Crime
Crime is difficult to measure and that makes it easy to be alarmed by newspaper reports that might not tell the whole story. We look behind the headline figures and put them in context
Australian grandmother did not shoot two rapists
A Facebook post claiming an Australian grandmother shot off the testicles of two men who raped her granddaughter is not true.
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The World Economic Forum does not have its own paramilitary force
An Instagram post depicting a police officer wearing a WEF badge is not proof the forum has its own force.
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Man wasn’t jailed only for staring at a woman on the train
A Spectator article recently claimed that a man had been sentenced to 22 weeks in prison after “continuously staring” at a woman.
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West Yorkshire Police is not investigating the Covid-19 vaccine programme
Numerous Facebook posts incorrectly claim the Covid-19 vaccine programme is being investigated by West Yorkshire Police.
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Met Police has not launched an investigation into the Covid-19 vaccine programme
Posts on Facebook falsely claim that the Metropolitan Police is investigating the Covid-19 vaccine programme.
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Priti Patel’s tweet on police funding doesn’t account for inflation
A graph claiming to show a large increase in police funding fails to take into account inflation.
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Reports Emma Tustin was hospitalised after inmates force fed her salt are not true
A Facebook post falsely claims Emma Tustin, who killed Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, has been hospitalised after being forced to eat 79 packets of salt.
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Hunt for child who told man ‘you’re not my dad’ was false alarm
Police have called off the search—but two newspapers only updated their websites to reflect this after Full Fact contacted them.
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Police have not said a West Midlands teen was "murdered" with a Covid-19 vaccine
A video on Facebook wrongly claims police have “agreed” that a teenager was killed with a Covid-19 vaccine
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What do we know so far about reports of ‘spiking’ with needles?
Police across the UK are investigating more than 50 reports of incidents involving some form of injection.
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