Vatican City vows to investigate Pope Francis’s Instagram controversy

Pope Francis’s Instagram ‘like’
controversy took another turn with Vatican City initiating an extensive probe in
the matter as confirmed by an official on Friday, reported AFP.

The investigation comes after the Pope’s official Instagram handle
“liked” a raunchy photograph of a Brazilian bikini model with her
bottom on display, as per AFP.

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The incident was reported by an eagle-eyed fan of the Brazilian
model, Natalia Garibotto, who responded to the screenshot on twitter.

“I am going to heaven,” the blonde model responded to the snapshot shared by the fan.

In the Instagram post that got a thumbs up by Pope, the model can be seen wearing
a white cropped top, suspenders and the smallest of tartan skirts for a naughty
school girl picture.

The reaction however, was
removed a day later by the Vatican’s social media team, which tweets or likes
on the pontiff’s behalf.

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Meanwhile it is been
speculated that someone in the social media team could have accidentally liked
the picture while logged in as Francis.

“The issue is currently
being investigated in close contact with Instagram,” a Vatican official
told AFP,

Francis has 7.4 million
Instagram followers, but does not follow any other profiles and does not appear
to have “liked” anything else.