Covid-19 is not the same as a common cold
Coronaviruses are a family of viruses which include those which cause the common cold, SARS and Covid-19. 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
Post suggests American WW2 prisoners were British soldiers
A photo of two emaciated men are American civilian prisoners of war, not British soldiers. Read
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Rusty hand sanitiser stand doesn’t prove hand gel is poison
The stand probably rusted from exposure to water in the gel. Read
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Fake Mirror article about oil investors on Dragons’ Den looks suspicious
An article designed to look like The Mirror claims British citizens can make £7,000 a day from home by investing in oil Read
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Everything you need to know about the Home Office’s ‘eyebrow’ spending
Clue: it wasn’t really on eyebrows, it was on PPE. Read
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Lateral flow tests are not unsafe
Posts on social media are wrong to warn that the ethylene oxide used to sterilise some Covid-19 tests makes them dangerous. Read
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House price growth has outstripped income growth—but not by much
A chart on Facebook compares two different measures, which makes the rise in income look smaller than it was. Read
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Viral instagram video falsely claims Covid-19 was planned
A video falsely claims Covid-19 has been planned and its vaccine kills. Read
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Police confirm officers did not suffer broken bones at Bristol protest
Avon and Somerset police initially said one officer had a broken arm and another had broken ribs. Read
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NASA did not fake a picture of Mars
Someone else faked the picture, then claimed that NASA did it. Read
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