Photo of ‘chemtrails’ shows contrails made from water vapour
A picture of so-called “chemtrails” shows frozen trails of water vapour and not harmful chemicals being purposefully sprayed in the atmosphere. Read
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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.
A picture of so-called “chemtrails” shows frozen trails of water vapour and not harmful chemicals being purposefully sprayed in the atmosphere. Read
A 1999 photo of the king and Jimmy Savile is real, but the third man in the picture is not the Dunblane shooter, who killed himself after the massacre three years earlier. Read
The pictures used were taken from reports about a dog found on a mountain in the US five years ago. Read
Claims the picture shows a protest against the “WEF globalist” French President are wrong. Read
The plane in the picture is a Lockheed Martin aircraft that was purposely sunk off the coast of Jordan. Read
The UK government doesn’t offer free iPhones to people on certain benefits though some claimants are eligible for low-cost tariffs for mobile and broadband. Read
Claims that Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law’s company got the emergency alerts contract are going viral. Read
A cryptocurrency calling itself a CBDC was launched at an IMF spring meeting but the IMF has not endorsed it. Read
The alert works via cell towers that send the message to all connected devices in their area. Read
Posts on social media appear to claim the test will activate a “pathogen” in the Covid-19 vaccine. Read