This post telling healthy people to stop getting tested is full of inaccuracies
The post cites inaccurate claims about how testing and virus levels are measured. 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
This video makes a number of inaccurate claims about the Covid-19 pandemic
We have seen similar claims before about Pirbright, Serco, and the Test and Trace system. Read
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WhatsApp messages about a video called “India is doing it” are a hoax
The video and the hack mentioned in the message are not real. Read
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Royal Navy sailors died while preventing the slave trade, but not tens of thousands
Modern and contemporary records of naval deaths are in the low thousands. Read
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There almost certainly aren’t as many as two million unauthorised immigrants in the UK
A recent estimate put the figure between 800,000 and 1.2 million. Read
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This comparison of the cost of the Irish and UK contact tracing systems is misleading
The Irish system will cost €700 million for the first year, not £773,000 which is just the cost of developing the app. Read
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Misinformation Toolkit
How to spot misleading images online
Here are examples of image-based misinformation we’ve encountered in our work, and advice on how to verify things you may encounter every day. Read
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Shamima Begum is not back in the UK
This claim regularly reappears and has always been false. Read
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This viral post on benefits and tax avoidance is inaccurate
It underestimates the spending on benefits for people seeking asylum and uses a disputed estimate of the tax gap to talk about tax avoidance. Read
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Fact checkers need to work together to create better models for distributing our fact checks online
Partnerships with internet platforms are vital for fact checkers to tackle misinformation at a global scale. Read
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