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MisleadingScience

The 1960 ‘doomsday’ paper projected population growth

The paper gave a date in 2026 for what its math called ‘doomsday’. It assumed that population growth would keep speeding up as it had in the past. Real population growth did not follow that path.

Western News · ABC News
MisleadingIndia

The ‘Mumbai bullet train’ video was filmed in Taiwan

This video was filmed in Taiwan. Two fact-checkers traced it to footage of a train arriving at Kaohsiung Port. Posts sharing it as a delivery to Mumbai gave the wrong location.

India Today Fact Check · Lighthouse Journalism