Immigration
Scottish council corrects outdated asylum seeker support figure
Stirling Council’s website wrongly claimed asylum seekers in catered accommodation receive a weekly payment of £8.86. Read
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United States
Edited video of South Tower on 9/11 circulates again
An altered video of the South Tower attack is circulating again, implying no plane hit the building on 9/11. But the video has been edited to remove the plane. Read
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Education
Apprenticeship starts have risen—not fallen—under this government
In a debate in the Commons, Conservative shadow minister Bradley Thomas compared data for the latest nine-month period with the whole year of 2023/24, making it sound like apprenticeships had fallen. Read
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Science & Technology
No, the NASA astronauts killed in the 1986 Challenger disaster are not still alive
Social media posts are being shared promoting conspiracy theories that the 1986 space shuttle crash was faked and that deceased crew members are out living secret lives. Read
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World
Fake image of Nepal house goes viral
A widely seen image of a house that survived the floods in Nepal is actually an AI-generated fake. Read
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Health
False claims Bill Gates wrote an article on depopulating the earth with ‘forced vaccines’ recirculate
Several incorrect posts claiming that Mr Gates wrote an article about using vaccinations to control the population have been shared online. Read
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Immigration
London’s white population has not ‘plummeted to 34%’
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
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United States
Baseless 9/11 claim recirculates on 25th anniversary of the attacks
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
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Environment
Solar panels do not currently occupy ‘thousands of square miles’ of farmland
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
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Environment
Clip of Mark Zuckerberg saying humans will run out of water is deepfake
A viral video uses AI to falsely show Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg claiming humans have one year of water left. Read
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