Facebook posts appear to overstate payments for parliamentarians
Generally MPs are paid salaries and members of the House of Lords are entitled to attendance allowances, but none of them receive both. Read
Fact checks of content undertaken as part of Full Fact’s work on the Third Party Fact Checking Programme with Facebook
Generally MPs are paid salaries and members of the House of Lords are entitled to attendance allowances, but none of them receive both. Read
The supermarket confirmed to Full Fact that this is not a real offer. Read
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The picture has been debunked many times, and there are clues that it was created with Artificial Intelligence. Read
The same picture has been posted in community groups for different locations across the UK and abroad. Read
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A video which appears to show a large statue of Jesus Christ under construction in Washington is fake and likely an AI-creation. Read
A claim which has been shared widely on social media is not correct. Read
Mr Ronaldo does not reference Palestinians in the original footage. Read
The same picture has been posted in Facebook community groups for different locations across the UK. Read
Misleading claims that the footage showed an incident in the UK have been circulating on social media. Read
The £521,525 referenced in social media posts is the amount of food and drinks spending over £500 expensed by the entire Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office over a four month period. Read
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