If you get intimidated by the dirty pigeons in your local park or town center, you may only have yourself — or at least, your ancestors — to blame. Snopes looks at the urban legend that humans originally domesticated pigeons to be companions and no pigeons cannot survive without humans, and finds it mostly true.
(It's too bad, however, that the magazine "lightly edited" the transcripts -- this means the editors cleaned up his notorious word salad, giving a false impression of sorts.)
@jor@Shibanarchiste#Factcheck En réalité le double standard favorise la liberté d'expression en permettant de traiter deux fois plus d'appels téléphoniques. ☝️😐
Veteran journalist Krishna Prasad has emphasised the need for fact-checking to become the primary task of credible news media in an age of fake news and propaganda.
It's indeed an important factor to circulate credible news!
Every time there's a #SolarEclipse, this computer-generated image by artist A4size-ska does the rounds on social media. Even though the artist clearly discloses it for what it is, a digital composite, many people share it as a genuine photograph of an #eclipse seen from #space
Russia has repeatedly blamed Ukraine for last week's deadly Moscow concert hall attack, despite the Islamic State (IS) group claiming responsibility and Ukraine's denials.
Mastodon isn't flawlessly straightforward. Friendica isn't flawlessly straightforward. Diaspora isn't flawlessly straightforward. Twitter sure as hell wasn't. Never ran into any software anywhere that was.