Left-wing news outlet Mashable ran a “whitened up” image of Iranian-Turk YouTube shooter Nasim Aghdam as the header to their article on Tuesday’s shooting in San Bruno.

(Article by Chris Menahan republished from InformationLiberation.com)

The image shows Aghdam with green eyes and lightened up skin:

Though the YouTube shooter was initially described as a “white female wearing a headscarf,” it turned out she was a 39-year-old Iranian-Turk immigrant who can barely speak English.

Aghdam is a self-described “Persian Azeri female vegan bodybuilder” and a radical animal rights activist who campaigned for PETA.

While the image they ran is allegedly from Aghdam’s Instagram, there’s literally hundreds of images of her they could have chose from.

A search of Google News shows not one single other outlet chose to run with this photoshopped picture.

Twitter users slammed Mashable for running with the image:

After much criticism, Mashable added a note to the bottom of their article reading: “Note, the header image used was an image uploaded by Aghdam to her Instagram account. It was not edited by Mashable.”

Despite knowing the image is a photoshopped fake, they elected not to change it.

UPDATE: Mashable finally removed the image from their website and their Twitter on Wednesday and apologized “for any confusion caused.”

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