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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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.
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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Baby ‘found in dumpster’ actually rescued in Syria after earthquake
The baby pictured in multiple Facebook posts shared to local groups was not found in a dumpster having been abandoned by its mother. Read
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Health
Vaccine boosters post wrongly says people not offered Covid-19 vaccine ‘declined’ it
Young children were not offered the vaccine at all, and most people were not offered the autumn booster. There are problems with the total population estimates too. Read
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Dog pictured by rubble was not taken in Turkey earthquake aftermath
The picture is being shared in good faith but is a stock photo created years ago. Read
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No evidence French president called England ‘oppressive’, ‘murderous’ and ‘cruel’
The quote has previously been shared by a local SNP Facebook group. Read
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Letter telling male Ukrainian refugees in UK to visit embassy is fake
The letter threatens hosts with a lower financial benefit if they don’t urge refugee residents to visit the Ukrainian embassy. Read
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