Senior Political Journalist
Social media posts have wrongly conflated a climate pledge made by several UK councils with plans to create “15 minute cities”. Read
Health
We’ve looked into the figures after Rishi Sunak said a new discharge fund was “already making a difference”, and the number of people unnecessarily in hospital was reducing. Read
We’ve found no evidence for a widely shared social media claim that the Mayor of London said people should learn Arabic. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
We looked into comparisons between the UK and the world’s largest economies after the Conservative party tweeted that it had the highest growth in the G7. Read
A notice shared on Facebook claims that Ealing council plans to divide the borough into “7 Local Zones”. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The paper claimed joining the CPTPP would see over 99% of UK goods exports to members “become” tariff-free—but 85% already are. Read
A video which has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on social media shows a Tsunami hitting an island in Indonesia in 2018, not Turkey, as claimed by some. Read
The clip, which has been viewed more than 77,000 times on Facebook, appears to have been filmed during a major earthquake in Nepal almost eight years ago. Read
Immigration
Articles in the Daily Express and Daily Mail wrongly claimed that almost £7 million a day is being spent on hotels for people who either arrived in the UK illegally or are awaiting deportation. Read
A column published in the Daily Mail which stated that a public consultation on the planned expansion of London’s ultra low emission zone found 80% opposition has since been corrected. Read
