The Notre Dame Cathedral fire presented social media companies with one of the first major tests of their nascent programmes aimed at fighting misinformation in real time – and critics say they failed. Another zooms in on a figure apparently wearing a hi-vis vest and hard hat, captioning it as a “Muslim at Notre Dame”. The Paris public prosecutor, Rémy Heitz, said on Tuesday that “nothing indicates” the Notre Dame blaze, which brought the building’s spire and roof crashing down, was started on purpose. Play Video 0:43 Inside Notre Dame as fire swept through cathedral - videoAs well as outright lies, misinformation was spread in other ways. “During Holy Week Notre Dame burns.

Source: The Guardian April 16, 2019 15:51 UTC