Daily Archives: October 20, 2021
England hasn’t ‘kept’ £450 billion of Scottish taxes since 2001
A post on Facebook claims that since 2001, Scotland has sent £900 billion in tax to “Westminster” but only received £447.5 billion in return, meaning that Scotland subsidises England. It doesn’t. What this post fails to include is the amount of money that the UK government spends for or in Scotland. How Scottish public spending… Read More »
About 3.6% of men have recently experienced domestic abuse
For the year ending March 2020, the crime survey of England and Wales estimated that 757,000 men experienced domestic abuse—that is approximately seven men in every 100. Rachel Maclean MP, 18 October 2021. During a debate in the House of Commons on 18 October, the Safeguarding Minister, Rachel Maclean, made an error over the share… Read More »
Two doctors with same name cause Times letter confusion
A Facebook post claims that a letter published in The Times on 16 October 2021 claims to be from a doctor that died five years ago. The post also gathered a lot of attention on Twitter. The letter writer, Martin Spiro, who spoke about his time as a medical student, wrote to the paper arguing… Read More »
Canada is not implementing a social credit scheme
A Facebook post shared almost 700 times suggests that “in a few weeks” Ontario in Canada will implement a social credit scheme based around QR codes. The post claims that “a QR code social credit scheme” will give the government the power to turn off your access to money. It warns that people could incur… Read More »
Vaccine rap battle full of misinformation
A video on Facebook, performed in the style of a rap battle and viewed more than 36,000 times, makes a number of misleading claims about Covid-19 and the vaccines. In it, the self-proclaimed “truther” tells their “vaxxer” alter-ego that Covid-19 is as deadly as the flu, alludes to ivermectin as an effective treatment for the… Read More »