You don’t need to worry about that video claiming to show a snake in a pepper
A viral video claims to show a poisonous snake in a pepper. It doesn’t. Read
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Jo Swinson said the Liberal Democrats supported an EU referendum in 2008
She also said in 2019 that she couldn’t forgive David Cameron for calling a referendum. Read
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Diane Abbott did not say an Iraqi migrant was found off the coast of a landlocked country
The unedited tweet was actually about a body found off the coast of Belgium. Read
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There was not a 12kg rat in London
A photo of a rat makes it look deceptively big. It almost certainly weighed less than 3kg, rather than 12kg as claimed. Read
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Photo shows Jeremy Corbyn shaking hands with man previously jailed for electoral fraud
A post on Facebook shows a genuine photo of Jeremy Corbyn shaking hands with Tariq Mahmood, who was convicted in 2008 for electoral fraud. Read
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John Major did prorogue parliament for three weeks in 1997
Major’s prorogation in 1997 delayed a report into Conservative MPs taking bribes, whether or not that was his intention. Read
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The price of Freddos has risen five times faster than inflation
The price of Freddos has risen much faster than inflation, and so has the value of the minimum wage. Read
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The ranking of most popular baby names depends on how you count them
Grouping together various spellings of the name Muhammad can push it up the rankings, but so can counting Harrys and Henrys as one group. Read
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This post oversimplifies and confuses details about Hitler’s rise to power
We’ve seen no evidence that Hitler referred to the dissolution of parliament as “the will of the people”. Read
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This post about British Steel’s buyout by Turkish fund is mostly accurate
The Turkish military’s pension fund is the preferred buyer of British Steel, based in Scunthorpe which voted to leave the EU. Read
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