US President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed today featured the claim that his administration had “added” 4.8 million jobs to the US economy during the month of June. This exceeded the expectations of economists and, at face value, made it seem like the US is not in the worst period of unemployment since the 1930s. While the claim is technically accurate, …

Daniel Mackisack Circulating on social media over the last 48 hours has been the claim that Mexican citizens are protesting Americans entering the country. After a brief investigation, ‘The Best Disinfectant’ can verify that although this claim is TRUE, it is a limited protest of less than a dozen people at a single border crossing between the Mexican state of …

RESULT: INCONCLUSIVE As the conflict between democracy protesters and the military led government in Sudan escalates, reports have emerged of a crackdown on press freedoms and foreign journalists being prevented from leaving their hotels or even venturing out on to balconies. At the same time, a demonstration of local journalists outside the offices of Al Jazeera was reportedly broken up …

Our Finding: FALSE. The descibed events did not take place. On the 27th of March an image began circulating around Arabic speaking social media, claiming to depict the New Zealand Air Force engaged in formation flight and skywriting ‘Allah’ in Arabic. This came 2 weeks after a horrific white supremacist terrorist attack in Christchuch, New Zealand left 50 dead and …

Students across the world took part again in school strikes for climate action on Friday, one week after almost 1.5 million people joined a global green protest. From the Indian state of Assam to New York City, Reykjavik to Ghana, students marched in at least 357 cities in 68 countries demanding immediate environmental action, according to the Fridays for Future …

When the United Kingdom formally started proceedings to leave the European Union two years ago, its international trade secretary, Liam Fox, promised the UK would have 40 trade deals with nations in place by the time it exited the bloc. With just two weeks until Brexit, however, only seven countries have agreed to roll over trade deals with the UK. …

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An Egyptian Subway spokesperson has advised people to commit suicide elsewhere to avoid maintenance cost and delays to trains and railways. “We are not a means to Suicide”- said a Cairo Subway official to local press on Monday (02 September) in response to a recent incident at one of the networks stations. This comes as a remark in response to …

A little while back, a good friend told me that an Octopus was “one big brain” and “basically an alien”. It’s a hard statement to swallow at first, but when they went into a bit more detail it started to seem like they might be telling the truth. Cephalopods, the family of lifeforms of which an Octopus is a member …

There’s been plenty of talk over the years about the ups and downs of social media. In the early days we used to envisage a dawning utopia, where everyone met each other, shared, bonded and grew together. Reality has been quite different. These days, despite enormous successes in proliferating important information and connecting individuals far and wide, networks can be …