Fact checks of content undertaken as part of Full Fact’s work on the Third Party Fact Checking Programme with Facebook
Shopping
Posts and adverts falsely claim Boots is selling Rituals giftsets for under £10 in exchange for people completing a short survey. Read
Conflict
A video of a young Ukrainian soldier crying and saying he doesn’t want to die was made using artificial intelligence. Read
Shopping
Facebook posts and adverts falsely claim people who fill out a survey or leave a review will receive a free box of clothes from the retailer. Read
Shopping
False claims that Tesco is offering a box full of meat products for £3, either as a new online promotion or for filling out a survey, have been shared on Facebook. Read
Shopping
Posts and an advert on Facebook are falsely claiming that people aged 40 and older can get a metal detector for £10 from Go Outdoors after filling in a survey. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Posts shared on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube make a number of comparisons between prices of things like energy in 2000 and 2026, but some of the figures used are incorrect. Read
United States
An image of President Trump and his mother is being shared on social media alongside an unsubstantiated quote in which she criticises him. Read
Environment
The Northern Lights seen across much of the UK this week were caused by a severe geomagnetic storm produced by the sun, not, as some claimed online, by the HAARP research facility in Alaska. Read
Shopping
Amazon confirmed it is not giving away HP laptops that have been in storage for over a year. Read
Immigration
Images of men in balaclavas slashing ‘migrant dinghies’ aren’t real and were likely made with AI. Read
