Fact checks of content undertaken as part of Full Fact’s work on the Third Party Fact Checking Programme with Facebook
The claims first appeared in the Dorset Eye and now say they may be satire, but some people seem to have believed them. Read
Crime
If you can’t talk but need the police, you can dial 55 when prompted on a 999 call from a mobile. Read
Conspiracy theorists have been peddling 5G myths for a while now, we’ve only just started to listen. Read
The claim that three nurses had died in a Swansea ITU, presumably from Covid-19, was false. Read
The so-called 5G tower is actually Margate lighthouse, and there’s no evidence 5G can hurt you. Read
The hospital trust confirmed to us that it wasn’t filmed at St Mary’s and fact checkers have found it was filmed in Ecuador. Read
A video sent by a reader was claimed to show Covid-19 patients lying on the floor of St Mary’s Hospital, London. The video was actually filmed in two different Madrid hospitals in mid-March. Read
Health
“Rainbows for Nightingale” was an unofficial appeal for art in the post that spread widely on social media. Read
A viral post claiming this has been debunked by McDonald’s. Read
Health
Fake advice that five helicopters are about spray the streets with disinfectant has spread all over the world Read
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