UK city branded 'one of the worst' as locals say 'don't come here' - and it's a WW3 target

The Daily Star reports two separate rankings of Portsmouth: Anker's list of the worst places to live in England and a World War 3 vulnerability map built by developer Serhii Kashevko, alongside a few social media comments from residents. In one sentence the outlet says the map "revealed" that Portsmouth is the second most dangerous place in a war, though the article later quotes the developer calling it a thought experiment and not a forecast. Our review found nothing else in the piece that misleads its reader.

1. States one side's claim as fact

   Minor

   “a separate "doomsday" map revealed that Portsmouth is also the second most dangerous place to live in the UK if World War 3 breaks out”

   Why this matters

   The Daily Star says the map "revealed" that Portsmouth "is" the second most dangerous place to live in a war, treating one developer's model output as a discovered fact.

   The impression it gives

   A reader takes it as established that Portsmouth would be the second most dangerous place in the UK in a world war.

   The context

   The ranking is a score from an online postcode checker built by one developer, who says plainly that it is a thought experiment built on public data and not a forecast. The article does print his caveat further down, so the gap is small.

   How we know

   • Elsewhere in the article“It's a thought experiment built on public data. Not a forecast.”
   • Elsewhere in the article“created by developer Serhii Kashevko”