No evidence Diane Abbott said quote about ‘the problem with Britain’
There’s no record of her having said the problem with Britain is “white people”. 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
Police quash Facebook rumours of missing boy named Brayden
Multiple police forces have confirmed there is no one with that name missing in their areas. Read
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Installing defibrillators in schools is not proof that Covid-19 vaccines are unsafe
Defibrillators were being installed in schools prior to the pandemic and there is no evidence linking vaccines to cardiac arrest. Read
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Police Scotland says it hasn’t renamed paedophiles as ‘minor attracted people’
It clarified its use of the phrase after it appeared in a report produced by the force. Read
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Tilted perspective weather maps are no longer used by the BBC
A Facebook post which claims TV has “shrunk Scotland and grown England” by changing its weather maps shows an image of graphics which were replaced in 2018. Read
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Aspen card does not give asylum seekers £175 a week
Not every asylum seeker is eligible for support payments, and those that are receive much less than has been claimed on Facebook. Read
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BBC didn’t ‘censor’ footage of Brexit march
Thousands of people have shared claims that the BBC censored footage of a People’s Vote march. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
How wages and pensions in the UK and France compare
A tweet shared more than 5,000 times makes a number of comparisons between France and the UK, many of which need context or are not quite right. Read
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Lines reportedly seen in the sky around Heathrow are contrails, not chemtrails
A social media post has shared a number of images showing vapour lines from aeroplanes in the sky, and claims that these are in fact “chemtrails”. They aren’t—they’re contrails. Read
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‘Kraken’ Covid-19 subvariant linked to baseless claims about 5G harms
A social media post claims that 5G is “harming and killing people”. Read
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