This isn’t a real sign at a protest
This protest sign isn’t from the People’s Vote march, it’s from 2011, and has been edited. Read
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This video doesn’t show the final moments of the Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed in March
We can tell from the plane’s interior that it’s not the same flight. Read
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This boy in Sweden was killed but the motive is unclear
A viral image does show Arminas Pileckas, a 15 year-old Lithuanian student in Sweden who was stabbed at school by a 14 year-old boy from Syria in January 2016. Read
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Europe
You can’t have an “implementation period” after Brexit without a deal
If Theresa May were to drop her deal and leave the EU now, we wouldn’t get an implementation period. Read
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Health
Reports on the benefits of 10 minutes of exercise need a health warning
The study looked at the impact of doing 10-59 minutes of moderate activity a week, compared to inactivity. Read
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Europe
Is it possible to repeatedly sign a parliamentary petition using the same email address?
It’s possible to use the same email address to sign the Revoke Article 50 petition up to two times. Read
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Europe
There almost certainly weren’t a million people on the People’s Vote march
Experts in crowd estimation put the number at between 312,000 and 400,000. Read
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The boots Neil Armstrong wore on the moon do match the footprints he left there
This picture of Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit doesn’t include the ‘lunar overshoes’ he actually wore on the moon. Read
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This video does not show the final moments of the Ethiopian Airlines flight
It’s a video from 2016 of an Etihad flight that experienced severe turbulence but went on to land safely. Read
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This isn’t a picture of Angela Merkel and Adolf Hitler
A Facebook post doesn’t show a picture of a young Angela Merkel and Adolf Hitler. Hitler died nine years before Merkel was born. Read
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