Elon Musk has not agreed to buy CNN for $3 billion
CNN said “there is no truth in rumours of a sale or change in ownership of CNN whatsoever”. Read
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Sian Bayley
Senior News and Online Journalist
Sian joined Full Fact in April 2024 as senior news and online journalist. Prior to that she was news editor at The Bookseller magazine. She has previously worked for the Local Democracy Reporting Service and the Evening Standard.
Video does not show ‘HAARP ship’ floating near Spain before floods
The footage shared online is of a floating power plant—not a HAARP facility. Read
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Donald Trump did not call Republicans ‘the dumbest group of voters’
Posts circulating on social media falsely claim Mr Trump said the quote to People magazine in 1998. Read
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No evidence Houthis have surrendered after Donald Trump’s election victory
There is no evidence the Iran-backed rebel group in Yemen has said it’s stopping its operations in the Red Sea. Read
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No, King Charles did not unveil poster calling Israel’s Prime Minister a ‘terrorist’
The original video shows the King revealing his official portrait, not a poster of Benjamin Netanyahu. Read
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Fake headlines, altered audio and a face-swapped candidate in a cowboy hat: fact checking online misinformation about the US election
We’ve looked at dozens of claims on social media about the 2024 US presidential election - here are some of the key themes. Read
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HAARP facility unrelated to floods in Spain
The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) in Alaska cannot control the weather and has nothing to do with recent flooding. Read
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Video of 2017 Jerusalem lorry attack reshared with suggestion it shows recent incident
The clip being shared is unrelated to a recent incident involving a truck in Tel Aviv. Read
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Video of ‘Hezbollah attack on petrochemical plant in Israel’ actually shows Israeli airstrike on Yemen port
The footage is from September 2024 and shows the Hudaydah Port in Yemen, not a petrochemical plant in Haifa. Read
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Amazon’s Alexa has been giving more incorrect answers attributed to fact checkers
The interactive voice assistant has been providing more wrong information based on debunked false claims, about mpox, the UN and more. Read
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