Communicating vaccination risk

Guest authors Dame Sarah Gilbert and Sean Elias explain how we should discuss risk vs benefit in the context of vaccination.

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A Full Fact investigation has found a series of social media accounts have been using AI-generated deepfakes of real doctors and academics to promote health supplements.

A still from a deepfake video of Professor David Taylor-Robinson

Although some of the videos have been removed, others continue to circulate on multiple social media platforms.

Deepfake doctors

Videos shared hundreds of times on social media have claimed the government is introducing a £500 “Christmas Decoration Tax”.

A picture of a family visiting Christmas lights on a house in Sheffield, UK

This is false—there’s no such policy. This is the latest example of fake claims about supposed new government policies that affect people’s personal freedoms.

Christmas claims

At PMQs Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch clashed over how the number of teachers has changed under Labour.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and education secretary Bridget Phillipson MP sitting in a primary school classroom

There were around 400 fewer FTE teachers in England overall in November 2024 than in November 2023, but we don’t know how the number of teachers has changed in the year since.

Teacher totals