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As the Marvel Entertainment film Black Panther opened in the U.S. in February 2018, some social media users attempted to put a damper on the occasion by posting fake accounts of anti-white attacks only to be foiled by other users' photo-sleuthing skills. One photo posted on Twitter reportedly generated around 400 retweets before being debunked. The image showed a towel soaked in blood over a sink alongside the caption: But other users quickly noted that the picture was actually posted on the photo-sharing platform Flickr in 2009. Twitter suspended the account behind that fake post, as well as the one that attempted to pass off a picture of a 19-year-old Swedish woman's bloodied face. She was actually attacked at a bar in Malmo, despite false claims the photo was taken after an assault connected to the film, which features a nearly all-black cast: Another user attempted to pass himself off as 23-year-old Michael Voller, who was hit in the face in London in May 2017 in an attack that was reportedly precipitated by anger over the results of a FA Cup soccer semifinal match: There is no indication that these posts are coordinated, but another social media user passing themselves off as the victim of an assault — this one using a photo taken from a British makeup artist's porfolio — showed off their work on a message board in the web site 4chan: And yet another claimed in a Twitter post that his older brother Kenan suffered a ruptured eardrum after an attack: But that account was also debunked by users who showed that the picture attached was actually taken from a story about an actual assault in Dallas, Texas. Despite these types of smear attempts, reports estimated that Black Panther was on track to earn between $200 million and $205 million at the box office for its opening weekend.
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