I was there, and I think the outraged and slighted conflated the poppy conveniently with the fact they walked in with flags in the first place. The talk of a *boycott* of Wetherspoons from the protesters following this was unintentionally hilarious. Hampshire Police did a great job all in all.

This image from events in France overnight is doing the rounds on this sewer. I've not seen it verified so was curious to run it through an AI check. The new OpenAI tool came up with nothing, a surface level SynthID check via Gemini was the same. However, going direct to synthid.com for analysis and here we are. Now, the reports from Le Parisien are genuine. The newspaper reports that an elderly couple were allegedly robbed and left in their underwear near Place de la République, citing a police source. But there's an important point here, and one that X continually exploits time and time again. The existence of a reported incident doesn't establish the authenticity of an image supposedly showing it. Nor is an AI detection tool, or the absence of a watermark, definitive proof either way. Until the original source of this image can be established, it remains unverified and should be treated as such. It's an important reminder of how easily a genuine news report and an unverified image can become one seemingly credible story that whips up outrage and further hostility.