Fact checks of content undertaken as part of Full Fact’s work on the Third Party Fact Checking Programme with Facebook
Brighton & Hove Albion football club has confirmed the account which shared the story is not associated with the manager. Read
MPs can claim £25 for food when they have to spend a night away for parliamentary business. Read
A clip circulating on social media claiming to show Israeli helicopters being shot down is actually taken from a video game. Read
The video has been shared across multiple social media platforms with this false claim. Read
A Facebook post links to a fake Argos website where people can supposedly “place an order”. Read
A recirculated photograph showing the safety cap still attached to the needle was taken prior to the injection being administered. Read
Claims that an image shared by Rishi Sunak’s X account was Photoshopped are wide of the mark. Read
Health
Tests with two different wells for samples that can detect three different infections do not prove the infections are the same. Read
The video, which has USA Today’s logo and style, has been shared across multiple social media platforms. Read
Health
A recently shared clip of a documentary about Covid-19 vaccines describes Australian research into a vaccine using fragments of HIV. This vaccine was never rolled out, and didn’t cause HIV infections. Read
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