{"id":391354,"date":"2026-01-26T14:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/391354\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T14:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:21:12","slug":"bbc-verify-social-media-users-turn-to-ai-in-attempt-to-enhance-minneapolis-shooting-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/391354\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify: Social media users turn to AI in attempt to &#8216;enhance&#8217; Minneapolis shooting images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts raise concerns about dark fleet tanker in Mediterraneanpublished at 13:57 GMT<\/p>\n<p>13:57 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-arspwv-Contributor etflsgg2\">Joshua Cheetham<br \/>BBC Verify journalist<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019re continuing to look at a so-called \u201cdark fleet\u201d oil tanker &#8211; the Chariot Tide &#8211; which has been displaying some unusual behaviour in the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tracking data from MarineTraffic shows it left northern Russia before sailing through the Baltic and south towards the Strait of Gibraltar, signalling it was travelling to Tangier, Morocco. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As it approached the Strait of Gibraltar on 22 January, the 18-year-old ship began signalling \u201cNot Under Command\u201d. We can see four tug boats sailed around it as it travelled east through the strait at low speed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On 24 January, tracking shows it making looping movements in the Mediterranean before continuing east at low speed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The reason for this is unclear. Mark Douglas, an analyst at Starboard Maritime Intelligence, says its direction of travel is different from where the ship is pointing, suggesting that it might be being carried by strong winds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A satellite image of dark fleet tanker Progress\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ec6ac5bd-a789-4b26-a453-dc61974ece39.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"621\" height=\"285\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Starboard Maritime IntelligenceImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of the dark fleet tankers &#8211; Progress &#8211; was captured by satellite<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A second vessel &#8211; named Progress &#8211; has also recently signalled \u201cNot Under Command\u201d while in the Mediterranean. Douglas says records show this has been updated to \u201cIn Casualty or Repairing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Satellite imagery shows that it, too, is pointing in a different direction to where it\u2019s actually travelling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Michelle Bockmann, senior analyst at Windward, says it\u2019s likely that Progress has been heading towards India or China with Russian crude oil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Chariot Tide is being shadowed in international waters by a Spanish search and rescue vessel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bockmann says Chariot Tide is falsely flagged to Mozambique and like many dark fleet ships is uninsured. If an oil spill takes place this complicates who would pay for the cleanup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cThe dark fleet is an accident waiting to happen, and it&#8217;s unsurprising, in one respect, that we&#8217;re seeing vessels having mechanical difficulties,\u201d says Bockmann. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Experts raise concerns about dark fleet tanker in Mediterraneanpublished at 13:57 GMT 13:57 GMT Joshua CheethamBBC Verify journalist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-391354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}