Hong Kong-based online platform 9GAG, home to memes, stories and edited videos around the world, wrote about the controversial report on its website and titled it “Human Waste Dumped From Chinese Ships In South China Sea Visible From Space.” The article, which was also shared on social media on July 14, cited the findings of US-based tech firm Simularity in its report titled “Sewage from Anchored Ships is Damaging Spratlys Reefs.” Citing photos captured via satellite imagery, the report showed that hundreds of anchored ships in the Spratlys Islands in the West Philippine Sea had been dumping raw sewage onto the reefs for the last five years.