[HN Gopher] Australia fires: Misleading maps and pictures go viral
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       Australia fires: Misleading maps and pictures go viral
        
       Author : pionerkotik
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2020-01-07 22:05 UTC (54 minutes ago)
        
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 (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...
        
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