This is how you can verify you are actually being contacted by the government’s Test and Trace service
Tracers will not ask for personal information such as financial details or online logins. 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
No, the Mail didn’t use an old photo of Jeremy Corbyn to claim he wasn’t social distancing on his birthday
The photo is from 2020 as the Mail claimed and first appeared on a Facebook group for canal boat owners. Read
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Can hand sanitiser catch fire in a hot car?
Posts suggest that an image shows the aftermath of a fire started by a bottle of alcohol antibacterial hand gel left in a hot car. Read
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Patent application 060606 does not mention inserting microchips into the body
This patent application appears to be for some sort of wearable activity tracker. Read
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Health
50 French schools have closed due to coronavirus cases, but it is likely these infections happened before schools reopened
It is still too early to know the effect of school openings will have on coronavirus cases in France. Read
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Dominic Cummings’ sister is not director of company that runs the NHS track and trace app
An Alice Cummings is a director at Idox but she’s not his sister and the company has nothing to do with the app. Read
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Health
A 2019 Dominic Cummings blog post was recently edited to explicitly mention a coronavirus
The Wayback Machine website shows the edit being made in mid-April 2020. Read
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Dominic Cummings is not in this picture of the Bullingdon Club
A post shared on social media incorrectly claims Dominic Cummings is pictured as a member of the Bullingdon Club alongside David Cameron and Boris Johnson. Read
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Animals and the origins of the new coronavirus
It is thought that the new coronavirus originated from bats and was transmitted to humans through another animal. Read
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Hydroxychloroquine is not used as a treatment for radiation sickness
There isn’t yet reliable evidence that this drug, or chloroquine, cures Covid-19 patients either. Read
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