Shopping
Fake Shein offers circulate on social media
False deals from popular retailers like Shein are common on Facebook. Read
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Politics
No, phone calls longer than 10 minutes will not be automatically recorded from 2026
Ofcom confirmed there are no such requirements on telecoms providers. Read
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Immigration
Labour hasn’t ‘halved’ the number of asylum hotels
In recent days we’ve seen a number of inaccurate and misleading claims about Labour’s record on closing asylum hotels. Read
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Science & Technology
International Space Station video has been altered to make it look like a fake
A ‘technician’ drinking and waving in normal gravity has been added to a genuine video from 2019. Read
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United States
Edited image of Donald and Ivanka Trump with Jeffrey Epstein circulates again
The misleading image combines two different photographs. Read
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Shopping
Currys £5 PlayStation offer is fake
The retailer has confirmed that this offer is not genuine. Read
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United States
Image of European leaders waiting in White House corridor isn’t real
A picture that appears to show the French president and other European politicians waiting to speak to Donald Trump offers a number of clues that it was made using AI. Read
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Hoaxes
Was a marine animal trainer called ‘Jessica Radcliffe’ killed by an orca?
This claim has been shared on social media recently, but there’s no evidence such an attack actually happened, and many images and videos supposedly showing the incident were created with AI. Read
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Conflict
No Israeli officer has been arrested in the Netherlands for war crimes
Social media posts are sharing a photo from a 2016 Daily Mail article about Newcastle with the implication it shows the officer being “hauled in” by Dutch police. Read
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Shopping
John Lewis is not selling car seat strollers for £3
Posts promoting supposed offers that seem too good to be true are very common on sites like Facebook. Read
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