Sarah Turnnidge

Fact Checker (former)

Sarah previously worked for HuffPost UK, and before that worked in local newsrooms including the Bristol Post, the Essex Echo and the Thurrock Independent.

19 January 2023

Mice study didn’t show flu vaccine causes strep A

A 2014 study has been repeatedly used to falsely claim that nasal flu vaccines can cause strep A infections.

18 January 2023

Brandon Lewis misleading to compare voter ID to picking up parcel or library book

The MP and former cabinet minister said needing ID to vote was the same as needing it to pick up a parcel at the Post Office.

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16 January 2023

Buzz Aldrin didn’t ‘admit’ he never went to the Moon

A clip from a 2015 interview has been liked more than 40,000 times on Instagram.

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13 January 2023

Claim ‘nine in 10’ teachers voted to strike is misleading

Teaching union NASUWT claimed that nine in 10 of its members voted to strike.

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13 January 2023

Fake appeal to identify woman in ‘coma’ circulating on Facebook

A social media post falsely claims an unidentified young woman was “mugged, stabbed and left for dead on the roadside”.

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13 January 2023

Fake post about child ‘missing’ after baseball practice circulating online

A post about an allegedly missing child named Tyler Miller in Lincoln has been shared on social media using a picture of an Australian girl.

11 January 2023

‘Cor ona virus’ doesn’t mean ‘heart attack virus’ in Latin

A screenshot from Google Translate appears to show the translation, but this isn’t the meaning of the words in Latin.

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9 January 2023

Campervan shared in Facebook post not part of so-called giveaway

A social media post offering a camper van to one lucky winner isn’t quite what it seems.

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6 January 2023

Claim about vaccine deaths wasn’t ‘discussed in House of Commons’

A claim that daily vaccine deaths were higher than Covid-19 deaths was not discussed in the House of Commons.

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5 January 2023

Keir Starmer’s New Year speech fact checked

We’ve taken a look at some of the Labour leader’s claims in his first speech of 2023 covering burglaries, regional inequality and funding for more NHS training.

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Sarah Turnnidge

Fact Checker (former)

Mice study didn’t show flu vaccine causes strep A

Brandon Lewis misleading to compare voter ID to picking up parcel or library book

Buzz Aldrin didn’t ‘admit’ he never went to the Moon

Claim ‘nine in 10’ teachers voted to strike is misleading

Fake appeal to identify woman in ‘coma’ circulating on Facebook

Fake post about child ‘missing’ after baseball practice circulating online

‘Cor ona virus’ doesn’t mean ‘heart attack virus’ in Latin

Campervan shared in Facebook post not part of so-called giveaway

Claim about vaccine deaths wasn’t ‘discussed in House of Commons’

Keir Starmer’s New Year speech fact checked

Full Fact fights bad information