Australia fires: Misleading maps and pictures go viral
U.S. · WORLD
January 8, 20203 min read586 words
Published: January 8, 2020  |  3 min read586 words
Maps and pictures of Australia's unprecedented bushfires have spread widely on social media.Users are posting them to raise awareness of the devastating fires, but some of the viral maps are misleading, spreading disinformation about the crisis.The months-long fires have killed a...
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January 8, 2020
This is a really nice explanation of how recent fire maps of Australia (about this fire and likely other previous ones) are distorted spreading miss information. They also discuss their protocol for making BBC's fire map and of course include a link to it.
January 8, 2020
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