Video shows a Brazil warehouse fire, not a Hezbollah ‘bombing’
A short video has been circulating on social media with misleading captions claiming it’s related to the escalating conflict between Hezbollah and Israel. Read
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A short video has been circulating on social media with misleading captions claiming it’s related to the escalating conflict between Hezbollah and Israel. Read
United States
The Democratic presidential candidate had previously revealed she owned a firearm during an interview with Oprah Winfrey. Read
The UN is not creating “one world government” or planning the end of the “family unit”. Read
Health
A video circulating on social media claims to use magnets to prove the pain relief tablets contain graphene oxide. Read
The quote may be loosely based on a transcript of genuine comments reportedly made by Ms Clinton. It first appeared on a satirical news website in 2016 and has been repeatedly debunked. Read
The video dates back to August and shows explosions at a petrol station in Aden, Yemen, not Israel. Read
A video clip manipulated using AI which appears to show the Ukrainian president dancing at a birthday party is being shared again on social media. Read
Politics
Within two hours of receiving requests from us, both the Mirror and MailOnline corrected recent errors that they had published about NHS waiting lists. Yesterday, The Guardian corrected an article, … Read
Some data seems to support the deputy PM Angela Rayner’s claim about house building numbers, but there are a number of different measures and the figures need context. Read
Health
There are different types of cholesterol, some of which increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. Statins reduce this risk. Read
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