Did you fall for these Fake News stories on the Manchester Bombing?

MANCHESTER, England (WDEF) – Breaking news always generates false leads and plain old fashioned mistakes.

But the Manchester Bombing has also seen its fair share of out and out lies.

Mostly, to score retweets during the breaking cycle.

Buzz Feed has identified these Fake News posts so far.

We’ve seen lots of tweets and posts in the last 24 hours of people looking for missing friends and children.

And, unfortunately, many are fakes.

Take a look at one such page of faces.

Buzz Feed has confirmed that several are just photos snagged from online sites that would touch your heart and tempt you to retweet.

In fact, a photographer in Australia was shocked to find her daughter (alive and well down under) was listed as missing in Manchester.

One of the most touching of these troll tweets was the photo of a Downs syndrome child allegedly missing in Manchester.

This is all that’s left after the twitter account was shut down.

The perpetrator pulled the photo from a where the little boy served as a model for clothing created for Downs kids.

On the fake news front, there was no gunman outside a Manchester hospital after the bombing… no group of unaccompanied children from the concert at the Holiday Inn… the ISIS graffiti painted at a mosque happened before the bombing, not afterward… and that blood-smeared Ariana Grande photo was really grabbed from the set of Scream Teens a few years back.

Get the details on each at Buzz Feed.

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