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A Facebook post which claims TV has “shrunk Scotland and grown England” by changing its weather maps shows an image of graphics which were replaced in 2018. Read
Not every asylum seeker is eligible for support payments, and those that are receive much less than has been claimed on Facebook. Read
Thousands of people have shared claims that the BBC censored footage of a People’s Vote march. Read
Health
A widely shared video on TikTok and Instagram exaggerates and misrepresents the risks of vaping. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
A tweet shared more than 5,000 times makes a number of comparisons between France and the UK, many of which need context or are not quite right. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
A bonus suggested by the Labour MP Zarah Sultana would cost more than Mr Bezos’s reported total wealth, let alone any wealth he gained during the pandemic. Read
A study in Nature Geoscience said that the Earth’s inner core might no longer be spinning faster than the rest of the planet—not that it might have stopped spinning altogether. Read
A social media post has shared a number of images showing vapour lines from aeroplanes in the sky, and claims that these are in fact “chemtrails”. They aren’t—they’re contrails. Read
A social media post claims that 5G is “harming and killing people”. Read
A post shared hundreds of times on social media is not from the bakery chain. Read
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