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A post about coronavirus vaccines gets facts about their safety, ingredients, and legality wrong
Many of the claims in this post are common myths about the vaccine. Read
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Putting outsourced contact tracing spend in context
Spend on contact tracing is a small part of Test and Trace. As of October, roughly the same amount had been spent on national and local authority tracing efforts. Read
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Full Fact publishes new report on Facebook’s Third-Party Fact-Checking programme
Our second report on Full Fact's experience of the Third-Party Fact-Checking programme run by Facebook Read
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The challenges of online fact checking: how technology can (and can’t) help
New research report into the main challenges faced by global fact checkers when finding and checking claims online Read
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Health
Why are people not self-isolating?
Sir Keir Starmer and other Labour MPs claim that people are breaking the rules because they cannot afford to follow them, but this is not what the evidence says Read
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Cambridge Covid-19 test results don’t mean PCR tests are inaccurate
A higher ratio of false positives to true positives are expected when viral prevalence in the community drops. Read
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Health
False claims about first vaccine recipients spread on social media
Posts claim that CNN used a picture of one of the first vaccine recipients back in October. They did not. Read
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Health
Claims about the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine ingredients lack evidence
Claims about PEG, non-neutralizing antibodies, fertility and late effects have been made about the first Covid-19 vaccine approved in the UK. Read
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Education
School funding hasn’t increased by £5k per pupil
The Conservative Party has made incorrect claims about education spending on social media. Read
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