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Fact checks about topical content and debate in UK news
Video of ‘anti-government’ rally in Warsaw mislabelled as pro-Palestine march
The rally took place on 1 October, before the 7 October attacks on Israel.
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Facebook posts show lagoon in Chile, not ‘blood red’ River Nile
The video has been shared across multiple social media platforms with many posts referencing Bible passages.
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Footage does not show an Israeli police officer strangling a Palestinian child to death
The video actually shows an incident at a train station in Sweden in 2015.
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Videos show volcano erupting in Iceland in 2021
The footage is being shared with the implication it shows current events.
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Footage of ‘Palestinians faking injuries’ comes from film shoot in Lebanon
A behind-the-scenes video about a stylised film is being shared with claims it is evidence of Palestinians staging children’s injuries.
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Video of building being blown up is not Gaza parliament
A video of a building in the Gaza Strip being blown up has been claimed to show a Palestinian parliament building, but it does not.
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Around 6.5 million patients in England on hospital waiting lists
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves seems to have mistaken the number of treatments waiting to begin with the number of individuals awaiting treatment.
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Claim Benjamin Netanyahu’s psychiatrist took his own life appears to come from a 2010 satirical blog
The claim has been shared widely online since recent events in Israel and Gaza.
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Video does not show Israeli helicopter shooting civilians at Supernova music festival
Several posts sharing this video on social media claim Israel has admitted to shooting its own civilians.
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Photo of man with swastika tattoo is actually from 2016
A photo Diane Abbott MP claimed was taken at demonstrations in London last week comes from a protest in Bolton seven years earlier.
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