Emergency services can’t use the numbers on street lamps to find you
A social media post wrongly suggests that numbering on street lamps will let emergency services know exactly where you are. 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
World leaders will not get Tesla cars at COP26
Jaguar Land Rover electric cars will be supplied, and any generators required for charging them will be run on recycled cooking oil. Read
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Social media post appears to overstate risk of vaccine blood clots
A Facebook post implies the risk of developing a blood clot or heart problem from a Covid-19 vaccine outweighs the benefits. Read
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Health
No evidence you shouldn’t breastfeed after Covid-19 vaccination
An Instagram post takes a tragic story of an infant’s death and uses it to make baseless claims about vaccine safety. Read
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Viral image doesn’t show an elephant fish
An image being widely shared on social media looks decidedly different from recognised species of elephant fish. Read
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A ‘Guardian’ headline about the Insulate Britain protests is fake
The newspaper did not report that a protester was delayed in traffic caused by another Insulate Britain protest. Read
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Fungi growing ‘out of’ dead possum’s hand is staged
This type of fungi does grow around decaying carcasses but the photographer says he staged the picture. Read
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No, the ‘P’ on your passport does not stand for ‘peasant’
A Facebook post falsely claims that the capital ‘P’ which appears on passports under “type” stands for “peasants”. Read
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Health
Daily Mail report on GPs seeing fewer patients on Fridays needs more context
There are some important caveats to figures showing GP appointments drop off later in the week. Read
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Thousands of sea turtles did not hatch on Indian beach this week
A Facebook post falsely suggests that hundreds of thousands of sea turtles hatched at a beach in India. Read
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