You cannot get ‘half-ownership’ of a property you’ve rented for five years
A claim linked to Serco offering landlords six year, 11 month contracts is going viral. Read
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Grace Rahman
News & Online Editor
Grace joined Full Fact in March 2018 from the Press Association. She’s in charge of our work on the Third Party Fact Checking programme with Facebook and is particularly interested in debunking rumours spreading on social media.
She is a qualified journalist and has a Biology degree.
‘Human cages’ in California were used by prison service
A video claiming the police promised to destroy the cages is wrong. Read
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Health
ONS release doesn’t show vaccines ‘killing in huge numbers’
An ONS bulletin about Covid-19 deaths by vaccination status does not show the vaccine is killing people in huge numbers. Read
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Ukraine’s Diia app is not connected to the ‘Great Reset’
There are also no official plans for Ukrainians to be paid a universal basic income through the app, as has been claimed on social media. Read
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There is no free ‘mystery bus’ in Brussels
A viral Twitter joke about a bus supposedly called ‘not the 48’ is being taken seriously by some. Read
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Video of helicopter crashing ‘in Ukraine’ is actually from a video game
Footage from the military game has been falsely claimed to show footage from the war before. Read
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Zelenskyy’s ‘body double’ is really his head of security
The man was in a video of the Ukrainian and US presidents in Kyiv. Read
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‘WEF protest’ in Spain was actually over health system
A TikTok account claimed the video showed a protest against “the effects of WEF globalism”. Read
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Naz Shah did not say quote about grooming gangs
The comment is sometimes falsely attributed to her as a direct quote, but it was actually a retweet that she later deleted and said had been retweeted by accident. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Viral ‘average energy cost’ Europe price list is not what it seems
The list, which has been retweeted by a Labour MP, shows wholesale prices of electricity for a single hour in December 2022. Read
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