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False claims suggesting that the BBC has been misreporting temperatures in southern Europe have been spreading on social media.

A clip of Neil Oliver, a GB News presenter, accusing the BBC "and others" of "driving fear" by using "supposedly terrifying temperatures", has been viewed more than two million times.

For the past few weeks, an intense heatwave has been sweeping through parts of southern Europe and north Africa, with extensive wildfires breaking out in Greece, Italy and Algeria - leading to more than 40 deaths.

Speaking about the fires on Rhodes on GB News on Monday, Mr Oliver accused the BBC, and other broadcasters, of trying to "make people terrified of the weather".

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[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 1 year ago
  1. Argue that it's not hot outside
  2. Go outside in 120F weather
  3. Die
  4. Darwinism
[-] BassaForte@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

That would be an actual good scenario but unfortunately won't happen

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago

They're the ones that're breeding the most right now.

[-] gornar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Idiocracy was a documentary!

[-] btaf45@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Conservative: But I thought my ability to swallow bullshit was going to be a superpower, not a death trap.

[-] angrystego@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

When someone argues it's not hot outside in southern Europe and then goes out in Britain, there's no darwinism at play, I'm affraid.

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