That tweet trolling a Muslim woman during the Westminster attack was actually by a Russian bot

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: 

Image: screengrab/twitter/@southlonestar

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

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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