Fact checks of content undertaken as part of Full Fact’s work on the Third Party Fact Checking Programme with Facebook
A photograph claiming to show the Dynamo Kyiv football team in army uniform actually shows members of a nationalist group in Ukraine. Read
Italian fact checkers have found no evidence the shot was broadcast by TGCOM24. Read
They can only show that the company that registered the code was based there. Read
There’s plenty of evidence that the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not napalm, as a Facebook post claims. Read
The picture, which went viral online, was designed by the Ukrainian authorities to encourage people to tear down road signs. Read
Posts on Facebook claim that photographs of a Ukrainian woman injured after an airstrike near Kharkiv actually depict events from 2018. This isn’t the case, and the images are genuine. Read
A video shared on social media claims to show an explosion and collapsed buildings in Ukraine, but it actually shows an explosion in Lebanon in 2020. Read
The video appeared online almost a month before the Russian invasion. Read
The developers of Arma 3 confirmed that the footage came from a modified version of their game. Read
A map being shared on social media suggests potential sites of Russian nuclear strikes across the UK, but the original estimates are now 50 years old, and don't give any reliable indication of the sit Read
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