The House of Lords’ daily allowance is about what Universal Credit pays in a month—but peers don’t get it every day
This is the daily allowance for doing parliamentary work in the House. However, not all Lords can claim it, or do. Read
Fact checks of content undertaken as part of Full Fact’s work on the Third Party Fact Checking Programme with Facebook
This is the daily allowance for doing parliamentary work in the House. However, not all Lords can claim it, or do. Read
This list was supposed to describe the crimes of members of the US Congress more than 20 years ago, and even then it wasn’t verifiable. Read
A longer version says it shows the Kenyan army. Read
Claims that the video shows a ‘dead body in Ukraine’ smoking are false. Read
A Facebook page that’s less than a month old claims those who share or comment on a post will receive a £50 box of food. Read
The post claims to recount an interaction between a US soldier and a child in the aftermath of the bombing of Nagasaki in 1945. Read
It lists reported adverse events, which may not have been caused by the vaccine. It also concludes that its data raises no safety concerns. Read
A Facebook post made it look like the fuel price is rising faster than oil, because it used fuel prices that were not adjusted for inflation. Read
The clearly-edited image has been shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook. Read
A Facebook post says it’s ‘UK Area 51’, but it’s actually a decommissioned nuclear bunker that has been shown to the outside world many times. Read
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