Category Archives: Full Fact

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

New figures show inflation in May was 3.4%—but an error with the figures for April has resulted in a few conflicting news reports this morning.Source

The clip has been widely shared on social media in recent days amid airstrikes between Israel and Iran, but it’s not real footage.Source

Social media users have been sharing the clip with captions claiming it shows the moment before the crash in Ahmedabad, India, but it is old and unrelated footage.Source

Last month the Prime Minister claimed living standards were “at an all-time low” under the previous government—but none of the usual measures of living standards back this up.Source

The picture appears to be a screenshot of a TikTok video, which has the hallmarks of being generated with artificial intelligence.Source

The company has confirmed with us that the offer is not genuine, and has published a post warning of similar claims on its official Facebook account.Source