Fact checks of content undertaken as part of Full Fact’s work on the Third Party Fact Checking Programme with Facebook
The government modelled the impact of different post-Brexit trade deals on the economy. They expect slower growth under each model, but the exact details remain unclear. Read
This protest sign isn’t from the People’s Vote march, it’s from 2011, and has been edited. Read
We can tell from the plane’s interior that it’s not the same flight. Read
A viral image does show Arminas Pileckas, a 15 year-old Lithuanian student in Sweden who was stabbed at school by a 14 year-old boy from Syria in January 2016. Read
This picture of Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit doesn’t include the ‘lunar overshoes’ he actually wore on the moon. Read
It’s a video from 2016 of an Etihad flight that experienced severe turbulence but went on to land safely. Read
A Facebook post doesn’t show a picture of a young Angela Merkel and Adolf Hitler. Hitler died nine years before Merkel was born. Read
This parasitic dog heart worm spreads via mosquito. Read
The picture is of the Cuban leader with Trudeau’s late brother, Michel. Read
A video circulating online falsely claims to show a mosque being attacked in Pakistan in March 2019. It shows an attack on a church in Egypt in 2013. Read
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