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.
A screengrab of a TikTok video is being shared with false claims it shows Hindus and Sikhs protesting ‘illegal immigration’ in London. Read
A clip is being shared with false claims it is of Iranian censorship of Olympic events at Paris. Read
Europe
A claim being widely shared on social media that cash is not accepted at the 2024 Olympic Games is not true. Read
A misleading clip circulating online wrongly claims to show a prisoner swap between the US and Russia on 1 August. Read
A picture is being shared widely online with a misleading claim it depicts farmers at a beach in Dover attempting to stop small boats. Read
A clip is being shared on social media with false claims it shows Christians filling the streets of Paris in response to a scene from the Olympics opening ceremony. Read
Europe
A claim being shared online says that the new French government has proposed a 90% tax rate on income over €400,000 —but there is currently no ‘French government’ as such, following recent elections. Read
Footage of a protest in which a pro-Palestinian demonstrator pulls down an Israeli flag outside a building is being shared with a misleading caption relating it to the Olympic Games. Read
Many accounts on Facebook have shared pictures of a police officer claiming it shows injuries sustained at Manchester airport, but the pictures are from 2020 and unrelated to the recent incident. Read
A video is being shared online which purports to be a BBC News and Bellingcat investigation, but they made no such report. Read
