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Twitter is brutally mocking the fake Black Panther assault stories
All these tweets were instantly and easily debunked; reverse image lookup tools make it easy to trace how the pictures of the bleeding “victims” were taken from stock-footage sites, TV shows, or legitimate news stories about domestic assault or other real attacks. Twitter users begin rapidly vetting each new false assault claim, responding to the posters by revealing their image sources. Twitter has suspended some of the accounts posting false assault claims.
Twitter users have also fought back by satirizing the false assault claims. Some people have just parodied the original versions with comparatively subtle details:
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https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/19/17029742/black-panther-fake-assault-stories-twitter-response-mockery-humor
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