Ukrainian Embassy did not tell French farmers to stop protesting
This claim appears in a fake Euronews video that appeared on the Russian news site Pravda last month. Read
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Evie Townend
News & Online Journalist
Evie joined Full Fact as a news and online journalist in February 2023. Before this, she worked as a freelance journalist, a money reporter for The Mirror and in the regional CornwallLive newsroom.
Misleading graph on civilian airstrike deaths in Gaza doesn’t use comparable data
The graph, which has been shared widely online in recent months, suggests the number of civilian deaths per airstrike in Gaza last year was significantly lower than in other conflicts. Read
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Video of shivering child is from Syria, not Gaza
The video appears to have been posted by someone in Syria, but has since been shared alongside the Palestinian flag. Read
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Altered photo of Mexican presidential candidate was not published by Times of Israel
Posts on social media shared an apparent screenshot of an article about Claudia Sheinbaum featuring the edited photo. Read
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Alexei Navalny was an Amnesty ‘prisoner of conscience’ when he died
Several posts on social media share a 2021 BBC headline about how he’d been stripped of this status, but these posts are missing crucial context—that it was reinstated months later. Read
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Video does not show a real nuclear attack alert in the US
Footage taken from a ‘mock scenario’ on YouTube has been circulating online as if it shows a real emergency alert. Read
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List of restrictions on Islam in Japan is full of errors
The list has been circulating online since at least 2014. Read
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Decade-old headline in The Atlantic is being shared on social media
The headline claims a homophobic slur has been tweeted 2.6 million times in the last three months. Read
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Footage of dead birds on a frozen lake is from South Dakota, not China
The video is being shared widely on social media with claims the birds died as a result of the freezing temperatures. Read
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No evidence Pope Francis told people to ‘eat whatever you want’ during Lent
A passage about Lent is spreading widely on social media and has been attributed to the Pope. Read
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