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Girl Posting to Twitter From Aleppo Gains Sympathy, but Doubts Follow

Bana al-Abed, 7, has more than 220,000 followers on Twitter, where she chronicles the deprivations of a child in war-torn Syria. But she has also raised questions of authenticity. By Rick Gladstone, Megan Specia and Sydney Ember.

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    Re: Finding Bana – Proving the Existence of a 7-Year-Old Girl in Eastern Aleppo

    From the comments at the article:

    What I find utterly incomprehensible is why anybody with an ounce of human decency would go about trolling an account that might actually belong to a real mother of three. Surely you’d just shut up if you thought it might not be genuine, instead of potentially pouring abuse on a mother of three trying to keep her children alive in the middle of a war zone? You’d have to be a complete psychopath to do what they are doing.

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