Category Archives: Full Fact

The organisation has no policy to kill household pets to help the environment.Source

A post promising to give away two free houses with minor dents and scratches is too good to be true.Source

Apparently contradictory research from Labour and the Times suggests that either 121,000 or 340,000 people died while waiting for treatment in England last year.Source

Amazon is not selling e-scooters for £3 due to storage issues.Source

A poll by Blood Pressure UK suggests that most 30-50s don’t know their blood pressure—but other evidence suggests that it won’t be high in most cases.Source

A since-deleted post from the Daily Telegraph wrongly claimed house prices had fallen to “14-year lows”.Source

Full Fact has previously checked near-identical posts in Facebook community groups.Source

Justice secretary Alex Chalk claimed that the number of full-time equivalent band 3-5 prison staff had increased by over 700 “since 30 June 2023”.Source

A video claiming Russian president Vladimir Putin warned of a plan to depopulate the world has been shared thousands of times on Facebook.Source

Michelle Donelan MP wrongly claimed the number of frontline prison officers has “increased by 20%” in the last year.Source

The contrails and wingtip vortices that can sometimes be seen emerging from planes are not ‘chemtrails’.Source