Construction of the free product of $C^*$-algebras

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I have two questions :

  1. $\mathcal{F}$ is an algebra, how to conclude that $\pi: \mathcal{F} \to B(H_{\pi})$ is a $*$-homomorphism?

2.Why is $j$ injective?