Sian Bayley

Senior News and Online Journalist

Sian joined Full Fact in April 2024 as senior news and online journalist. Prior to that she was news editor at The Bookseller magazine. She has previously worked for the Local Democracy Reporting Service and the Evening Standard.

4 July 2025

Images of girl looking through hole in a wall shared with misleading captions on Facebook

We previously fact checked claims about the video these images come from last November.

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Image of a phone with Facebook open beside a laptop.
1 July 2025

AI-generated video shared with claims it shows Iran attack on US airbase in Qatar

OpenAI’s Sora watermark can be seen in the bottom-right corner of the footage.

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View of Doha, Qatar
30 June 2025

Old easyJet video shared as ‘last moment’ before Air India crash

The video dates back to at least March 2020.

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Back of a seat on an aeroplane with a sign that reads “fasten seat belt while seated”.
30 June 2025

Video of an Air India crew boarding a plane was filmed days before the Ahmedabad crash

The clip was posted on Instagram on 9 June, three days before the disaster.

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Air India planes at an airport
27 June 2025

Footage of a Russian pilgrimage shared with claims it shows Tel Aviv ‘exodus’

The pilgrimage took place days before Israel attacked Iran on 13 June.

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Tel Aviv at night
26 June 2025

When is Palestine Action set to be banned from?

The home secretary has announced plans to proscribe the group under anti-terrorism laws—but there’s been some confusion on social media over when a ban is set to come into force.

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Police officers monitor protesters holding a banner in support of pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action in London this week.
26 June 2025

Video of plane’s cabin shows turbulence on a Pakistani flight, not the Air India crash

The footage features in a montage viewed millions of times on Facebook, which also includes an AI-generated image we have previously debunked.

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India flag
24 June 2025

Photo of Donald Trump embracing Jeffrey Epstein has been edited

The original image actually shows President Trump with his daughter Ivanka in 1995.

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Donald Trump at a campaign rally at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
19 June 2025

No evidence Donald Trump called Elon Musk ‘mediocre’ on Truth Social

A screenshot supposedly showing a post from the US president about Mr Musk has been shared on social media, but the White House says it’s “fake”.

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Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
18 June 2025

Israel-Iran misinformation is circulating online - what to watch out for

AI-generated and miscaptioned footage and images are being shared widely on social media as the conflict continues.

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Onlookers stand in front of a crater at the impact site of an Iranian missile at a bus depot in Herzliya near Tel Aviv on 17 June 2025.

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