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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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.
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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Images of girl confronting soldier are not from Ukraine
They come from a video that says it shows children in Palestine, which was published online in 2012. Read
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Europe
BBC Breakfast uses old footage of Russian parade rehearsal to show invasion of Ukraine
The clip of military planes is one of a number of misleading videos which have circulated online following the invasion. Read
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Europe
Keir Starmer hasn’t voted 48 times to take the UK back into the EU
The figure repeatedly quoted by Boris Johnson appears to include some votes which were not about whether or not the UK should be part of the EU. Read
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Health
News clip doesn’t prove Queen is being treated with ivermectin
Screenshots and clips of an Australian news segment about Queen Elizabeth II have been shared widely online. Read
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Health
US data doesn’t prove increase in cancer following vaccine rollout
The blog post making these claims is based on false US military data. Read
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