Senior Political Journalist
A Facebook post comparing the amount someone paid minimum wage earns with the state pension uses figures which are out of date, and lacking important context. Read
Health
A Facebook post calling for an investigation into the Covid-19 pandemic falsely claims the government “knew” the virus was a “simple flu”. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey claimed his is “the only party” calling for spending on foreign aid to be restored to 0.7% of Gross National Income. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
A column by former work and pensions secretary Chloe Smith was corrected after we contacted the MP about the error. Read
Immigration
We’ve looked into the figures after the Home Secretary claimed 100 million people could be eligible for protection under current UK laws. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The Conservative Party claims that Labour has pledged £90 billion worth of unfunded spending commitments. We’ve looked into how it reached this figure. Read
A Facebook post features an image of a dog that was fatally injured in Newport News, Virginia. Read
South Wales Police confirmed it has no record of an incident described in a Facebook post involving an abandoned baby. Read
£37 billion was the total budget for the NHS Test and Trace programme over its first two years, only a fraction of which was spent on the app. Read
A post on social media claims that plans to expand the ULEZ to cover all of Greater London had “no public consultation and no mandate”. Read
