After news emerged that a photograph of Anastasia Yankova was circulating as part of a fake news campaign targeting Black Lives Matter protests, the Russian MMA fighter is imploring people not to ‘trust everything you see’ on the internet.
The aforementioned post, which appeared on the Australian Meme Cult — a Facebook group with more than 22,000 members — showed a cropped version of a woman’s bruised face, along with a caption claiming that the person was “beaten and raped” at a BLM protest. The photo attached to the post was actually a picture of Yankova following her bout at Bellator 161 in September 2016.