Media outlets in the US mistakenly attributed firework celebrations in the UK to Joe Biden’s election win this weekend after they seemingly forgot about the time-honoured tradition of Guy Fawkes Night.
Newspapers including The Hill and World News Tonight reported that the “world was celebrating” the election result after pictures of fireworks in London and Edinburgh coincided with Biden being confirmed as President-elect.
The reports appeared to stem from social media users in the UK who picked up on positive sentiment in regards to Donald Trump’s defeat.
Yet the pyrotechnics were more likely in honour of the Gunpowder Plot rather than the Biden/Harris plot.
Although as some pointed out, there would have certainly been cross-overs:
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