Fact checks of content undertaken as part of Full Fact’s work on the Third Party Fact Checking Programme with Facebook
A clip is being shared on social media with false claims it shows Christians filling the streets of Paris in response to a scene from the Olympics opening ceremony. Read
Many of these claims are either wrong or unevidenced, but the viral claims have been shared since 2017. Read
Europe
A claim being shared online says that the new French government has proposed a 90% tax rate on income over €400,000 —but there is currently no ‘French government’ as such, following recent elections. Read
The 4.6% figure in a graphic being shared referred to the combined total for several candidates, not that they had each got 4.6% vote share. Read
The organisation told Full Fact the posters weren’t produced or published by Amnesty International. Read
Footage of a protest in which a pro-Palestinian demonstrator pulls down an Israeli flag outside a building is being shared with a misleading caption relating it to the Olympic Games. Read
Many accounts on Facebook have shared pictures of a police officer claiming it shows injuries sustained at Manchester airport, but the pictures are from 2020 and unrelated to the recent incident. Read
A video is being shared online which purports to be a BBC News and Bellingcat investigation, but they made no such report. Read
A claim that an image of the presidential candidate shows his injured ear healed “like magic” is false. It comes from a video of him golfing with Bryson DeChambeau filmed before the incident. Read
Social media posts claiming Ms Harris is not eligible because she is not a “natural born citizen” have been shared widely in recent days. Read
Fact checking claims made by politicians, public figures and viral online content can give you the full picture backed by the evidence.
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