On March 23, 2021, shipping traffic through Egypt’s Suez Canal, one of the world’s vital shipping routes, was ground to a halt after a large vessel called the “Ever Given” got stuck in the passageway.
According to nautical tracking service VesselFinder, the nearly 200-foot wide, 224,000-ton vessel, charted a route resembling a penis, testicles and an enormous butt in the Red Sea shortly before it became stuck, causing an intercontinental traffic jam in the vital maritime artery.
A spokesperson for vesselfinder.com confirmed to Vice News that the ship’s tracking data was accurate, “There is no room for some kind of conspiracies or false data.” “Innocent, but terrible luck,” disinformation researcher John Scott-Railton captioned a tweet of