Fact checks of content undertaken as part of Full Fact’s work on the Third Party Fact Checking Programme with Facebook
An image shared on Facebook offers a misleading comparison between state pension payments and benefits given to “illegal immigrants”. Read
Identical posts have been shared across the UK. Read
The Cabinet Office had previously declined to give any figures after claims about the cost of the emergency alerts test were made on social media. Read
Health
A social media post claims that most sunscreens contain benzene, a chemical linked to cancer. It isn’t used as an ingredient, and the data on contamination doesn’t support these claims. Read
An out-of-context video has been liked more than 28,000 times on Instagram. Read
A post claiming social media users can win a free luxury caravan is too good to be true. Read
Health
Posts on social media are attributing a false quote to Chelsea Clinton. She did not say that children in the USA should be forcibly vaccinated. Read
A Facebook post shows a photograph of a man with a poster that lists 22 alleged UN and WEF “goals”. Read
The quote now circulating on social media is originally from a clearly labelled political sketch in the Guardian. Read
A video shared on social media was filmed during evacuations from Kabul in August 2021, not in Ukraine. Read
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