7 April 2021 15:55 GMT Updated 7 April 2021 15:55 GMT in London
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”. BREAKING
Greenpeace s flagship Rainbow Warrior III has become stuck in the Corinth Canal pic.twitter.com/qUN8Vg91Ji Greenpeace EU (@GreenpeaceEU) April 1, 2021
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 ???? .