No evidence quote about photo of child in Nagasaki is true
The post claims to recount an interaction between a US soldier and a child in the aftermath of the bombing of Nagasaki in 1945. 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.
Picture of Putin popping Ukraine balloon isn’t a Banksy
The clearly-edited image has been shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook. Read
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Video of underground tunnel isn’t a secret UK military site
A Facebook post says it’s ‘UK Area 51’, but it’s actually a decommissioned nuclear bunker that has been shown to the outside world many times. Read
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Video doesn’t show Ukrainian president and his wife covering a Lionel Richie song
Facebook posts shared thousands of times claim to show Volodymyr Zelenskyy singing a duet. Read
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Video of person moving inside body bag isn’t from Ukraine
It’s actually from a climate protest in Vienna. Read
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Immigration
Did Labour invent the ‘hostile environment’?
Michael Gove recently claimed that the concept was conceived under a Labour Home Secretary. Read
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No evidence news channel used shot from Deep Impact to show people fleeing Kyiv
Italian fact checkers have found no evidence the shot was broadcast by TGCOM24. Read
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Barcodes alone can’t show a product was made in Russia
They can only show that the company that registered the code was based there. Read
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Boris Johnson’s claims on UK accepting people fleeing conflict miss vital context
The UK has resettled more people than other European countries through resettlement schemes, but that doesn’t include hundreds of thousands of people also seeking asylum. Read
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Sign telling Russian troops ‘go f*** yourselves’ was Photoshopped
The picture, which went viral online, was designed by the Ukrainian authorities to encourage people to tear down road signs. Read
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