Category Archives: Full Fact

Nine current MPs have lost the Conservative whip. None are in prison.Source

A video claiming to show a girl traumatised by bombings in the Israel-Gaza conflict is taken from a TikTok page about a Syrian girl suffering from epilepsy, likely in Lebanon.Source

A post claims to show the difference between ‘contrails’—water vapours left by planes—and ‘chemtrails’. But both images show contrails.Source

Posts claiming the charges were suspended for London’s Eid in the Square event this year, but not for the London Marathon, are untrue.Source

The photo was taken at a ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville, US, in 2017.Source

Social media posts claim the author has bought property in Russia and is moving there because of the country’s “traditional values”.Source

A guide to voter ID requirements ahead of the May local elections and the forthcoming general election.Source

A false claim that it was not the moon that blocked the sun during the 2024 full solar eclipse has been widely shared online.Source

Posts promoting supposed offers that seem too good to be true are very common on sites like Facebook.Source

Posts shared on Facebook wrongly claim that “8.2% of the population of Leicester” consider themselves British. In fact, more than half of the city’s population does.Source

The image has been edited to include Jimmy Savile’s face on the body of Gordon Brown.Source