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So just to be clear, there is no evidence that you have found of the image actually being circulated initially fraudulently. I do wish that there were a method of turning off the social media of those people like the fake Mario who make up crap like this. Or at least get Twitter to take responsibility. At this point I think they could gather a large volunteer corps to assist.
At face value Mario isn't the perp - he was the whistle-blower ...
Mario Fusco is the one who tweeted about the image on 28 December, advising folks the image was being circulated. The 27 December date overlaid on the image is apparently a Telegraph watermarked timestamp. The Telegraph message that Mario posted in his tweet therefore pre-dates Mario's tweet. If Mario's claim about the fake news message being distributed is itself the original hoax, he or someone with whom he conspired had to have created it the day before.
Because Telegraph is a private and relatively secure messaging medium there's no way to verify the 27 December message or its history unless you're part of the distribution network among whom it was distributed on 27 December or you obtain access to one such distributee's account.
I've not been able to locate any mention of this fake news item prior to 28 December, nor have I found anyone claiming it surfaced from any source other than Fusco's tweet.