Fact Checker (former)
Health
There is no indication that the poll, carried out amongst Independent readers, included a representative sample of respondents. Read
The National AIDS Trust said some posts claiming victims of needle spiking had tested positive for HIV were “demonstrably false”. Read
Crime
Police across the UK are investigating more than 50 reports of incidents involving some form of injection. Read
Health
The government has changed its statement about the lab in question, but has not explained the discrepancy or why inaccurate information was originally released. Read
The format of the anecdote, seen thousands of times on Facebook, is almost identical to false posts about other successful couples. Read
Immigration
A picture on Facebook misidentifies a 1991 picture as one taken during the Second World War. Read
Health
A video on Facebook shares several common types of harmful misinformation about Covid-19 and the vaccines. Read
Environment
The entrepreneur said both his organisation and the UK government were contributing £400 million each to a new fund. Read
Health
A spokesperson for the supermarket giant told us it hadn’t sold fireworks since 2019. Read
Education
Figures supposedly showing that between 95,000 and 135,000 children failed to return to school this term are based on a snapshot of just one day. Read
