The Atlantic did not publish an article titled ‘The Soft Bigotry of Bush did 9/11’
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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.
Are England’s cities ‘majority non-white’?
Most of England’s cities are not “majority non-white” as an Instagram post has claimed. The latest data we have shows that none are. Read
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Claim that 44% of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine trial pregnancies ended in miscarriage is wrong
The number is based on miscalculation from a now-deleted blog post. Read
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The government hasn’t ‘removed’ Covid-19 vaccine advice in pregnancy
Claims seem to be based on a document published around the time the Pfizer vaccine was first approved. Read
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This ‘injured dog’ has not been found in your area
Multiple posts with the same text using a picture of a dog from a 2021 news article are being shared on Facebook. Read
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Pregnant and breastfeeding women are still advised to get the Covid-19 vaccine
The advice has not been “quietly changed” as some online have claimed. Read
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No evidence the media is covering up vaccine deaths with stories about heart issues
Newspapers have been writing about what household items and activities might cause heart attacks since before the pandemic. Read
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Does Scotland have an ‘order’ to chop down 17 million trees?
This seems to step from a story that 14m trees had been cut down over 20 years to make way for wind farms. Read
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Image does not show parents of ‘trans baby’
A picture of a trans couple who paused their own transitions to have a baby is being falsely labelled. Read
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Mariupol concert footage doesn’t prove Ukraine isn’t a warzone
Russian forces now control the city and there was a concert there in July. Footage shows destroyed buildings in the background. Read
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