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ALBAWABA - Spanish Minister Teresa Ribera went viral after being seen riding a bicycle to the climate change summit venue. However, Ribera faced backlas
  • nudny ekscentryk@szmer.infoEnglish
    61·
    1 year ago

    This was fact-checked to be false: source 1 in English, source 2 in Spanish.

    1. she wasn’t onboard the government jet (also, wasn’t even a private jet)
    2. she was there a day before to attend a different event
    3. she traveled there by a hybrid
    4. the rest of her team travelled by bullet train
    5. she wasn’t allowed on the bullet train for security reasons (though I can’t quite see how a car is safer, lol)
    6. she has been photographed biking around the city in the day before the climate conferene
    7. the person who made the original tweet this article is based on deleted it and acknowledged having made this up
      • nudny ekscentryk@szmer.infoEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        She didn’t took a jet. She travelled by car between cities and then commuted on a bike. The original tweet by “Dr. Eli Davis” has been deleted. You’re spreading misinformation.

        • money_loo@geddit.socialEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          And as an American knowing absolutely nothing about this country’s politics, I’m going to take a wild stab in the dark that this prime minister is the closest equivalent we have to a democrat.

          Only because for some reason nobody cares when the far right does truly despicable shit, but one socialist takes a jet and they are Satan incarnate.