Another image shows a teenager with a bloodied face with the caption “i went to see #BlackPanther with my gf and a black teenager shouted ‘u at the wrong theater’ and smashed a bottle on her face.”
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The image in fact shows a Swedish 19-year-old woman who was attacked by a man in a Malmo nightclub in January after refusing his advances.
Vox reported that other troll accounts of fake attacks used images shared by a woman who was speaking out against domestic abuse in 2016, a screenshot of actor Steve Yun covered in fake gore in The Walking Dead, and an image from a Serbian 2013 video warning of domestic abuse.
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