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Recent fact checks

Widely shared videos falsely claim the UK government or other authorities are introducing new measures to limit personal freedoms.

Person holding a mobile phone running TikTok.

Full Fact identified 14 different TikTok accounts involved in sharing the videos, all of which were banned by the platform after we got in touch.

TikTok investigation

US President Donald Trump has linked the use of the common painkiller (known as paracetamol the UK) during pregnancy to an increased risk of autism.

US President Donald Trump (C), alongside Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (L) and Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Mehmet Oz (R), speaks about autism in White House

While some studies do show an association between paracetamol in pregnancy and autism in children, other higher-quality studies don’t.

Tylenol and autism

An AI-generated picture claiming to show a group of “Epping mums” with their daughters has been shared thousands of times online.

Epping, Essex

Uncropped versions of the image have a watermark for ‘Grok’—the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot integrated with X, which can create images from prompts.

AI image