Video of man hitching a ride in a trolley is from South Africa, not UK

A video of a man hitching a ride from a fuel tanker while sitting in a shopping trolley has been misrepresented online as taking place in the UK. An X post , seen more than 2.2 million times, miscaptioned the video: “M1 heading north, ffs.” The M1 is a 200-mile (322 kilometre) stretch of highway connecting London to northern England. A Facebook user sharing the same video wrote: “M1 heading north…..they’ve conquered the seas, now it’s our roads…. Coming to a house near you real soon.” The 18-second video was...