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Politics
Posts being shared on Facebook detail a fabricated exchange between the Prime Minister and Restore Britain MP Rupert Lowe in parliament. Read
Conflict
A clip circulating online claims to show clashes at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. But it is actually footage of a July 2025 incident at a cinema in Jerusalem. Read
Politics
A statement supposedly posted by the Prime Minister on X saying that American forces must leave UK airbases within 48 hours if the US withdraws from NATO is fake. Read
Conflict
The video, which has been recently shared on social media with claims it shows Dubai’s international airport on fire, is actually over five years old. Read
Conflict
A fake AI-generated image is being shared with false claims that Iranian missiles brought down a US-Israeli spy satellite. There are no reports of this happening. Read
Conflict
A video circulating online with false claims it depicts an Iranian missile exploding in Tel Aviv is actually old footage of a 2016 warehouse fire in California. Read
Conflict
The video has been shared with unevidenced claims that Benjamin Netanyahu’s brother Iddo was killed in a recent attack by Iran. Read
Politics
A video in which Lord Peter Mandelson appears to be wearing a dressing gown during his arrest last month has been shared on social media. But the footage has been edited—he was really fully dressed. Read
Conflict
Pictures being shared on social media which appear to show US Delta Force soldiers captured by Iran are AI-generated. There are no credible reports of any US troops being captured in Iran. Read
Conflict
A video of a burning high-rise building is circulating with false claims it shows a CIA base in Dubai after an Iranian strike. But it’s actually an old clip of an apartment fire. Read
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