The government hasn’t admitted Covid-19 vaccines damage your natural immune system
This seems to be based on misinterpretations of government reports. 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.
Moving ‘crisis actor’ in body bag is actually climate change protester
People shown lying on the ground to protest climate policy were not crisis actors caught unawares. Read
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Australian police taking no action over politician ‘arrest warrants’
New South Wales police were given documents from a protest group but say they are planning no further action. Read
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Estimates of heart condition prevalence in the UK isn’t linked to vaccines
A video wrongly implies the results of a new study looking at how many people may need treatment for a heart condition has only appeared since people started getting the Covid-19 vaccine. Read
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A needle cannot save the life of someone having a stroke
If you think someone is having a stroke, it’s vital you call 999 as soon as possible. Read
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Fake Sky News tweet claims PM drank with foxhound pack
No such story about Boris Johnson and the Berkeley Hunt has been reported. Read
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PCR inventor Kary Mullis quote doesn’t prove the tests are useless
A quote from the creator of the PCR process, Kary Mullis, is being used to claim PCR testing can find “anything in anybody”. Read
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Dover lorry queues can be seen from space, like most UK traffic can
Posts on Facebook claim that the queues of lorries at Dover were longer than the Channel and could be seen from space at one point. Read
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A video of several fans making a paper plane fly is CGI
The video appears on Facebook with the caption “when physicists get bored”. Read
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We don’t know how many suicides there have been since Omicron arrived in the UK
There’s a big lag on figures due to deaths being investigated by coroners. Read
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