From false health claims to misleading statements on immigration, politics and conflict—our expert team delivers impartial, evidence based fact checks.
Immigration
Census data doesn’t support this claim—this percentage is closer to the figure for white British people in London, not white people generally. Read
United States
Posts suggesting that planes did not cause the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings continue to be shared online. This isn’t the case, according to official investigations and independent experts. Read
Environment
Reform UK party chair Lee Anderson claimed there are “thousands of square miles” of solar panels on farmland in the UK. This is a huge overstatement. Read
Environment
A viral video uses AI to falsely show Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg claiming humans have one year of water left. 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
Environment
We’ve looked at how UK energy costs compare internationally, after two different claims from Andy Burnham and Nigel Farage. 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
Politics
In an LBC interview, Matt Goodwin asked for a fact check of his claim about UK family planning aid to Pakistan—so we’ve looked at the numbers. Read
Culture & Society
AI-generated images are being shared on social media alongside claims about anti-migrant protestors. Read
Environment
Water UK estimates that data centres’ average peak demand could rise to 42 million litres of water per day in 2030, but average daily demand is expected to be about half that. 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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