Author Archives: WeRaven

Viral post comparing benefit fraud with tax avoidance and evasion is inaccurate

The post makes incorrect claims, including that tax avoidance and evasion cost the UK 100 times more than benefit fraud.Source

unbfacts: When mathematician George Dantzig was a student at…

unbfacts: When mathematician George Dantzig was a student at Berkeley, he solved two famous statistics problems the professor had written on the blackboard, because he arrived to class late and assumed they were homework assignments. Source

By 2021, around 6,000 Swedes had microchips implanted in their hands, allowing them to store data…

By 2021, around 6,000 Swedes had microchips implanted in their hands, allowing them to store data…Source

“The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won all of…

“The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and…Source

unbfacts: In Kenya, there’s an exclusive hotel located in a…

unbfacts: In Kenya, there’s an exclusive hotel located in a giraffe sanctuary. It’s called Giraffe Manor, and one of the selling points is the giraffe sometimes poke their heads into the windows in search of a treat. Source

unbfacts: In 2011, two men got lost at sea for 33 days and…

unbfacts: In 2011, two men got lost at sea for 33 days and drifted about 600 kilometers. They ended up on a small atoll, where they met the descendant of a long-lost uncle. The uncle had been lost at sea 50 years earlier, washed up on the same island, and started a family. Source

Photo of Zelenskyy wearing a suit when meeting WEF leader predates Ukraine war

A Facebook post suggests the Ukrainian president recently wore a suit to meet with the World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab amid criticism over him not wearing one to meet President Trump.Source

Keir Starmer has abolished NHS England, not the NHS itself

The quango that makes decisions about the NHS in England has been abolished, but the NHS still exists.Source

Video of Ukrainian flag on Statue of Liberty is fake

The clip contains a ‘Sora’ watermark in the bottom right corner, indicating it was likely created using OpenAI’s text-to-video artificial intelligence model.Source

Old video shared as recent footage of Ukrainian troops ‘surrendering’ in Kursk

Social media posts claim the clip shows ‘Zelensky’s army’ surrendering in recent days, but the footage dates back to 2022.Source

No evidence Pope Francis told people ‘eat whatever you want’ in Holy Week

We fact checked a similar claim last year about comments the Pope had supposedly made about Lent.Source