Anne-Marie Downes

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Here’s a fun @easyJet travel story

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@TravelSYorks One of the 51 buses has now picked me up in Broomhill

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@TravelSYorks Any services still running from broomhill that can get me to the station?

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@TravelSYorks Three buses with ‘not in service’ just came past Crosspool and one driver pulled over and said to us ‘they’ve stopped sending buses up here’

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It’s quite exciting really, I don���t think anyone’s ever blocked me before!

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took @Independent half an hour to take down their erroneous story about Russian blowing up Chernobyl nuclear waste facilities after myself and many others had pointed out it was a mistranslation (guy had said it COULD happen).

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@Independent No it wasn’t:

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Just found out who wrote the article - I previously didn’t know who it was, have never contacted them/been on their profile - click out of interest - see I’ve been preemptively blocked for quite politely pointing out that their news story was incorrect.

What a journalist…

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@no_identd @Independent @RichardEngel @RorySullivan92 @no_identd out of interest, has the journalist in question blocked you too?

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@no_identd @Independent @RichardEngel @RorySullivan92 Don’t know if you’ve read Terry Pratchett’s novel The Truth (you should!), but this quote from it is apt: “A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”

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@no_identd @Independent @RichardEngel @RorySullivan92 You’re probably right! I don’t know much more because soon after that my lunch break was over 😁 I do understand how in a chaotic situation like this misunderstandings occur among folks on Twitter, but it’s rather grim that professional journalists aren’t checking.

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@no_identd @Independent @RichardEngel @RorySullivan92 I only realised it was rubbish because I found people in the comments pointing out what it actually said

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@no_identd @Independent @RichardEngel @RorySullivan92 Not sure that was the initial originator because it doesn’t include the screenshot of what the advisor actually said - which tweets like this one did

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@davidstehle @OTCeIIy @Independent And this one’s getting way less traction, so people won’t see the correction.

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@Independent It would be more honest to have corrected or clarified your first post than to pretend you never wrote it. Please fact check properly.

Glad you’ve fixed it though.

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@Independent @Independent your mistranslation is making people panic: would you please issue a correction

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@Independent No it wasn’t:

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@ChameleonKamala @Independent This is just me quoting Twitter journalists though, I’m no expert

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@ChameleonKamala @Independent I think it was Anton Herashchenko, Ukrainian political advisor, whose post was mistranslated