Politics
No, the government isn’t banning central heating after 9pm
Videos being shared on Facebook falsely claim the government is introducing a 9pm cut-off for using your central heating, with people who breach it at risk of fines. Read
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Politics
Videos being shared on Facebook falsely claim the government is introducing a 9pm cut-off for using your central heating, with people who breach it at risk of fines. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
A video circulating online wrongly claims pensioners could lose 20% of their money if they don’t withdraw their pensions within two days. Read
Environment
A viral clip circulating online that seems to show the hurricane filmed from a plane was created using artificial intelligence. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Videos circulating on social media are spreading misleading claims about supposed changes to people’s bus passes. Read
Politics
Social media videos, one of which has been viewed 350,000 times, falsely claim that new laws imposing curfews are coming into force soon. Read
Culture & Society
Many versions of the picture retain the ‘Grok’ watermark—the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot integrated with X, which creates images from prompts. Read
Crime
Claims that most of those arrested were counter-protesters don’t tally with what the police have said. Read
Politics
The picture was shared after the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally—but it isn’t real. Read
United States
The fake quote is attributed to President Trump in the 1990s, and has been debunked many times. Read
World
The video is circulating widely online with claims it shows a huge protest “for Palestine”—but it isn’t real. Read
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