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Apocalypse Amazon: How the media feeds a 'first world' doomsday fix

Brazil’s new president has emboldened loggers, but the destruction is far less than in decades past

By Tatiana Prophet
editor@back2facts.com

Reuters actually ran a correction on the story, qualifying the “record fires” statement with an added “since 2010.” Other articles stated “since record keeping began.” But many sites carried the original story, and in the case of Euro News, the error is still up. So is Emmanuel Macron’s tweet below, which contains a photo from 1999. (Celebrity Jaden Smith shared a photo from 1989).