Rupert Murdoch’s media company was targeted after a climate activist group said his newspapers treated the current heatwave as an “upbeat story.”
At 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday, two people from Extinction Rebellion (XR) smashed two windows at the entrance of the News UK building at London Bridge.
Four others sprayed “tell the truth” and “40 degrees = DEATH” on the front of the building and pasted recent copies of The Sun headlines about the heatwave onto windows.
‘Happy Toddlers With Ice Creams’
News UK owns The Sun, the Times, and The Sunday Times.
During the record-breaking heat in the UK, one XR activist said they were protesting that News UK publications were printing stories of “people happy in the sun,” “women in bikinis,” and “happy toddlers with ice creams.”…
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