PolitiFact has checked false claims that Antarctica contained a secret entrance to a hidden world inside the Earth, that it had ancient pyramids and that it’s not a real continent. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)Ĭonspiracy theories related to the continent are not new. This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. But the terrain featured in the video isn’t actually in Antarctica. The woman urges viewers to go on Google and check out the street view for themselves.

'Now, I know I smoke a lot of weed, but this s- ain’t adding up,' the woman says.

'So for Antarctica to be completely covered in ice, that’s what we’ve been taught all my life, why, when you go on Google Maps, does it show this,' the woman says as the video switches from a map view of the icy continent to a street view showing a green, tree-lined landscape with buildings. The video originally came from TikTok and features a user reacting to another video of a woman looking at a map of Antarctica on Google. A spokesperson for campaign group Free Our Own Liberties said that “many people have contacted us asking how they can un-blur faces of cheating husbands, slacking workers, and local hooligans”, he continued “these images were taken on the street, in public, so there is no legal requirement for Google to blur the faces”.A secret is lurking on the surface of Antarctica, and the only way to uncover it is by accessing Google's Street View feature, according to a recent Facebook video.

In a surprise change-of-tune, privacy campaigners welcomed the move. The process can take up to 24 hours, but we’ve already managed to unblur this image of a man leaving a sex shop.Īn unnamed man is seen leaving a shop named adultworld with a highly suspicious plastic carrier bag.

The un-blurred images can be accessed by clicking “Request original image” on the street view you are interested in. Oxford City Council refused to comment about this un-blurred image of a man who can clearly be seen swearing at the camera. However, due to a loophole in the Freedom of Information Act, Google must now provide users a system to un-blur the images upon request. Google blurs certain elements of Street View images, including license plates and detectable faces, to protect the identities of those photographed on the street.

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