Canadian PM Trudeau Slams Meta for Shuttering News Access During ‘Apocalyptic’ Wildfires
“In a larger picture that’s bad for democracy,” the prime minister said.
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Did Flooding in Australia Cause a Quad Bike to Get Stuck on a Power Line?
A lighthearted photo is real — and so is the “rain bomb” that pounded the country in early 2022.
Does This Photo Show Train Riders Ignoring a Woman Needing a Seat?
The online anger over a 2019 story continued long after its apparent debunking.
‘More People Have Died of Suicide This Year Than Corona’
A post on TheDonald.win claimed that more people had “died of suicide” in 2020 than of COVID-19.
Australian Prime Minister’s Bushfire Aid Ad Criticized Amid Flood of Disinformation
Far-right media outlets and online trolls are trying to downplay climate change’s role in widespread destruction across the country.
Aboriginal Flag on the Right, Australia Burning on the Left
Several versions of a comparison between the Australian Aboriginal flag and a photograph of Australia’s night sky while bushfires raged spread on social media in December 2019 and January 2020.
‘I Did Not Take This Photo and I Don’t Know Who Did’ Australian Community Firefighters Image
In the wake of deadly and devastating fires in Australia in December 2019 and January 2020, a miscaptioned photograph showing firefighters from California circulated with prayer requests.
Are Koalas ‘Functionally Extinct’ as of November 2019?
An article circulated on social media with the claim that koalas had gone “functionally extinct” after wildfires in Australia destroyed most of their natural habitat.
Does the Australian ‘Gympie-Gympie’ Drive People to Suicide?
Touching the plant’s hairs probably won’t kill you — but it could potentially cause months of excruciating pain.
Did Australia Fire Its Entire Legislature After a 1975 Government Shutdown?
In early February 2019, a Facebook user shared the meme below, which claims that after Australia went through a government shutdown in 1975 its citizens kicked out the entire legislature and started over: Text overlaid on a photograph of what looked like the inside of a legislative building stated: In 1975 Australia had a government …
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