Fact checks of content undertaken as part of Full Fact’s work on the Third Party Fact Checking Programme with Facebook
Politics
A post re-circulating on Facebook appears to be based on something that Naz Shah reposted from a parody account then quickly deleted in 2017—she has said the sharing of the post was a “genuine accident”. Read
Conflict
A 2017 video of protests in Iran is being shared on social media with misleading claims that it shows recent anti-regime unrest linked to the Israel-Iran conflict. Read
World
Social media users have been sharing the clip with captions claiming it shows the moment before the crash in Ahmedabad, India, but it is old and unrelated footage. Read
Conflict
The clip has been widely shared on social media in recent days amid airstrikes between Israel and Iran, but it’s not real footage. Read
Conflict
The video has been horizontally flipped. Read
Conflict
The picture appears to be a screenshot of a TikTok video, which has the hallmarks of being generated with artificial intelligence. Read
World
A picture which appears to be of the recent Air India plane crash has been circulating online, but experts say it has been generated by artificial intelligence. Read
World
The clip has been shared with claims it shows footage from London-bound Air India flight that crashed in Ahmedabad on 12 June, but it actually dates back to January 2023. Read
Conflict
The footage dates back to October 2024 and does not show Iranian retaliation after Israel’s attack in June 2025. Read
Shopping
Despite claims on Facebook to the contrary, Lego has confirmed these are not genuine Lego offers. Read
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