Senior News and Online Journalist
Shopping
Facebook posts claiming Toby Carvery restaurants are giving away a “free carvery for two” or “free Sunday roasts for four” are not genuine.A spokesperson for Toby Carvery’s parent company Mitchells … Read
Crime
We’ve seen AI-generated portraits circulating online claiming to show the two police officers who died in a car crash on the A66 near Middlesbrough on Saturday. Read
World
Old clips taken from earthquakes in Taiwan and the Philippines have been shared as part of a video compilation of the recent Indonesian earthquake. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
In 2017 then-CEO of Starbucks Howard Schultz pledged to hire 10,000 refugees globally, not specifically Muslims. Read
Immigration
A video of a migrant in Tunisia has been altered to make it appear as if he is talking about wanting money and a free house in England. In the original clip he says no such thing. Read
Health
Online posts imply smear tests are dangerous due to the gas used to sterilise medical devices. But swabs disinfected in this way do not pose a danger to patients. Read
Immigration
The viral video clip of a man filming himself swimming with a selfie stick was actually taken in a harbour in El Jadida, Morocco, which is over 250 miles from Spain’s Ceuta. Read
Shopping
Posts claim a Facebook user’s daughter knows about the deal because she works at the department store—but the deal isn’t a real John Lewis one. Read
Politics
There are real pictures of the Prime Minister running near his home in Cheshire but one image circulating online has been edited to include people with cameras and microphones in the foreground. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The figures circulating online resemble wholesale electricity price values we’ve checked before rather than consumer energy costs. Read
