Stop
Tweeting That 'Bring Back Our
Girls' Photo — She's **t Nigerian
A woman whose face has become sy**nymous with the "Bring
Back Our Girls" campaign online is **t Nigerian, has **t been abducted and did **t give permission to have her photograph associated with the cause.
The viral image, which depicts a young woman named Jenabu Balde staring out from behind her hand, is accompanied by text
That reads #BringBackOurGirls. It has been tweeted and retweeted hundreds of thousands of times since the early days of the campaign in late April, and has been appropriated for posters and signs
That have been displayed at rallies around the world
The campaign is focused on a group of
Nigerian girls who have been missing since April 15, when a group of Islamic militants k**wn as Boko Haram stormed a high school and took hundreds of girls captive. Some escaped, but 274 remain missing
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