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Air Quality in Central Europe (i.redd.it)
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[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago

First, as others have stated: this is misleading, but that is fine as many maps are misleading and discussion around it is good so people who don't often look at data or maps get more critical of what they see. An image with data but no sources is to be taken with a grain of salt.

Second (related to the first), where is the source. I could not find this map on US Air Quality Index so I guess its an app that pulls data from there (so they might be interpreting the data wrong or just took a snapshot of a specific datetime or whatever. Also I couldn't even find data for europe on their website).

I went to reddit and here's the original post that also lacks the source and the comments are pretty much the same as here.