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Multiple posts on social media falsely claim a video shows hundreds of birds that were supposedly killed by severe temperatures of -52°C in Xinjiang, China. 

In fact, the footage comes from South Dakota in the US. 

The video seemingly shows hundreds of dead birds frozen to the surface of an expanse of water. 

It has been shared on both X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook with the caption: “Today, temperatures in Xinjiang, China dropped 45° [sic] almost instantly to a low of -52℃ (-61.6℉), kiIIing hundreds of waterfowl. Will they blame this on global warming?” 

While temperatures in Xinjiang, in the north west of China, were reported to have reached -52°C in recent days, the video does not show scenes from this region. 

The video was first shared by an

A radio host was killed while broadcasting live in the Philippines on Sunday, and the murder was also livestreamed on Facebook.

Juan Jumalon, 57, was hosting a morning show on Gold FM 94.7 from his home in Calamba, about 30 miles south of Manila.

The gunmen entered the home/radio station by telling someone inside they had “something important” to announce on air, police sources told the Filipino outlet Cebu Daily News.

Cops said one man then walked into Jumalon’s broadcasting booth, while another stood guard. Juamlon’s show was being simulcast on the station’s Facebook page. The gruesome video shows Jumalon looking toward something off-camera, then two gunshots are heard and Jumalon slumps, bloodied, in his chair.

Jumalon was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead…

The context collapse has escalated at the site formerly known as Twitter: Starting sometime yesterday, the previews that X automatically generates of shared links now strips them of headlines and displays only the lead art and the link’s domain name in the bottom-left corner.

For example, the preview card for my share of the story I wrote yesterday about Android 14 consisted of a header image we ran from Google PR, stamped with “pcmag.com.” Previously, the preview card would have included that image but also the headline and a snippet of the story’s text, which made it obvious you were looking at a shared link and not an attached photo. 

The move, which Elon Musk argued in August would “greatly improve the [a]esthetics” of X, both strips possibly crucial context from posts…