False claims suggesting that the BBC has been misreporting temperatures in southern Europe have been spreading on social media.

A clip of Neil Oliver, a GB News presenter, accusing the BBC “and others” of “driving fear” by using “supposedly terrifying temperatures”, has been viewed more than two million times.

For the past few weeks, an intense heatwave has been sweeping through parts of southern Europe and north Africa, with extensive wildfires breaking out in Greece, Italy and Algeria - leading to more than 40 deaths.

Speaking about the fires on Rhodes on GB News on Monday, Mr Oliver accused the BBC, and other broadcasters, of trying to “make people terrified of the weather”.

  • P03 Locke
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    532 years ago
    1. Argue that it’s not hot outside
    2. Go outside in 120F weather
    3. Die
    4. Darwinism
    • @BassaForte
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      182 years ago

      That would be an actual good scenario but unfortunately won’t happen

    • @btaf45
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      152 years ago

      Conservative: But I thought my ability to swallow bullshit was going to be a superpower, not a death trap.

    • @angrystego
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      102 years ago

      When someone argues it’s not hot outside in southern Europe and then goes out in Britain, there’s no darwinism at play, I’m affraid.