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Posts on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), TikTok and Instagram have shared a video claiming that potatoes’ skins are dyed red so that they “sell for more money”.

But potato varieties with red skin don’t get their colour from being dyed, sprayed or painted.

False claims such as these can cause unnecessary alarm and uncertainty about what is safe to eat, and lead to confusion about genuine health guidance around food.

The original video circulating on social media was a joke from a TikTok account which posts about the workings of a potato farm in British Columbia in Canada.

However, the post has been shared by users in recent…

A video of white plumes coming from the tip of a plane’s wings has been shared on Facebook with the caption “Chemtrails come from engines right?”

The post has over 700 shares on Facebook and 8,000 likes on Instagram.

It’s not completely clear exactly what the caption means. It may be referring to the fact that so-called ‘chemtrails’ (the conspiracy theory that the white lines emitted from planes are actually chemicals being purposefully sprayed to harm people) are actually usually contrails. 

Contrails appear when water vapour, either already in the air around the engine or emitted from it, condenses around soot particles emitted from the combustion process due to cold temperatures at high altitude. This forms long thin lines of cloud. They can look…

By Jaqueline McCool · November 23, 2021, 4:45 PM EST

A New York company that provides web hosting services for mobile devices, including designing, maintaining and optimizing sites, is not subject to sales tax because it isn’t offering enumerated services subject…

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Everyone has their own idea of what makes a great web host. Loads of features, powerful servers, or maybe great support, low prices, or maybe some combination of these and other functionality important to the individual.

Some specialist web hosting review websites also place a high weight on their own web hosting benchmarks, though, especially speed and host uptime (the proportion of time a website is available online). That seems like the logical thing to do but does it actually make sense?

Everyone has their own idea of what makes a great web host. Loads of features, powerful servers, or maybe great support, low prices, or maybe some combination of these and other functionality important to the individual.

Some specialist web hosting review websites also place a high weight on their own web hosting benchmarks, though, especially speed and host uptime (the proportion of time a website is available online). That seems like the logical thing to do but does it actually make sense?