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Posts shared on Facebook suggest the closure of McDonald’s in Iceland was due to a boycott, but the branches closed in 2009 because of the country’s financial crisis. Read
A clip being shared on social media of lightning dramatically striking the ground has been online since before Hurricane Milton made landfall. Read
One year on from the Online Safety Act becoming law, the vast majority of misinformation tackled by fact checkers remains out of its reach. Read
The image is being shared on social media with claims it shows a plane landing at Beirut International Airport during Israeli airstrikes. Read
Health
Several posts claim that studies prove that coriander removes varying percentages of heavy metals from the body. This is not the case. Read
The Atlantic has confirmed such an article has never been published by them. Read
United States
A social media clip has been edited to seem as if Ms Harris said Mr Biden is “unstable”, when her remarks were actually about Donald Trump. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
A number of figures supposedly showed the size of the ‘black hole’ in the government’s spending plans had been circulating ahead of the Autumn Budget. We took a look at what they actually mean. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
It’s been a key government claim since the election and featured heavily in the Budget - but what does it actually mean? Read
The picture is actually more than a year old. Read
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