A ‘Guardian’ headline about the Insulate Britain protests is fake
The newspaper did not report that a protester was delayed in traffic caused by another Insulate Britain protest. Read
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Leo Benedictus
Journalist
Leo joined Full Fact in January 2020. For 15 years, he worked freelance as a feature writer for the Guardian, Prospect, the New Scientist and others, making maps of immigration, explaining citizens’ assemblies and debunking superfoods. He has a fondness for science and statistics. He also writes novels.
Crime
Most police have not been found guilty of sexual misconduct
This claim comes from confusion over another statistic, about the proportion of those in one force found to have committed sexual misconduct who kept their jobs. Read
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No evidence Jodie Foster said that attacking the rich was ‘self-defence’
The real source of this comment is uncertain, but it may have originated on Twitter in 2014. Read
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We do know that Covid-19 vaccines work
A video of Bill Gates saying we don’t know whether vaccines work comes from July 2020, when the results of the Covid-19 vaccine trials had not yet been published. Read
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Chevening isn’t 'taxpayer-funded' in the usual sense
It’s paid for by a public trust—but that trust is exempt from income tax and appears to have received at least some taxpayer money in the past. Read
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A video does not show anti-Rothschild protests
It shows a demonstration against pandemic rules outside the parliament building in Bern, Switzerland. Read
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Health
Vaccines do not raise your risk of catching Covid
The headline of a Daily Sceptic article misinterpreted the data in a PHE report— even though the report specifically warned against this. Read
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Health
Covid-19 is almost certainly killing more people than suicide
A Facebook post that suicide deaths are higher provides no evidence. And what evidence we have suggests the opposite. Read
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Health
The government did not give £37 billion to Serco
This is the total budget for two years of Test and Trace. Not all of it was spent, and only a fraction went to Serco. Read
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Health
An influencer muddled his maths on vaccines for children
The JCVI says that the Covid vaccines would probably do marginally more good than harm, even for healthy children. Read
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