There is no upper limit for how much MPs can claim to cover heating costs
A post on Facebook claims MPs can claim ‘up to’ £3,400 for utility bills. 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
Dr Anthony Fauci has not been arrested by Special Forces
This is a complete fabrication. Dr Fauci has appeared in public since the claim was made. Read
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Iceland isn’t giving away free food
A viral post claims liking and sharing it is enough to get £35 of free food from the Iceland supermarket chain. The official Iceland page makes no reference to this offer. Read
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Nadine Dorries didn’t say ‘food doesn’t grow on trees’
A viral image claims Culture Minister Nadine Dorries said ‘every family needs to live within their means’ because ‘food doesn’t grow on trees’. This is a fake tweet. Read
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Health
Boots isn’t selling lateral flow tests ‘the taxpayer has already paid for’
It’s been falsely claimed on social media that the retailer has been ‘given’ taxpayer funded Covid-19 tests to sell back to the public. Read
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Health
The UK’s Covid ‘survival rate’ is lower than 99.972%
Roughly 99.76% of the population of the UK have not died with Covid as the underlying cause, which is another way of saying that about 0.24% have. Read
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Single occupancy council tax discount can’t be revoked if you don’t take in Ukrainian refugees
Claims on Twitter and Facebook say that an elderly man in a London borough was told by his council he could be forced to take in a Ukrainian family. Read
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Historic claim on refugee and pensioner incomes is still wrong
The post also compares Germany’s maximum state pension to the UK’s. Germany’s state pensions are difficult to compare to ours as theirs are based on income whilst the UK’s isn’t. Read
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WEF didn’t say that property ownership would become ‘unsustainable’
A screenshot of a tweet claims Klaus Schwab said eating meat and property ownership are unsustainable. Read
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Claims about German Test and Trace costs completely wrong
The costs of German and UK Covid-19 testing and tracing programmes cannot be easily compared. Read
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