Science & Technology
A £27 monthly ‘WiFi charge’ is not being introduced in the UK
Contrary to a video being shared on social media, the government is not bringing in the fee for UK residents. Read
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Charlotte Green
News & Online Journalist
Charlotte joined Full Fact in November 2023 as a news & online journalist from her role as a Local Democracy Reporter at the Manchester Evening News.
She was previously a senior news reporter with the Manchester Evening News, Rossendale Free Press and Accrington Observer titles.
Politics
The government is not introducing a 48-hour parking limit
The Department for Transport told Full Fact that these claims, which have been widely shared on social media, are not true. Read
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Sport
Baseless claim that Declan Rice donated millions to Tower Hamlets Council spreads on social media
Posts sharing the claim about the footballer have been shared thousands of times on social media, but the council has confirmed it isn’t true. Read
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Conflict
Miscaptioned video shows Turkish football fans, not the Gaza aid flotilla
The footage has been shared widely on social media with misleading captions claiming it depicts the Global Sumud Flotilla. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
No, people who have more than £500 in the bank will not be placed on a national monitoring register
HMRC told us this is “completely false”. Read
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Crime
No, a Met Police video of the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally didn’t show a 2020 protest
The AI chatbot Grok and some social media users wrongly claimed the footage was years old and from an anti-lockdown protest in Trafalgar Square. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
False claim that free cash withdrawals are ending from October shared widely online
Videos claiming that people will have to pay £1.50 to withdraw cash from ATMs from October 1 have been shared online. Read
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Health
No, tumours aren’t ‘bags’ of toxins and biopsies don’t release them
Incorrect claims that tumours are part of the body’s healing response to cancer and that biopsies release toxins have been circulating online. Read
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Crime
Video of boys being arrested is from 2008 TV programme, and nothing to do with England flags
The footage was actually taken from an old episode of the TV programme Traffic Cops and shows two boys being arrested on suspicion of theft from a motor vehicle. Read
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Politics
Image of crowd waving Union Jacks isn't from recent London protest and is almost certainly AI
The picture was shared after the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally—but it isn’t real. Read
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