EU staff don’t lose their pensions for criticising the EU
A viral post falsely claims senior EU employees don’t criticise the EU because they’d lose their pensions. Read
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That viral photo of a cloud that looks like a skull was taken from a heavy metal album cover
A picture which shows a skull which looks like a cloud in California has been faked. The cloud is taken from an Iron Maiden album cover. Read
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An Italian politician did not expose her underwear during her swearing-in ceremony
The original photo has been edited to show this. Read
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Claim Brexit is about concealing offshore accounts is baseless
New EU tax laws aim to stop tax avoidance practices by companies. They do not aim to make owners of offshore bank accounts “come clean”. Read
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How much do Lib Dem MPs claim in expenses?
A Facebook post gets the expenses claims of Lib Dem MPs roughly right, but their collective claims are around average for all MPs overall. Read
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This picture shows a model of an extinct amphibian
A picture showing a ‘hammerhead salamander’ shows a model of a diplocaulus, an extinct amphibian. Read
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No evidence for how Supreme Court judges voted in EU referendum
Judges have to stay politically impartial, and we have no idea how they voted. Read
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This video of a crowd booing Boris Johnson is not from the 2019 Conservative party conference
The footage is from 2015. Read
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Pretty Little Thing products can contain lead, but probably not dangerous amounts
The State of California requires companies to declare if they use any chemicals from a toxicity list. Read
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This is a real photo of Margaret Thatcher and Menachem Begin
It was taken in 1979 during his visit to the UK as Israel’s prime minister. Read
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