Charlotte Green

News & Online Journalist

Charlotte joined Full Fact in November 2023 as a news & online journalist from her role as a Local Democracy Reporter at the Manchester Evening News. She was previously a senior news reporter with the Manchester Evening News, Rossendale Free Press and Accrington Observer titles.

17 October 2025

Keir Starmer hasn’t just announced mass ‘AI scanner’ surveillance of all UK phones

A video circulating on social media has falsely claimed that your phone’s messages, photos and apps will be viewable at any time under new plans.

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A man holding a mobile phone
14 October 2025

Viral list of ‘last three home secretaries’ is incorrect

A social media post claiming that Suella Braverman and David Lammy are two of the last three home secretaries is misleading.

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A Home Office sign
10 October 2025

A £27 monthly ‘WiFi charge’ is not being introduced in the UK

Contrary to a video being shared on social media, the government is not bringing in the fee for UK residents.

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A photo of a WiFi sign.
7 October 2025

The government is not introducing a 48-hour parking limit

The Department for Transport told Full Fact that these claims, which have been widely shared on social media, are not true.

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A pay and display parking sign.
30 September 2025

Baseless claim that Declan Rice donated millions to Tower Hamlets Council spreads on social media

Posts sharing the claim about the footballer have been shared thousands of times on social media, but the council has confirmed it isn’t true.

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A photo of the Emirates Stadium
30 September 2025

Miscaptioned video shows Turkish football fans, not the Gaza aid flotilla

The footage has been shared widely on social media with misleading captions claiming it depicts the Global Sumud Flotilla.

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The Palestinian flag
30 September 2025

No, people who have more than £500 in the bank will not be placed on a national monitoring register

HMRC told us this is “completely false”.

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UK bank notes
30 September 2025

No, a Met Police video of the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally didn’t show a 2020 protest

The AI chatbot Grok and some social media users wrongly claimed the footage was years old and from an anti-lockdown protest in Trafalgar Square.

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A Metropolitan Police car
28 September 2025

False claim that free cash withdrawals are ending from October shared widely online

Videos claiming that people will have to pay £1.50 to withdraw cash from ATMs from October 1 have been shared online.

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A person withdrawing money from UK ATM
26 September 2025

No, tumours aren’t ‘bags’ of toxins and biopsies don’t release them

Incorrect claims that tumours are part of the body’s healing response to cancer and that biopsies release toxins have been circulating online.

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An image of cancer cells under a microscope.

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