The tweet was used included in news reports around the world but was actually created in Russia

An image of a Muslim woman on Westminster Bridge apparently ignoring terror attack victims was promoted by a Russian bot account, Twitter revealed.

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The account @SouthLoneStar shared the image, saying, ‘Muslim woman pays no mind to the terror attack, casually walks by a dying man while checking phone#PrayForLondon #Westminster #BanIslam.’

The account described itself as, ‘Proud TEXAN and AMERICAN patriot.’

The Tweet was included in news reports around the world – but Twitter revealed that the account was actually run from Russia, and has closed it down, according to Wired.


The supposed Twitter poster has been revealed as a Russian bot

The woman in the image made clear afterwards she was horrified by Khalid Masood’s attack – but the image was seized on by racists and the hard right.



The so-called ‘Texas Lone Star’ account also – mysteriously – posted content about Brexit, saying, ‘I hope UK after #BrexitVote will start to clean their land from muslim invasion!’

Jonathon Morgan, CEO of New Knowledge said, ‘The account occasionally wades into a European political discussion, which is not what I would expect a domestically-focused Conservative Texan to do under any circumstance.’

The account was identified as Russian in a Twitter list published by American Democrats.

It has since been closed down.

Other right-wing Twitter personalities have recently been unmasked as Russian fakes, such as ‘Jenna Abrams’, who was highly popular with the alt-right.

Congressional investigators confirmed that ‘Jenna Abrams’ – who had Tweeted on everything from Kim Kardashian to racial segregation – was actually run via a ‘troll farm’ in St Petersburg.

The account – which at one point had 70,000 followers – has now been suspended.

Jenna Abrams, Russia's Clown Troll Princess, Duped the Mainstream Media and the World – The Daily Beast https://t.co/6JFvS64V10 — Farhad Manjoo ??????‍?‍?‍??‍?‍???? (@fmanjoo) November 3, 2017

Meet Jenna Abrams. If you're a journalist on the web, you might have used her as in your article about everything from shaving your armpits to Rachel Dolezal. Turns out she never existed, except in the Russian troll factory.https://t.co/dReM0ELlOR pic.twitter.com/4iE0TkBOhv — Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) November 3, 2017

‘Abrams’ began Tweeting in 2014, starting out with comments on celebrities, but then producing highly controversial right-wing pieces, such as Medium blog on segregation.

‘Abrams’ wrote, ‘Humanity has gone full circle.. Never mind how many activists of any color died to get rid of segregation, and fought for inclusion, black people want it back. 100 percent free people made their choice, and their choice is segregation.’