We do fact checks and explain news from Europe and the UK's links with it, so you can understand the big stories.
Europe
The leader of the French National Rally party was filmed crying with laughter while on a radio show in 2017—not in response to the recent French elections. Read
Europe
An image of a map is being shared online with a misleading caption claiming it shows voting results in the “first round” of France’s national elections. Read
It’s been banned in the overseas territory of New Caledonia, amid recent riots, but not on personal devices elsewhere. Read
A video circulating on Facebook claiming to show Paris was actually filmed at a flea market in Marseille, in the south of France. Read
Footage allegedly showing Emmanuel Macron clubbing has been circulating on social media, but it has been digitally altered. Read
Untrue claims about the authorship and authenticity of Anne Frank’s diary have been circulating online—including that it was written in ballpoint pen after the Second World War. Read
A false claim from 2021 that a French ministerial instruction about the stunning of poultry prior to slaughter would lead to a ban on ritual slaughter has been circulating again on social media. Read
The video of fireworks lighting up the sky was filmed in Croatia in 2020, and has since been misattributed to many different events including elections in Brazil and Italian football celebrations. Read
Although farmers are protesting across Europe, an image circulating on social media doesn’t show a recent protest in Verona. It’s actually of a demonstration by farmers in Paris in 2010. Read
While farmers have been protesting across France, the footage is from a supermarket car park in a town 365 miles south of Paris. Read
