Fact checks of content undertaken as part of Full Fact’s work on the Third Party Fact Checking Programme with Facebook
The claim comes from a speech given in 2013 by an author, who has since admitted Monitor is no longer in use in the US. Read
Health
A viral claim on social media that 652 people died in the UK’s worst week of the pandemic is far too low. The true figure is almost 10,000. Read
Amazon confirmed that the offer shared on social media is not genuine. Read
Thousands of people have shared baseless claims about Paul Ansell on social media. Read
Argos says the offer is not genuine. Read
A Facebook post which wrongly claimed the online bank is closing everyone’s accounts was shared over 1,500 times before being deleted. Read
The photograph actually shows a baby that was found at Minneapolis Airport in 2022. Read
The picture used to show the man has previously been shared online in the US with claims the caravan in it has been stolen. Read
King Charles’s carriage passed patches of sand, which some claimed had been used to fill potholes. Read
A picture of so-called “chemtrails” shows frozen trails of water vapour and not harmful chemicals being purposefully sprayed in the atmosphere. Read
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