Yearly Archives: 2022

A video of military planes flying overhead, widely shared on Facebook, is claimed to be footage from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Spanish fact checking organisation Maldita has revealed the video actually shows a military parade rehearsal near Moscow in May 2020.  The original footage can be viewed on YouTube. Clips of this video claiming… Read More »

A post on Facebook claims a video which includes a number of different clips depicts Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It was posted on the morning of 24 February 2022 and at the time of writing has over 19,000 views. The two-minute video contains five different clips. One was definitely not taken in Ukraine, one was… Read More »

A video shared on Facebook, which has been viewed over 77,000 times, claims to show footage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Troops entered two rebel held areas in eastern Ukraine on 22 February, before an invasion was announced by Russian president Vladimir Putin on 24 February. Some of the clips included in the video… Read More »

A post shared over 1,000 times on Facebook features three images of explosions, with a caption describing the current invasion of Ukraine and stating: “Explosions have been heard in Ukraine after Russia launched a full-scale invasion this morning.” Russian forces entered two rebel held areas in eastern Ukraine on 22 February, before an invasion of… Read More »

Trade unionist Howard Beckett has claimed that a 0.05% wealth tax on financial transactions would raise £250 billion per year, in a tweet shared thousands of times. Mr Beckett, who is Assistant General Secretary for the Unite union, says that in one year this could pay for a 15% pay rise for NHS workers until… Read More »

A widely shared Facebook post contains a screenshot showing that a police car’s MOT certificate is “overdue”. This is an accurate reflection of what you’ll see, at the time of writing, if you search for the car’s registration number on the government’s MOT checking service. It does not mean that the car is in breach… Read More »

“430,000 more in employment now than there were before the pandemic began” Boris Johnson, 23 February 2022. At Prime Minister’s Questions Boris Johnson today repeated misleading statements about employment by claiming there are 430,000 more people “in employment” now than before the pandemic began. Figures from the Office for National Statistics show the number of… Read More »

A Facebook post claims that “raw data from a recent Vaccine Surveillance report from the UKHSA shows a sharp drop in vaccine effectiveness against infection in most age groups.” It doesn’t. There are various reasons why this data should not be used to estimate vaccine effectiveness. Similar assertions have been a common theme of Covid-19… Read More »