Fact checks of content undertaken as part of Full Fact’s work on the Third Party Fact Checking Programme with Facebook
Untrue claims about the authorship and authenticity of Anne Frank’s diary have been circulating online—including that it was written in ballpoint pen after the Second World War. Read
The footage actually shows an explosion at a warehouse in Michigan in the United States. Read
Health
Claims that 7.6 million people are waiting for treatment have resurfaced, but that's the number of courses of treatment people in England are waiting for, with some people waiting for more than one. Read
The video appears to have been posted by someone in Syria, but has since been shared alongside the Palestinian flag. Read
Posts on social media shared an apparent screenshot of an article about Claudia Sheinbaum featuring the edited photo. Read
The 24-man crew were rescued by a passing merchant vessel following the missile strike, which has been claimed by the Houthi rebel group in Yemen. Read
Several posts on social media share a 2021 BBC headline about how he’d been stripped of this status, but these posts are missing crucial context—that it was reinstated months later. Read
An annotation suggesting that a graph shows tax evasion, avoidance and non-collection costs the government 360 times more than benefit fraud is incorrect. Read
Footage taken from a ‘mock scenario’ on YouTube has been circulating online as if it shows a real emergency alert. Read
An image shared with a claim that it shows an Israeli soldier who took her own life uses a photo of a soldier who was killed at a checkpoint in 2022. Read
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