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Air France Airline Executives Get Suits Ripped To Shreds By Angry Workers

  • by: Maarten Schenk
  • (Tue, 06 Oct 2015 10:10:52 Z)

Scary moments for Air France's labour relations chief Xavier Broseta and airline airport director Pierre Plissonnier at Orly airport yesterday. After a meeting about staff cuts and other cost cutting measures that got out of hand they were assaulted by an angry mob of workers. They had to battle their way out of the situation with the help of security people. During the melee their shirts and suit jackets were literally torn to shreds by irate airline staff.

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Maarten Schenk is our resident expert on fake news and hoax websites. He likes to go beyond just debunking trending fake news stories and is endlessly fascinated by the dazzling variety of psychological and technical tricks used by the people and networks who intentionally spread made-up things on the internet.  He can often be found at conferences and events about fake news, disinformation and fact checking when he is not in his office in Belgium monitoring and tracking the latest fake article to go viral.

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