Daily Archives: August 25, 2021

A Facebook post suggests thousands of unvaccinated doctors and nurses will lose their jobs for refusing a Covid-19 vaccine.  The context of the post seems to be an upcoming public consultation which will inform the government’s decision on whether all healthcare staff should be vaccinated. NHS England said in July that this consultation will begin… Read More »

A video on Facebook, seen thousands of times, claims that signing a birth certificate and registering a birth means a child has been signed over to the state and creates a “fictitious legal entity”.  The video goes on to claim that the “legal entity” can be separated from the “flesh and blood” person, meaning obligations… Read More »

A Facebook post includes what appears to be a screenshot of a website listing Covid-19 vaccine side effects recorded by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) Yellow Card scheme. Text in the post says: “A few people asked about the yellow card system/scheme yesterday … Here is [sic] the numbers in black and… Read More »

A Facebook post says the CEO of Pfizer, Albert Bourla, doesn’t think he needs to be vaccinated because “he’s healthy”. This isn’t true. In December, Mr Bourla gave an interview on CNBC where he said he didn’t want to receive his company’s vaccine ahead of others who needed it more.  When asked when he would… Read More »

A video posted on Facebook by Chris Preddie OBE claims Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said he doesn’t need a Covid-19 vaccine.  The video includes an interview from CNBC with Mr Bourla with text imposed above it which says “PFIZER CEO HAS NOT YET HAD VACCINE Don’t wanna cut the line”.  Text next to the video… Read More »

A Facebook post claims the BBC has lost £50 million “this year” from non-payment of licence fees. It also states that 260,000 over-75s had “refused to pay” for the TV licence. Neither of these points are right.   No suggestion the BBC has lost £50 million in licence fees The £50 million figure seems to have… Read More »

This article links to footage that is potentially distressing. A post on Facebook claims that a US aircraft photographed leaving Afghanistan was an inflatable decoy.  As multiple other fact checking services such as Check Your Fact and Reuters have previously written about similar claims, there is no evidence that this is true.  Thousands of people… Read More »

A post on Facebook falsely claims that variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes Covid-19, and biological viruses as a whole, do not exist.  Viruses exist  The post seems to claim that viruses do not exist. This is wholly false. Viruses are microbes which are able to latch onto and multiply inside the cells of… Read More »

A Facebook post claims that “due to changes in validity since leaving Europe, your passport is now only valid for 10 years from the issue date on your passport.” When you renew your passport as an adult, it is valid for ten years from the date your old passport expired. So if you renewed it… Read More »

A post on Facebook shows a screenshot of a tweet from Health Secretary Sajid Javid, saying “Looking forward to opening one of new 48 [sic] hospitals later today.” The accompanying text on Facebook says: “More lies from the Conservative Party. This is a new cancer centre that was in the pipeline years before Mr Johnson… Read More »