Re: In today's news...
Snopes is pretty good, and does help on many things(Though they are not entirely unbiased on all matters, they make a good effort and succeed at it most of the time). They do more to disprove or confirm things than most people care to do on their own, and that makes them a good site to check for initial, low-key fact checking for things you're not invested into.
Do your own fact checking if you actually want to know the details and how things are. It's not hard, it's just time consuming and you have to know how. For the ambulance matter, they did about as well as one could, though they aren't listing their own sources, or explaining the methods used to investigate.
With the lack of actual sources and information on the claim (Ambulance blocked, death caused, no location, no names, no specific time), it is difficult to look for confirmation on anything. Which is of itself a good indicator that someone has intentionally kept things vague so that their claim could not be disproven- A thing that only really happens with a fake claim.
That said, if there is a video or similar, then one can study that and get a whole lot further into either proving or disproving the matter. But that depends on the video quality as well. Stuff like being able to see the licence plate is gold for fact checking, as you can track down the ambulance and ask the organisation using it if they have any records of it. Street name signs too are helpful, as you can find the location and then ask the local hospitals for information.
But I feel like I may be rambling, so I'm going to shut up and post some news
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The crack in an Antarctic ice shelf just grew by 11 miles. A break could be imminent.
It's not a good thing, to say the least