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In the run-up to the local elections, Labour is warning Reform UK would make people pay to use the health service—a claim the party’s strongly denied. Full Fact looks at the evidence. Read
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There’s no evidence to support two false claims from a health influencer. Read
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An Instagram video claims that a “cinnamon ritual” can be used instead of conventional medicine to control blood sugar. Read
Politics
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has corrected an error on its death statistics dashboard, after Full Fact got in touch.The error concerned deaths from pneumonia or flu, which we … Read
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Familiar vaccine misinformation resurfaces in a Facebook video, which claims that mRNA vaccines change people’s genes. There is no factual basis for this claim. Read
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A video seemingly showing the US president calling for a ban on Skittles and the red food colouring carmine is a deepfake. Read
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Viral posts falsely claim it’s illegal for doctors to advise patients on cancer cures. Read
Health
A video of the company’s CEO has been altered to make it sound like he announced plans to reduce the world’s population by 50%. Read
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The quango that makes decisions about the NHS in England has been abolished, but the NHS still exists. Read
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There were actually 6.4 million people on the NHS England waiting list last July, not 7.6 million as the health secretary claimed last month. That was the number of cases. Read
