From false health claims to misleading statements on immigration, politics and conflict—our expert team delivers impartial, evidence based fact checks.
A Facebook post falsely claims a scheme that monitors the actions of businesses and citizens and uses financial sanctions as punishments will soon be used in Canada. Read
A social media post incorrectly claims that a letter written to The Times was from a doctor who died in 2016. Read
Crime
It is not around 7%, as the Safeguarding Minister claimed. This is the figure for women. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
A Facebook post claiming England has kept Scottish taxes ignores the money spent by the UK government for or in Scotland. Read
Health
A video on Facebook shares several common types of harmful misinformation about Covid-19 and the vaccines. Read
Environment
The entrepreneur said both his organisation and the UK government were contributing £400 million each to a new fund. Read
Health
There are things to take into account when you see UK data compared with other countries. Read
Health
A spokesperson for the supermarket giant told us it hadn’t sold fireworks since 2019. Read
The government confirmed that proving vaccination status continues to be an option, rather than a definite plan for December. Read
An Instagram video makes a number of bizarre claims about NASA manipulating footage from space and its Apollo programme. Read
Fact checking claims made by politicians, public figures and viral online content can give you the full picture backed by the evidence.
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