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A series of Reuters photographs of a women's volleyball game at the 2016 Olympic Games showed Egypt's Doaa Elghobashy participating in a hijab against Germany's Kira Walkenhorst on the Copacabana Beach in Brazil. Soon after that, a photo purporting to be from Iranian news agency Tasnim News appeared on Twitter, claiming that Iran had censored the photograph of the bikini-clad player: The photograph went viral before someone pointed out that the originating Twitter account wasn't from Tasnim News, but from a parody account named Tansim News, with the positions of the n and the s switched in the word (the Twitter account bore that name, but has now been switched to @SexyPundit). Buzzfeed contacted the Twitter user behind the parody, who asked not to be identified: The satirical photograph received some criticism:
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