Category Archives: Full Fact

A screenshot originally shared by a parody account has been shared on Facebook by several people who appear to believe it is real.Source

We take a look at Labour’s promise to refer all young people caught with a knife to a Youth Offending Team, with punishments ranging from tagging to custody.Source

The image, which has been shared by accounts in the UK, has several hallmarks of being created by artificial intelligence.Source

Over the years, we’ve checked a number of false and misleading claims about statins.Source

Calls for the government to scrap the two-child benefit limit have been renewed ahead of the publication of its child poverty strategy later this year.Source

A screenshot supposedly showing a post from the US president about Mr Musk has been shared on social media, but the White House says it’s “fake”.Source

Social media posts have shared this clip with the claim it shows the plane that crashed taking off. In fact this footage shows a different plane, and has been online for more than a year.Source

A post re-circulating on Facebook appears to be based on something that Naz Shah reposted from a parody account then quickly deleted in 2017—she has said the sharing of the post was a “genuine accident”.Source

A picture of the first female pilot in the Chilean navy has been shared with misleading claims she is an Israeli pilot captured in Iran.Source

A 2017 video of protests in Iran is being shared on social media with misleading claims that it shows recent anti-regime unrest linked to the Israel-Iran conflict.Source

AI-generated and miscaptioned footage and images are being shared widely on social media as the conflict continues.Source