Republican Senator Marco Rubio, posting a condolence tweet over the death of civil rights leader John Lewis and praising him as an "historic and American hero", supplied the wrong photo - the picture he tweeted showed the former with another civil rights advocate, Elijah Cummings, not the late John Lewis.
The post caused waves on Twitter, with netizens denouncing the tweet as "purposefully disrespectful". Rubio deleted the tweet and posted another with a correct photo, and admitted his mistake without apology.
Users mocked Rubio, bombing his thread with pictures of other famous black people, joking that "this is John Lewis".
Some deliberately "mistook" Rubio himself for other people.
Others labeled Rubio a "total fraud", condemning him for failing to apologize for his mistake.
US Democratic Representative John Lewis died on 17 July due to cancer, and flags were ordered to be lowered in honor of the prominent civil rights advocate. Lewis is known to have been integral to the success of the 1963 Washington March for Jobs and Freedom, a member of the Big Six group, alongside Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young. The march's purpose was and remains to ensure and protect equal civil and economic rights for African Americans.