A popular Instagram account that routinely aggregates news from local publications without attribution used a photo of a Miami Herald reporter in a post about a Miami Gardens shooting, insinuating that she was somehow involved in the incident.
On Wednesday morning, @alwaysinflorida shared a post with its 218,000 followers about a 25-year-old woman’s arrest after she allegedly tried to kill another woman over a messy love triangle. In the top left corner of the post, the account included a photo of Grethel Aguila, the Miami Herald crime and court reporter who first covered the incident on Monday, September 22. The account seemingly ripped Aguila’s headshot from her bio at the end of the article.
Though the Instagram post did not name Aguila, it wrongly implied that the journalist was either the perpetrator or the victim in this case. The post remained on Instagram for at least an hour…