Sasha Grey was enraged by the use of her photo in an apparent fake news post related to the armed conflict in East Ukraine between Ukraine's government forces and pro-Russian separatists.
A photo of Grey was used in a post on Russian social network VKontakte, the local equivalent of Facebook, to accompany a supposed sob story that went viral.
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The story claimed that a nurse named Sasha Serova, who was with pro-Russian separatists in East Ukraine, was captured by Ukrainian military forces, who then filmed themselves "humiliating" her before chopping her body up with an ax. Some observers quickly noted that Serova is Russian for "Grey," and that no video of the alleged atrocity was presented.
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