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Politics
In advance of this week’s Budget, we’ve seen a claim that could confuse people coming up again. A post on X (formerly Twitter) from the account of the Conservative party … Read
Politics
Following the news overnight that Workers Party of Britain candidate George Galloway has won the by-election in Rochdale, we’ve seen some potentially confusing claims on social media about Labour’s defence … Read
The video appears to have been posted by someone in Syria, but has since been shared alongside the Palestinian flag. Read
Politics
On Times Radio [1:54] on Wednesday shadow financial secretary to the Treasury James Murray MP said there have been “25 tax rises in this Parliament alone”. It’s not the first … Read
Posts on social media shared an apparent screenshot of an article about Claudia Sheinbaum featuring the edited photo. Read
Health
This was about the hourly rate of basic pay only, for first-year doctors only, last year. Read
The 24-man crew were rescued by a passing merchant vessel following the missile strike, which has been claimed by the Houthi rebel group in Yemen. Read
Several posts on social media share a 2021 BBC headline about how he’d been stripped of this status, but these posts are missing crucial context—that it was reinstated months later. Read
An annotation suggesting that a graph shows tax evasion, avoidance and non-collection costs the government 360 times more than benefit fraud is incorrect. Read
Politics
Today’s Prime Minister’s Questions also saw Labour MP Sarah Owen challenged by the Prime Minister after she claimed the UK had seen “seven consecutive quarters of no growth”. Ms Owen’s … Read
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