Senior News and Online Journalist
Health
Posts online suggest there’s some sort of conspiracy involving a 2025 pandemic simulation exercise and the meningitis outbreak, but there’s absolutely no evidence to support this. Read
Conflict
In the last week we’ve seen a surge of misinformation relating to the war with Iran—we’ve fact checked 10 viral posts, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Read
Politics
In the three months since we first covered the problem, we’ve fact checked a further 45 false and misleading claims, about everything from nighttime curfews to a “Christmas decorations tax”. Read
Crime
Grok told users one AI-generated image “appears to be a genuine photo”, while a Google Lens AI overview linked a video which does not show real footage of the incident to Saturday’s stabbings. Read
Politics
TikTok has banned 14 accounts after a Full Fact investigation found false claims about government restrictions have been shared across different social media platforms more than 300,000 times. Read
Conflict
AI-generated and miscaptioned footage and images are being shared widely on social media as the conflict continues. Read
Some, including Kemi Badenoch, have suggested the series was based on a real-life crime committed by a boy who wasn’t white—but the show’s co-creators say it wasn’t based on any single case. Read
The interactive voice assistant has been providing more wrong information based on debunked false claims, about mpox, the UN and more. Read
After the attack social media became a hotbed of false claims about the identity of the suspect, which many people believe stoked unrest. Read
Claims we’ve previously checked about ‘supermajorities’, taxes and A&E performance have been repeated in online adverts this week. Read
