On 5 March 2022 a number of Conservative MPs, including the Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency Jacob Rees-Mogg, tweeted a chart claiming that the value of Russian bank assets sanctioned by the UK was higher than those sanctioned by either the US or the EU. The City of London leads the way in… Read More »
Posts on Facebook claiming that an Italian news channel used a shot from the 1998 film Deep Impact to falsely illustrate people fleeing the Ukrainian capital Kyiv have been shared hundreds of times. The same claim is also circulating on Twitter. The posts compare two versions of the same picture—an extremely congested road with people… Read More »
A post on Facebook makes a number of claims about nuclear bombs, culminating in the falsehoods that “nukes don’t exist”, and are “a technological impossibility”. Nuclear weapons not only exist but have been used, both in testing and on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. We’ve addressed some of the post’s claims… Read More »
A number of posts on social media claim that consumers can use barcodes on products to determine whether or not they were produced in Russia, in order to boycott those products following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This is almost correct. In fact, a barcode can’t show whether something was produced in Russia. It can only… Read More »
Backstabbers are challenging people to work with. When you are at work, the last thing you want to deal with are people who threaten your peace of mind. The thought of having to watch your back all the time fills you with a sense of dread. Yet, no matter how much we prepare for the… Read More »
“Asked whether he supported an overall increase in spending, Mr Wallace insisted that he had already secured £24 billion of additional defence funding” Sunday Telegraph, 6 March 2022. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has claimed the government has “£24 billion pounds extra” to spend on defence in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, splashed on the… Read More »
