Senior News and Online Journalist
Conflict
A video of a large fire filmed from a moving vehicle has been shared online again with claims it shows a “major strike” on an oil facility in Israel.We’ve written … Read
Politics
A video filmed in Sheffield in August 2024 has been reshared online with misleading claims it shows an event in September 2026. Read
Politics
Holborn and St Pancras candidate Sagal Abdi-Wali came to the UK as a child refugee in the 1990s and is now listed as a British citizen on Companies House. Read
World
Dramatic helicopter footage above a glacier has been shared online with false claims it shows the glacier that caused last month’s flood in Nepal. Read
Crime
People are taking the claim at face value, but it seems to have originated from a page calling itself “an obvious satire account”. Read
Culture & Society
A viral graphic making a number of claims about Muslims in the UK has been shared online again, but several are wrong, unevidenced or unlikely to be true given the information we have. Read
World
An AI-generated video has been shared online with claims it shows the recent flood on the Nepal-Tibet border. Read
World
The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) cannot control the weather and had nothing to do with the massive flash flood on the Nepal-Tibet border. Read
Immigration
The London borough’s council says it did not send a letter to residents advising them about asylum seekers moving in. Read
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
