Salman Abedi: Instagram models and beauty bloggers have been falsely named as Manchester bomber's sister
Janice Joostama and Maya Ahmad have both millions of followers on the social media platform
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Your support makes all the difference.Famous Instagram models and beauty bloggers have been falsely linked to Manchester attack after they were wrongly identified as bomber Salman Abedi’s sister.
Pictures of fashion model and blogger Janice Joostema and Lebanese makeup artist Maya Ahmad have been published by a number of Italian newspapers - wrongly captioned at the attacker’s sister Jomana Abedi.
Italian news and beauty website Milleunadonna reported that various newspapers including La Repubblica and La Stampa published their images in online picture galleries, before realising the pictures had nothing to do with Ms Abedi.
Janice Joostama, who is of Fijian and Dutch descent, has 1.2 million followers on the Instagram social media platform and Maya Ahmad has more than one million.
On Ms Abedi’s Facebook profile, which suggests she is from Tripoli but lives in Manchester, there are pictures of the beauty bloggers and models, which have been used as profile images.
According to the Australian website news.com, pictures of Dalal Al-Doub, a prominent beauty and fashion blogger in the Middle-East, were also being circulated with the wrong information.
Fake images of supposedly missing friends have also been widely shared on social media following the horrific Manchester attack.
Pictures of people, who had nothing to do with the attack and were not at the concert were shared on the internet.
An Australian mother repeatedly took to social media asking people to stop sharing her daughter’s picture, who is alive and safe in Australia.
In a post on Facebook, Rachel Devine said she woke up from a nap to a hosts of messages asking if her daughter Gemma was safe.
“Apparently someone used a photo of Gemma in a fake profile on Twitter claiming she was a friend lost in the tragedy in Manchester," she wrote. "I'll never understand the bizarre thing of pretending to be someone else online. Nor the tragedy at the concert. My thoughts go out to those parents and since a news agency contacted me, I hope this clears it up and the 'news' takes her photo down."
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