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In an episode of BBC’s “Strong Message Here” podcast, the writer Armando Iannucci claimed tax fraud is “30 times larger” than benefit fraud.

This isn’t correct. The most recent official estimates suggest tax fraud costs the government less than benefit fraud. Alternative, higher estimates also don’t support the claim.

Fraud figures

A recent Prime Minister’s Questions featured seemingly contrasting claims about the prevalence of mobile phone bans in schools.

There’s no conclusive answer to the question of how many schools “ban” phones - it depends what you count as a ‘ban’ - but we’ve taken a look at what the data we have shows.

Phone policies

Social media posts have claimed a video circulating online shows aerial footage of devastation caused by a recent earthquake in Myanmar.

This footage isn’t real, even though it appears very realistic. It was most likely created with AI.

Myanmar earthquake