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Fact Check: Are there more full-time baristas than coal industry workers in Australia?
In a widely shared Facebook post mocking those who would dismiss environmentalists as "latte sipping lefties" who hate Australian jobs, the Young Greens claimed that more people were working as full-time baristas in 2019 than were employed in the coal ind
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Fact Check: Is facial recognition technology worse at identifying darker-skinned faces than lighter ones?
Facial recognition technology, which often relies on opaque algorithms developed by tech companies, is rapidly infiltrating many aspects of people's lives. But lawyers and technology experts warn the technology can be racially discriminatory.
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Fact Check: Have more than a billion animals perished nationwide this bushfire season? Here are the facts
An ecology expert from the University of Sydney says the fires burning across Australia have killed more than 800 million mammals, birds and reptiles, and claims that the total is probably "over a billion".
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Fact Check: Has NSW seen more than twice the amount of prescribed burning in national parks this decade compared with the last?
Some people have claimed there was a lack of prescribed burning in NSW before this season's bushfires, but a landscape flammability expert says this is completely false.
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Fact Check Fact File: Some Coalition MPs say that arson is mostly to blame for the bushfire crisis. Here are the facts
Social media is rife with claims that unprecedented levels of arson, not climate change, is the main cause of this season's bushfires. But what does the data show?