Facebook impersonator rips off a Florida free diver's online identity – ABC Action News

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — Free diver, Tiffany Marie Owen’s videos evoke fear and wonder in the hundreds of thousands who follow her underwater adventures on social media.Free divers aim for depth or navigate underwater tunnels without using breathing equipment. Owen says she hit a personal best this year, holding her breath while diving down shy of 100 feet. “I think I find most of my joy when I am able to hit depth,” she said.She may love the deep dives, but Owen’s cave adventures tend to go viral on social media. Over 211 million people viewed one of her tunnel swims on TikTok shortly after she posted it in March. She told ABC Action News. “And everything I posted after that was doing very well.”Owen says she unexpectedly made a couple of thousand dollars from her content. Still, after her posts turned profitable, an imposter created a fake Facebook account in her name, copying and sharing her page’s content. “I just felt like I was stolen from. I feel like I was cheated,” she said. “I feel like I had put so much work into these videos.”She fears the person behind the copycat page might make money off unsuspecting followers.
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