This person isn’t the one from viral footage of someone trying to burn the Cenotaph’s Union Jack
They are two different people. Read
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Rachael Krishna
Fact Checker (former)
Rachael joined Full Fact in April 2019, having previously worked as a reporter for BuzzFeed News. She worked with the fact-checking team, and has experience and interest in online misinformation and social media.
Some of these figures comparing the cost of the government job retention scheme to other government spending are wrong.
The furlough scheme is estimated to cost £14 billion per month. Read
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Chris Whitty did not personally receive millions of pounds from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation
The money was given to the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, where Chris Whitty worked. Read
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This is how you can verify you are actually being contacted by the government’s Test and Trace service
Tracers will not ask for personal information such as financial details or online logins. Read
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Patent application 060606 does not mention inserting microchips into the body
This patent application appears to be for some sort of wearable activity tracker. Read
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Health
50 French schools have closed due to coronavirus cases, but it is likely these infections happened before schools reopened
It is still too early to know the effect of school openings will have on coronavirus cases in France. Read
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Health
A 2019 Dominic Cummings blog post was recently edited to explicitly mention a coronavirus
The Wayback Machine website shows the edit being made in mid-April 2020. Read
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Health
Currently, people in independent living housing aren’t automatically eligible for coronavirus testing
Testing for asymptomatic people is currently only available for people in regulated care homes and in the NHS. Read
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The 1918 pandemic did have a deadly second wave, but not due to quarantine being lifted
The 1918 outbreak is considered one of the most deadly pandemics in history. Read
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This photo of Brighton was taken during the coronavirus lockdown
Metadata from the photo showed it was taken when social distancing rules were in place. Read
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