Category Archives: Full Fact

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No, there’s no evidence sunglasses cause cancer

By filtering out the harmful UV rays from sunlight, verified sunglasses protect your eyes and the skin around them, and their use is widely recommended, including by the NHS.Source

Images of girl looking through hole in a wall shared with misleading captions on Facebook

We previously fact checked claims about the video these images come from last November.Source

Is the government on track to establish a new independent ethics commission?

Full Fact takes a look at Labour’s pledge to establish a new Ethics and Integrity Commission to ‘ensure probity in government’.Source

Firework video clips do not show ceasefire celebrations in Tehran

We matched all but one of the clips to Nagaoka in Japan.Source

Facebook posts falsely claim a female police officer is missing

Police forces across the country say the appeal is not genuine and that they are not seeking anyone of that name.Source

Our verdict on Labour’s first year: nowhere near enough action to restore trust

See Full Fact’s take on what the government has and hasn’t done in its first year to heal the public’s “lack of trust” in politics.Source

The NHS 10 Year Health Plan will change how we recruit doctors—but how many medical students are working class?

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AI-generated video shared with claims it shows Iran attack on US airbase in Qatar

OpenAI’s Sora watermark can be seen in the bottom-right corner of the footage.Source

When was the last time a government bill was defeated at its second reading in the Commons?

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Video of an Air India crew boarding a plane was filmed days before the Ahmedabad crash

The clip was posted on Instagram on 9 June, three days before the disaster.Source

Old easyJet video shared as ‘last moment’ before Air India crash

The video dates back to at least March 2020.Source