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According to a supposed screenshot circulating on Facebook and X (formerly Twitter), the Guardian has published an article about alien bacteria dying from bird flu on Mars. 

However, this is not a real article.

The image resembles a Guardian web page, with the headline: “First case of alien bacteria dying from bird flu recorded on Mars”.

This is followed by a subheading which reads: “Virus may have already killed other undescovered [sic] alien life across several local planets, possibly spreading across the universe”. 

Full Fact could not find any such article on the Guardian’s website or through a wider internet search. 

The Guardian also told Full Fact the screenshot “is not and has never been an article or headline published by the…

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird filed a lawsuit this week seeking to require TikTok to change its age rating in the Apple App Store.

Bird is seeking a temporary injunction that would require TikTok, a video social media app, to change its age rating to “17+” in the App Store until the lawsuit is resolved. The state attorney general sued TikTok in January, claiming that the app and its owner were deceiving parents with the current “12+” age rating, as some videos posted on the platform feature explicit material, including sexual content, profanity, drugs and self-harm.

Bird argued in the lawsuit that TikTok not abiding by the age warning system violates the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act.

“It’s past time for TikTok to be honest with…

Synergies upwards of $20 million and key profitable markets including Washington D.C., Baltimore, MD and Salt Lake City UT.

Combined, Bird will serve approximately 350 markets globally with over 200,000 vehicles

MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bird Global, Inc. (NYSE:BRDS), (“Bird” or the “Company”) a leader in environmentally friendly electric transportation, today announced it has acquired shared electric bike and scooter operator Skinny Labs, Inc, (doing business as Spin) from Berlin-based TIER Mobility. The transaction makes Bird the largest micromobility operator in North America by market share¹ and is expected to be immediately accretive to earnings. Spin is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bird Rides, Inc. The purchase price was $19 million, including $10 million in…