Category Archives: Full Fact

The paper has corrected its claim that 2.8 billion people die of obesity each year, with the real figure being in millions.Source

The Prime Minister suggested that Keir Starmer didn’t mention RAAC in a recent speech on education.Source

Social media posts suggest a UKHSA job advert shows that a new pandemic is being planned. But the UKHSA says the wording from the advert is a “legacy” from before the Covid-19 vaccine rollout began.Source

The fake alerts have been shared more than 1,600 times.Source

Thousands of people have shared a post about an apparent protest against a cashless supermarket in France.Source

Mr Streeting wrote that there were almost 5,000 fewer fully qualified GPs than a decade ago, but NHS England says the data pre-September 2015 is not comparable to current figures.Source

The desert festival has been mired by wet weather but there are no credible reports of an Ebola outbreak.Source

The real Wilko website no longer allows online purchases.Source

A video on social media claims pasteurised milk is a cause of lactose intolerance. This isn’t true, and raw unpasteurised milk can make you unwell.Source

The newspaper mistakenly referred to people having heart attacks when discussing access to public defibrillators. The devices should be used in cardiac arrests only—a different condition.Source

We’ve looked into the data after a series of claims regarding pupil absence rates in England were made on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.Source