Fact Checker (former)
Economy, Business & Finance
Labour MP Chris Bryant also claimed that VAT exemption on solar panels already happens in the EU. This isn’t quite true. Read
Health
The Government did write off £8.7 billion spent on PPE—but not all of that relates to equipment which will be burnt. Read
A Facebook post made it look like the fuel price is rising faster than oil, because it used fuel prices that were not adjusted for inflation. Read
An image from 2018 of a space rocket on board a train has been edited to show it being pulled by a tractor. Read
A video viewed over seven million times shows US paratroopers in North Carolina—not Ukraine, as claimed. Read
Immigration
Many countries taking Ukrainian refugees never required visas in the first place. Others have waived visa schemes entirely. Read
There’s plenty of evidence that the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not napalm, as a Facebook post claims. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has previously described the practice of adding up multiple years of spending increases as “misleading”. Read
It’s not clear when or where some of these clips were taken, but they predate the Russian invasion of Ukraine by some weeks. Read
The military parade rehearsal took place in May 2020 near Moscow, as revealed by Spanish fact checkers. Read
