Russian Troll – Fusion Nepal

On the day of the Westminster attack that left 6 dead, a Twitter troll shared an image of a Muslim woman on the phone, wrongly claiming she was ignoring the victims on the bridge:

Both the photographer and the woman in the image debunked @SouthLoneStar’s account of the scene, saying it was taken out of context:

Please circulate: Statement from the Muslim woman photographed on Westminster Bridge during #WestminsterAttack (via @TellMamaUK) pic.twitter.com/2sHFb56lEu

— TellMAMAUK (@TellMamaUK) March 24, 2017

Nonetheless, the tweet got over 1,800 likes and 1,600 retweets, picked up by alt-right personalities and white nationalists like Richard Spencer: Read more…

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Remember Jenna Abrams? The fake Twitter account that fooled pretty much every news outlet in America (including Mashable) on behalf of the Internet Research Agency, a Russian propaganda farm?

Well, despite being banned from Twitter, Jenna Abrams lives in a blog — you guessed it, it’s https://jennabrams.wordpress.com. The latest entry attempts to drag us in a dizzying hellscape of self-doubt, making us question the basic fabric of our reality.

“My fellow Americans! Yes it’s me, your beloved Jenna Abrams, yeah, The Jenna Abrams. Did you miss me? I know. I missed you too,” she said in the first line of her post, ironically (?) entitled “Our Democracy Has Been Hacked”. Read more…

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