A Facebook post claims Argos is offering Samsung microwaves for £1.78, alleging the electronics manufacturer had broken a contract “with the famous retailer”. The post, published by a Facebook group which uses the Argos logo as its profile picture, includes a photo of three shelves filled with microwaves with a £1.78 price label. It asks… Read More »
A number of posts on Facebook have highlighted part of what they claim to be the Nuremberg Code, stating that mask mandates preventing people from accessing food, healthcare or education would be considered a war crime. The highlighted part of the code states: “Leaders should be aware that mandating masks on the citizens of a… Read More »
Are you sick and tired of wasting your mental and emotional energy worrying about (and replaying) events in your mind? Even sabotaging yourself, your performance, and your relationships, at times? Constantly playing the “what if” game in your mind? Let’s be honest, feeling anxious is miserable and unequivocally sucks the enjoyment out of life. It… Read More »
A video on Instagram claims that a Covid-19 patient shown on BBC News is really an actor pretending to be ill. This is not true. A man in the video visits the patient’s Instagram account where he finds the phrase “award winning crisis actor”. In response, the man in the video says: “It’s almost like… Read More »
A number of posts on social media claim that NASA has “just hired” 24 theologians in order to study how humans would react if scientists discovered alien life, with the suggestion that it had done so to prepare for imminent contact with aliens. As other fact checkers have written, the social media posts emerged following… Read More »
A post on Facebook claims that an experiment was conducted to race a cheetah against greyhounds with a picture appearing to show a cheetah sitting in the starting box while the dogs run ahead. The post says that when the cheetah didn’t bother participating, the race coordinator explained its behaviour by saying: “A cheetah uses… Read More »
A Facebook post shared almost 340,000 times claims that dialling 55 after ringing 999 will prompt emergency call handlers to dispatch police to you without the need to speak. The post states: “If you’re in a situation where you can’t speak [for example] choking, heart attack, intruder, domestic violence, etc. Ring 999 when they answer,… Read More »
Several Facebook posts have shared data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) with the claim that the Covid-19 vaccines have negative effectiveness against the disease, meaning they would make vaccinated people more likely to catch Covid. One post, which appeared on 24 December 2021, linked directly to a Twitter thread about the UKHSA data.… Read More »
“Since Brexit, Britain has been able to strike new free trade deals with 70 countries worth over £760billion, according to the Government.” Daily Express, 16 January 2022. The Express has repeated a misleading claim about Britain’s trade deals, despite having already amended a previous article which made the same claim, after being approached by Full… Read More »
A Facebook post with four thousand shares shows a picture of eight lateral flow tests. Each has been labelled, suggesting they have been tested with different things including different soft drinks, water, and one which was tested with a “real swab”. The tests labelled ‘real swab’, ‘water’ and ‘Diet Coke’ show a seemingly negative result,… Read More »
A video shared by a Facebook page called “Science world” of several strategically placed room fans appearing to keep a paper aeroplane flying between them is captioned: “when physicists get bored”. However, the video does not show a genuine experiment, but a 3D animation. It was first put out on Instagram in 2016 by Vernon… Read More »