Facebook posts about injured two-year-old found get hundreds of shares. It’s fake.

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Facebook posts about injured two-year-old found get hundreds of shares. It’s fake.
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PETALING JAYA: Zayn Rayyan Abdul Matiin's grandparents were arrested as the murder investigation throws yet another twist.

New York may have passed new laws making social media less addictive for kids, but real change is still a ways offFacebook groups are overflowing with pictures of a two-year-old child with cuts all over his face, and the comments are pleading for help because police are unsure of the boy's identity, but turns out the posts are fake. — Image by freepik

The posts sometimes get hundreds of shares. And some legitimate Facebook users, scared for the boy, share the photos on their own accounts. But all the original Facebook posts have their comments turned off. And police are warning users that it’s a scam. The photo actually comes from a 2014 news story when a two-year-old boy in Georgia was injured from a dog attack, according to WSB.

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