The grounding of the Ever Given container ship in the Suez Canal dominated headlines the last week of March - an event that lent itself to countless memes and, given the timing, at least one high-profile April Fool's Day prank. Under an all-caps "BREAKING" banner on its Twitter feed, the European branch of Greenpeace posted on 1 April: "Greenpeace's flagship Rainbow Warrior Ⅲ has become stuck in the Corinth Canal". The "news" was accompanied by what purported to be a screen shot from a ship-tracking service with coordinates, status ("stuck") and estimated time of arrival given as"????". The post also featured an image of the environmental group's flagship vessel wedged in the famously narrow Greek canal that would fail to fool even the most gullible Twitter reader.
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