Fact checks of content undertaken as part of Full Fact’s work on the Third Party Fact Checking Programme with Facebook
Science & Technology
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
World
A widely seen image of a house that survived the floods in Nepal is actually an AI-generated fake. Read
Immigration
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
United States
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
Environment
A viral video uses AI to falsely show Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg claiming humans have one year of water left. Read
Crime
People are taking the claim at face value, but it seems to have originated from a page calling itself “an obvious satire account”. Read
Culture & Society
A viral graphic making a number of claims about Muslims in the UK has been shared online again, but several are wrong, unevidenced or unlikely to be true given the information we have. Read
Culture & Society
AI-generated images are being shared on social media alongside claims about anti-migrant protestors. Read
World
Online posts falsely claim the Nepal flood was a hoax because early reports repeatedly cited the number 33. Read
Politics
A photo showing the home secretary wearing a keffiyeh as a hijab has been shared on social media, but it features a SynthID watermark that shows it was generated with OpenAI tools. Read
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