Fact checks of content undertaken as part of Full Fact’s work on the Third Party Fact Checking Programme with Facebook
A post supposedly shared by Rupert Lowe MP calling on the deputy Prime Minister to ‘remove teaching any sign language in the UK’ was created by a satirical account. Read
The images have been shared into numerous local Facebook groups with false claims they show a recently rescued dog. Read
The Facebook post makes a number of misleading claims about taxes in the UK, and has been shared over 132,000 times. Read
These posts have been circulating since at least 2017, but contain claims that are either unevidenced or false. Read
A video which is being shared widely online by people thinking it is genuine is an example of ‘rage bait’; a post designed to make people angry to drive engagement. Read
It was the international charity BBC Media Action, not the BBC as a whole, which got 8% of its funding from the United States Agency for International Development in 2023/24. Read
The clip being shared, which appears to be an E! News report, is in fact a fabrication. It was not published by the news and entertainment channel. Read
Thousands of people have liked posts claiming to be from the restaurant chain and offering free meals. Read
Wetherspoons has confirmed that no such offer from them exists. Read
Health
A viral clip from a BBC documentary shows that an HIV protein was used in a Covid vaccine trial, but fails to mention the vaccine itself was scrapped soon afterwards. Read
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