People did die of Covid-19 in Ireland in August
A viral post compares the number of deaths from cancer, suicide, alcohol and Covid-19 in Ireland, but it gets a lot wrong. 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.
The government is not planning to roll out an untested Covid-19 vaccine
A government consultation about unlicensed vaccines has been misunderstood online. Read
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Almost all of these claims about viruses are wrong
Posts claiming that viruses are just dead material and the body contains many viruses don’t disprove the fact that Covid-19 can be very harmful. Read
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Unlicensed vaccines are not untested
Social media posts claim the government is trying to quietly change the rules on unlicensed vaccines, but they’ve missed the point. Read
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Instagram post falsely claims there was a plane crash at Gatwick Airport
It used an edited picture of an Emirates aircraft above some houses. Read
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A graph spreading on Facebook gets it wrong on flu vs Covid deaths
Flu is not the underlying cause of deaths in more people than Covid-19. Read
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Children in Need is not donating £10 million to Black Lives Matter
The BBC charity is matching Stormzy’s £10m pledge to causes tackling racial inequality in the UK. Read
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A retracted paper linking 5G and coronavirus with no evidence is doing the rounds on Facebook
The paper, which was retracted days after it was published, did not prove any link between 5G and coronaviruses. Read
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Ukrainian soldiers have not died after having an American Covid-19 vaccine
Six members of the Ukrainian military have died of Covid-19 so far, but that wasn’t anything to do with a vaccine. Read
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Claims that Warburtons now gets its wheat from the USA are wrong
The company changed suppliers but it will continue to get some of its wheat from the UK and some from Canada. Read
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