No evidence Rishi Sunak plans to pay people £75,000 to leave the UK
This claim is being shared widely on TikTok, but appears to have come from a parody account. Read
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Social media
Fact checks of content undertaken as part of Full Fact’s work on the Third Party Fact Checking Programme with Facebook
The DVLA has not confirmed it owns your car
Thousands of people have shared a clip on Facebook claiming the DVLA said it owns people’s vehicles. Read
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America wasn’t ‘sold to five billionaires’ in 1927
The article was first shared by satirical news site The Onion in 2005. Read
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No evidence Russian missile strike hit ‘NATO logistics hub’ in Ukraine
There is no evidence that a video shared in the aftermath of a Russian missile strike in Odessa, Ukraine, shows damage to a ‘NATO logistics hub’. Read
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Thousands share edited image of Rishi Sunak on social media
The image shows the Prime Minister standing in front of a Morrisons sign, but certain letters are covered so it spells ‘moron’. Read
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French planes did not accidentally create the Russian flag during a display
The arrangement of the colours appears wrong because of the angle from which the footage was shot. Read
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Video of carpark argument is staged
The sketch of an argument in a car park has been shared on social media as if it’s a genuine scene. Read
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Turbulence video not from Singapore Airlines flight
A video is being shared online alongside reports of “severe turbulence” on a Singapore Airlines flight on which one person died. But the footage is unrelated and dates back to 2019. Read
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TikTok has not been banned across France
It’s been banned in the overseas territory of New Caledonia, amid recent riots, but not on personal devices elsewhere. Read
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Old footage of Norwegian ship exploding misattributed to Red Sea attack
A video which claims to show an American destroyer being struck by a missile has been online for at least ten years. Read
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