Fact checks of content undertaken as part of Full Fact’s work on the Third Party Fact Checking Programme with Facebook
The footage was taken when Mr Starmer was Leader of the Opposition and the landlord was unhappy with Labour’s response to government lockdown measures. Read
The article never appeared on the real BBC News website and the accompanying image of Mr Starmer with a black eye is fake. Read
Barcodes which start ‘729’ continue to be used by the Israeli member organisation of the body which assigns barcodes, but that doesn’t mean products with that code were necessarily made in Israel. Read
The pictures were likely created with artificial intelligence and there’s no evidence at all for the claim that the US Vice President used to be a sex worker. Read
This claim has gone viral amid a debate over gender eligibility surrounding Imane Khelif’s gold medal win in boxing at the Paris Olympics. Read
Greater Manchester Police has confirmed no-one was stabbed. Read
A post shared on social media lists a number of measures supposedly taken during “Week 1” of the Starmer government, several of which are inaccurate. Read
A screengrab of a TikTok video is being shared with false claims it shows Hindus and Sikhs protesting ‘illegal immigration’ in London. Read
A clip is being shared with false claims it is of Iranian censorship of Olympic events at Paris. Read
The newspaper confirmed that it has never published any such article. Read
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