Makassar: It was another laid-back evening of social media browsing on Jan 6 for 16-year-old Nabila Az-Zahra, a high school student in Gowa regency, South Sulawesi – at least until she started receiving a slew of strange comments and direct messages (DMs) from fellow Twitter users.
They were all pointing her to a thread of tweets written by another user whose profile picture appeared to have Nabila’s likeness.
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