Fact checks of content undertaken as part of Full Fact’s work on the Third Party Fact Checking Programme with Facebook
The footage being shared on social media is from Egypt in 2013 when bulldozers were used to disperse protesters supporting the ousted president Mohamed Morsi. Read
The footage actually shows a suspected drug smuggling vessel being stopped by the US Coast Guard in the Eastern Pacific Ocean in 2019. Read
The footage is being shared across social media with the suggestion it shows the aftermath of yesterday’s earthquake. Read
This claim appears to have come from a website that has published other false claims. It concerns a speech in which Mr Schwab wasn’t mentioned at all. Read
The photograph accompanying the post shows a man with a different name who passed away a few days earlier. Read
The man who died on 12 December has been named as Leonard Farruku, an Albanian national. Read
The badges are a long-running joke about the conspiracy theory among pilots and social media users. Read
A Facebook post contains a number of claims about Muslims in Britain that are either wrong or unevidenced. Read
Former prime ministers can claim up to £115,000 a year for costs associated with undertaking public duties, but this is not a pension. Read
Images of vapour trails behind an aeroplane are not evidence of geoengineering taking place. Read
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