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Blog: Our search for truth in the hogweed case

BlogpostBy Lobachevsky University Russia November 11, 2020 1 Comment

“A toxic alien is taking over Russia”, is the headline of an opinion piece in The New York Times on October 3. According to her, hogweed is an extremely poisonous plant, dangerous not only for people, but also for local flora, and the territory occupied by hogweed in the Moscow region alone is 270 square miles, but…

Mostly true: “More Dutch weed farms in foreign countries”

Fact-check, Mostly trueBy AP University College, BE February 14, 2019 2 Comments

On the 3rd of February 2019, several newspapers including Metro reported that more weed farms with Dutch characteristics were being discovered in countries across Europe. The articles were written due to the report from the investigative journalism programme Reporter Radio on Dutch radio station NPO Radio 1. The claim seems to be mostly true. In…