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☆ Fact Check-"15-minute city" slogan on Ottawa construction site not evidence of any government policy where citizens will be "locked in"
  + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
Furthermore, the 15-minute cities concept does not suggest locking residents within certain areas or using checkpoints and fines, as social media posts suggest. The 15-minute city concept is widely credited to Carlos Moreno, a city planning researcher who coined the term in 2016 (here). He said “15-minute neighbourhoods” are a part of the city’s Official Plan (here) but Brigil’s adoption of it “is a market choice and not a policy requirement”. Wise added: “The idea of 15-minute cities is not new and does not aim to limit movement across the city. The urban planning concept known as ‘15-minute cities’ does not include plans to limit freedom of movement or fine people for leaving their neighbourhood.
☆ Fact Check-Scotland’s ‘20-minute neighbourhoods’ policy addresses climate change and infrastructure; there are no plans to imprison people or limit freedom of movement
  + stars: | 2023-01-30 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
Social media users claim a Scottish climate policy will imprison people in their homes and prevent them from leaving their respective ‘districts’. The government plans to overhaul the infrastructure of towns and cities by creating ‘20-minute neighbourhoods’, which aim to provide people with all their needs within a 20-minute journey from their home. One Facebook user, whose post has been shared more than 500 times (here), published a screenshot of a news headline which reads: “Scotland aims to cut car use by creating ‘20-minute neighbourhoods’ in net zero push” (here). “It promotes an integrated approach to planning housing, local infrastructure including schools, community centres, local shops and health and social care. Scotland’s ‘20-minute neighbourhood’ policy does not include plans to imprison people in districts or use cameras and fines to deter people from moving around.
☆ Fact Check-Photo of ‘District 5’ road sign is digitally altered
  + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
A photo of a British road sign that appears to indicate motorists are leaving a so-called “District 5” has been digitally altered. The doctored image, seen here and here, was captured on an unidentified road and shows a blue vehicle passing two signs: one says “police enforcement cameras” are in operation, while another underneath says road users are “now Leaving District 5”. Moreover, the original photo can be traced back to a 2016 article in The Telegraph (here) and shows that only the “police enforcement cameras” sign is real. Professional photographer Eleanor Bentall (www.eleanorbentall.com/), who has worked for The Telegraph (here and twitter.com/EleanorBentall), is credited in the caption. The “now leaving District 5” comment was digitally added to the photograph.
☆ Fact Check-Survey about Oxford traffic filters has been misinterpreted
  + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
An Oxfordshire County Council survey of opinions from residents over proposed traffic filters has been misinterpreted online, a council spokesperson has told Reuters. Thousands of people have interacted with social media posts that claim the council is going ahead with trialling six traffic filters across Oxford city despite 93% of the survey’s 5,600 respondents rejecting the proposals. The council spokesperson said an independent surveying company was then hired to better understand the answers (see the analysis, published in November, bit.ly/3FTvNws, page 42). “Some have claimed that the table [page 42] shows ‘only 7% of the public support the traffic filters’, and therefore 93% must disagree with them. Read more about our work to fact-check social media posts here .
☆ An astronomer was locked out of her Twitter account for months after posting a video of a meteor that was flagged as 'intimate content', report says
  + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
An astronomer was locked out of Twitter for months after posting a video of a meteor, per BBC News. Mary McIntyre said Twitter deemed her August video to have broken its content rules. She regained access to her account on Thursday after BBC News published its story. —Mary McIntyre FRAS (she/her) (@Spicey_Spiney) August 13, 2022The astronomer's Twitter account remained online, but she told the BBC she had not been able to log in to use it. McIntyre told the BBC that she had refused to delete the tweet because doing so would amount to an admittance of guilt.
☆ UK police arrest 17-year-old on suspicion of hacking
  + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterA hooded man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. Top U.S. fuel pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline has shut its entire network after a cyber attack, the company said on Friday. read moreRegister now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterThe police could not confirm if the arrest was related to that investigation. In April, City of London Police charged two teenagers aged 16 and 17 in connection with an investigation into hacking. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Farouq Suleiman and Paul Sandle; editing by William James and Alex RichardsonOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ Flights briefly disrupted at UK's Luton airport as heat damages runway
  + stars: | 2022-07-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
LONDON, July 18 (Reuters) - Flights to and from Britain's London Luton airport were temporarily disrupted on Monday after soaring temperatures caused a defect in its runway, prompting airlines to delay or divert their planes. read moreThe airport said its runway had reopened at 1705 GMT, after earlier suspending flights at 1522 GMT. Some 14 flights due to land at Luton were diverted to other airports including Gatwick and Stansted on Monday afternoon, according to FlightRadar24 data. That total included 14 Wizz flights heading to European holiday destinations including Tenerife and Dubrovnik, and 16 EasyJet arrivals. A spokesperson for Ryanair said it had not cancelled any flights to or from Luton, but had diverted a small number to London Stansted Airport due to the runway defect.
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