Facebook posts about missing woman with dementia are hoaxes
The posts appear in community groups across the UK and even in the US. Read
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Social media
Fact checks of content undertaken as part of Full Fact’s work on the Third Party Fact Checking Programme with Facebook
Health
Official death data doesn’t tell us whether junior doctors’ strikes cost lives
A Telegraph article claimed that strikes were a factor behind a spike in deaths in England. But a similar spike occurred in Wales, where there were no strikes. Read
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Hoax alerts for missing pensioner shared thousands of times
Identical posts falsely claiming a man named Martin Jones has gone missing have been shared across the UK. Read
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List of ‘Communist Rules for Revolution’ has been widely debunked
There’s little evidence that the list, which was shared by Andrew Bridgen MP, is a genuine Communist document. Read
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Emergency alert won’t give government access to your location or personal data
The alert works via cell towers that send the message to all connected devices in their area. Read
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Emergency alert test is not an ‘activation signal’ for a vaccine ‘pathogen’
Posts on social media appear to claim the test will activate a “pathogen” in the Covid-19 vaccine. Read
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The HAARP research facility didn’t produce peculiar clouds
The clouds pictured in a social media post have nothing to do with the Alaskan research facility that is essentially a large radio transmitter used to study the upper parts of the atmosphere. Read
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Health
The UK is not being flooded with contaminated drugs
Former nurse and campaigner Kate Shemirani has wrongly claimed that contaminated drugs are “flooding the UK” and prescription medication is one of the top three causes of death. Read
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Police appeal for mother of abandoned abandoned baby in Walsall is fake
West Midlands police confirmed social media posts about an abandoned baby boy are not true. Read
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No evidence Bill Gates talked about putting ‘vaccines in our food supply’
There’s no record of him tweeting it and his foundation says he never did. Read
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