From false health claims to misleading statements on immigration, politics and conflict—our expert team delivers impartial, evidence based fact checks.
A photograph claiming to show the Dynamo Kyiv football team in army uniform actually shows members of a nationalist group in Ukraine. Read
Italian fact checkers have found no evidence the shot was broadcast by TGCOM24. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said it has sanctioned Russian bank assets worth more than those sanctioned by the US or EU—but hasn’t explained how it reached its figures. Read
They can only show that the company that registered the code was based there. Read
There’s plenty of evidence that the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not napalm, as a Facebook post claims. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has previously described the practice of adding up multiple years of spending increases as “misleading”. Read
The UK has resettled more people than other European countries through resettlement schemes, but that doesn’t include hundreds of thousands of people also seeking asylum. Read
The picture, which went viral online, was designed by the Ukrainian authorities to encourage people to tear down road signs. Read
Posts on Facebook claim that photographs of a Ukrainian woman injured after an airstrike near Kharkiv actually depict events from 2018. This isn’t the case, and the images are genuine. Read
A video shared on social media claims to show an explosion and collapsed buildings in Ukraine, but it actually shows an explosion in Lebanon in 2020. Read
Fact checking claims made by politicians, public figures and viral online content can give you the full picture backed by the evidence.
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