Fact checks of content undertaken as part of Full Fact’s work on the Third Party Fact Checking Programme with Facebook
Posts claiming that viruses are just dead material and the body contains many viruses don’t disprove the fact that Covid-19 can be very harmful. Read
Real-terms pay for staff at the top of band 5 fell from £33,007 in 2010/11 to £30,112 in real-terms between 2010/11 and 2019/20. Read
The fabricated quote appears to refer to an interview she gave to Sky News where she was asked about Mercy Baguma. Read
An expletive has been added in. Read
A Facebook post makes misleading claims about the survival rates of people eating in restaurants without masks. Read
Health
The guidance includes a maximum number of people in the chamber and remote voting. Read
Health
Ministers attending a Cabinet meeting appear to be adhering to workplace Covid guidance. Read
Social media posts claim the government is trying to quietly change the rules on unlicensed vaccines, but they’ve missed the point. Read
Fines for breaking ‘rule of six’ start at £50 if paid on time. Read
Health
It claims the risk of catching Covid-19 is 44 million to one. This is a misreading of the fact that daily infections were 44 per million in England, and have since risen. Read
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