Infosys did not work on emergency alerts system
Claims that Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law’s company got the emergency alerts contract are going viral. 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 IMF has not launched its own Central Banking Digital Currency
A cryptocurrency calling itself a CBDC was launched at an IMF spring meeting but the IMF has not endorsed it. Read
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Emergency alert won’t give government access to your location or personal data
The alert works via cell towers that send the message to all connected devices in their area. Read
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Emergency alert test is not an ‘activation signal’ for a vaccine ‘pathogen’
Posts on social media appear to claim the test will activate a “pathogen” in the Covid-19 vaccine. Read
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The HAARP research facility didn’t produce peculiar clouds
The clouds pictured in a social media post have nothing to do with the Alaskan research facility that is essentially a large radio transmitter used to study the upper parts of the atmosphere. Read
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No evidence Bill Gates talked about putting ‘vaccines in our food supply’
There’s no record of him tweeting it and his foundation says he never did. Read
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Prince William does not own Serco
Serco doesn’t ‘own’ Obamacare, the colloquial name for the US Affordable Care Act, either. Read
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London is not ‘55% non-white’
Data from the 2021 Census shows it’s closer to 46%. Read
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How to spot AI-generated images
Full Fact’s guide on how to spot images created using Artificial Intelligence. Read
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‘Recent photo’ of Julian Assange was generated by AI
The fake image of him apparently taken in prison has been shared by users who apparently believe it’s genuine. Read
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