>/<a   href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6FuWd4wNd8" class="Link"  target="_blank"   >NFL via YouTube</a>

No, that wasn’t Liam Conejo Ramos in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show

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