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Jeff Bezos couldn’t give every Amazon worker £90,000
A bonus suggested by the Labour MP Zarah Sultana would cost more than Mr Bezos’s reported total wealth, let alone any wealth he gained during the pandemic.
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The Earth’s core has not stopped rotating
A study in Nature Geoscience said that the Earth’s inner core might no longer be spinning faster than the rest of the planet—not that it might have stopped spinning altogether.
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Lines reportedly seen in the sky around Heathrow are contrails, not chemtrails
A social media post has shared a number of images showing vapour lines from aeroplanes in the sky, and claims that these are in fact “chemtrails”. They aren’t—they’re contrails.
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‘Kraken’ Covid-19 subvariant linked to baseless claims about 5G harms
A social media post claims that 5G is “harming and killing people”.
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Facebook offer of free sausage roll and drink at Greggs is not genuine
A post shared hundreds of times on social media is not from the bakery chain.
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Haringey Council says cost of Black Boy Lane name change ‘highly unlikely to exceed £100,000’
Claims it has cost £186,000 appear to stem from a 2021 estimate made by the council.
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Large asteroid is not set to collide with the Earth
NASA says the object is small and will miss the planet by 2,500 miles.
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Video does not show Rishi Sunak’s staff celebrating Hindu festival in Downing Street
The footage was filmed in Canada, not London, and features officials from Ontario.
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Posts about a missing man with Alzheimer’s are hoaxes
These posts claim that a man has gone missing in several different UK locations, but use photographs of different men from the US.
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Claim trans activists found Aretha Franklin song offensive based on joke tweet
Despite initially sharing media coverage of its tweet, the account then claimed it was a parody.
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Argos £3 AirPod Max deal is fake
A Facebook post claims the deal is related to Argos being fined for not paying tax, which is also not true.
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Photo does not show mine worker with zero body fat
The image shows a professional fitness model with very low body fat.
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