[HN Gopher] Australia fires: Misleading maps and pictures go viral ___________________________________________________________________ Australia fires: Misleading maps and pictures go viral Author : pionerkotik Score : 26 points Date : 2020-01-07 22:05 UTC (54 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (www.bbc.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.bbc.com) | savethefuture wrote: | Didn't the same thing happen with the Amazon fires recently? | e40 wrote: | I'm a big fan of https://www.memeorandum.com/ but I saw a story | on there that "almost 200 people had been arrested for setting | fires" ... only to find Alex Jones was one of the sources. | Crikey. | vondur wrote: | Well, it does seem to be semi factual, 183 people had been | arrested, "only 24 of them for arson: 24 | people have been charged over alleged deliberately-lit | bushfires 53 people have had legal actions for | allegedly failing to comply with a total fire ban, and | 47 people have had legal actions for allegedly discarding a | lighted cigarette or match on land. | | Source: | https://www.police.nsw.gov.au/news/news_article?sq_content_s... | ggm wrote: | The Guardian has a visualisation of the total area burned in this | fire season, which can be overlayed on google maps to any | location. It is not the size of 'currently burning' but is the | size of 'burning, or burnt' | | https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/ng-inter... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-01-07 23:00 UTC)