It's hard to measure crime, which can make news stories seem more worrying than they really are. We look past the headlines to explain the full picture.
Legal opinion suggests sharing photographs of prisoners of war doesn’t necessarily breach the Convention—but it still may be better not to do so. Read
Crime
Numerous Facebook posts incorrectly claim the Covid-19 vaccine programme is being investigated by West Yorkshire Police. Read
A post on Instagram misquotes sections of the Equality Act. Read
Health
Posts on Facebook falsely claim that the Metropolitan Police is investigating the Covid-19 vaccine programme. Read
Claims that what the four defendants admitted to did legally amount to criminal damage omit key parts of the definition of the offence. Read
Crime
A graph claiming to show a large increase in police funding fails to take into account inflation. Read
A Facebook post falsely claims Emma Tustin, who killed Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, has been hospitalised after being forced to eat 79 packets of salt. Read
New Covid face mask rules, for example, came into force before Parliament voted on the matter. Read
Asked about an alleged party at Downing Street during lockdown, Dominic Raab claimed police ‘don’t normally’ investigate alleged offences which took place a year ago. Read
Police have called off the search—but two newspapers only updated their websites to reflect this after Full Fact contacted them. Read
