Buzz Aldrin didn’t ‘admit’ he never went to the Moon
A clip from a 2015 interview has been liked more than 40,000 times on Instagram. Read
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Sarah Turnnidge
Fact Checker (former)
Sarah previously worked for HuffPost UK, and before that worked in local newsrooms including the Bristol Post, the Essex Echo and the Thurrock Independent.
Education
Claim ‘nine in 10’ teachers voted to strike is misleading
Teaching union NASUWT claimed that nine in 10 of its members voted to strike. Read
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Fake appeal to identify woman in ‘coma’ circulating on Facebook
A social media post falsely claims an unidentified young woman was “mugged, stabbed and left for dead on the roadside”. Read
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Fake post about child ‘missing’ after baseball practice circulating online
A post about an allegedly missing child named Tyler Miller in Lincoln has been shared on social media using a picture of an Australian girl. Read
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‘Cor ona virus’ doesn’t mean ‘heart attack virus’ in Latin
A screenshot from Google Translate appears to show the translation, but this isn’t the meaning of the words in Latin. Read
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Campervan shared in Facebook post not part of so-called giveaway
A social media post offering a camper van to one lucky winner isn’t quite what it seems. Read
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Claim about vaccine deaths wasn’t ‘discussed in House of Commons’
A claim that daily vaccine deaths were higher than Covid-19 deaths was not discussed in the House of Commons. Read
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No evidence ‘trails’ are deliberately put into the sky by planes
A post on Instagram claims to show trails from planes turning the sky cloudy. Read
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Health
Study didn’t link children’s flu vaccine to strep A infections
A 2014 study has been widely shared as alleged proof nasal flu vaccines are linked to strep A infections. Read
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Police warn against interacting with posts about missing Surrey boy
A social media post about a supposedly missing child has been shared hundreds of times. Read
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