A video of people kneeling in the street has been shared with false claims it shows Polish people paying tribute to Henry Nowak. This isn’t correct. The clip actually shows a Corpus Christi procession in the country. fullfact.org/crime/video-cor…

Given recent news, it is perhaps worth posting this link. The usual suspects are claiming that Eriksen’s original heart attack was due to the vaccine. There is something depressingly ghoulish about their behaviour. sports.yahoo.com/soccer-erik…

Never thought I’d say this, but The Sheep Detectives is surprisingly good. Far more to it than you’d expect from a movie about sheep solving a murder mystery.

Genuine question. Why do so many “taking to camera” videos on here have the subject sat in their car? It seems to be the thing they do but makes no sense. Is it that they don’t have a house? Their homes are full of rubbish/clutter? Why?

If someone on the internet told me to drink raw milk, avoid vaccines and then tried to sell me medicine meant for farm animals I would legitimately think they were trying to kill me.

No two 'birds' are absolutely identical hence there is no actual gold standard for what a 'bird' should look like, just a grouping of morphological features that if satisfied should falsify their physical existence. #birdsarentreal

The Station Nightclub fire happened in 2003. No smartphones. No Instagram. 100 people still died because they stood watching the flames, thinking it was part of the show. I've retrofitted fire safety for some of the largest property portfolios in the UK post-grenfell. You are confusing stupidity with biology, physics, and catastrophic design failures. Here is the actual science of what you are watching: 1. When the music keeps playing and staff don't panic, the human brain overrides flight instincts to fit the threat into a normal context. This is called normalcy bias. These kids froze to process conflicting social cues, not to post for likes. They were likely already filming. They were also likely drunk. 2. We explicitly design buildings to account for this hesitation (pre-movement time). Fire safety codes assume people will wait before running. In a compliant building, you can assume up to a minute or two before egress commences. Sprinklers and detection systems are designed specifically to buy that time. 3. The reason the time buffer didn't exist here is the material. That ceiling is polyurethane foam. It doesn't burn linearly; it hits flashover (1,100°F) in under 90 seconds. It's essentially solid gasoline. The room would have exploded for all intents and purposes. Way before anyone could reasonably evacuate. 4. We calculate exit widths based on how many people can physically pass through a door per minute (flow rate) versus how fast a fire spreads. With foam fires, the available safe egress time drops to almost zero. Even if they had reacted instantly, the crowd density would have choked the exits before the room cleared. 5. In any normal building fire, especially one that starts off small, you expect a responsible adult to put it out, or sprinklers to do the same. When there's a pan fire in a restaurant, you don't run out in case the entire building suddenly explodes. No reasonable person should have expected this unless they were the owner and knew how the building was designed. Those poor teenagers likely passed out from smoke inhalation soon after this video. If they didn't, they would have been caught in a catastrophic explosion as they crammed into the single tiny exit. They didn't die because of Instagram. They died because the physics of the fire moved faster than human bodies can physically squeeze through a door, and a catastrophic disregard of safe design principles meant they never stood a chance.

A man hailed as a hero for tackling one of the Bondi Beach suspects has been misidentified in posts circulating online. The posts falsely claim that he’s named ‘Edward Crabtree’ - when his identity has been confirmed as Ahmed al Ahmed. fullfact.org/world/bondi-bea…

4 million views and 50,000 likes for this utterly baseless post which claims one of the Bondi Beach shooters "is an IDF soldier that served in Gaza". Please verify what you see on social media after a shooting and wait for information from official authorities and sources.

The claim that President Zelensky has bought Bill Cosby's house in New York is false, and originated from a fake news website posing as Page Six. The fake story is likely the work of Storm-1516, a long-running Russian disinformation operation targeting Ukraine.

The new “account based in” info is causing a lot of inauthentic accounts to panic. Back when I came across what looked to be an inauthentic account I’d check the posting times stats. Then that became impossible. Will be interesting to see if this makes a difference.

As their uniforms say, those are Garda officers in Ireland, not British police.

This video, which claims President Zelensky has a Russian passport, is fake. The editor of The New Voice of Ukraine has confirmed that the video wasn't produced by the outlet, and @DarrenLinvill says it's likely the work of a Russian disinformation campaign known as Storm-1516.

⚡️A fake is spreading online, claiming that hackers have "found" the russian passport of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, issued in the temporarily occupied Crimea in 2015. ✅ This information is not true.

For clarification the earliest recorded use was unrelated to cigarettes. (Might have worded the last tweet a little poorly.)

And the phrase “Happy Holidays” dates back to at least 1863, with that well known politically correct company, RJ Reynolds, in 1937 saying a gift of Camels says “Happy Holidays and Happy Smoking”.

It seems that the “War on Christmas” stories come earlier every year. For clarity Tesco has lots of “Christmas Trees” 🌲 tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/sh…

Can you show where the "UKHSA argued that releasing figures would lead to ‘distress or anger’ of bereaved relatives if connection were discovered"? AFAIK their argument was that people could identify dead individuals and contact their relatives, and *that* would cause distress?

I see the “War on Christmas” lot are getting upset that Tesco labeled an evergreen tree as an evergreen tree and have now decided that Tesco are anti-Christmas. For context, here is their advert this year. (Sadly I don’t get paid by them ;-) youtu.be/711Cq8_E0oI?si=WEGR…