Fact checks of content undertaken as part of Full Fact’s work on the Third Party Fact Checking Programme with Facebook
This claim about speed cameras on the M60 and M62 have gone viral, but the national speed limit still stands on these roads. Read
Anti-Semitic claims that Red Cross documents show the Holocaust death toll was well below the widely accepted six million estimate are false. Read
An academic wrote a report proposing the change in 2010, but that wasn’t backed by the government. Read
A post claiming wind turbines can never produce as much energy as was taken to build them is based on a selective quotation and is incorrect. Read
The calculation includes the number of people living in temporary accommodation, hostels and those sleeping rough. Read
18 of the 19 warmest years on record have occurred since 2001, and the average global temperature has increased by about 0.8°C to 1.0°C since the period 1951-1980. Read
A Facebook post has fabricated a quote from Emmanuel Macron about the conditions for the UK if it wants to remain in the EU. Read
A claim that the BBC will add permanent Arabic subtitles to EastEnders, to help refugees and other migrants settle in, is from a satirical news website and not true. Read
The video, from 2015, shows a child, not Shamima Begum, beheading a man in Syria. Read
Muslims who use rooms in their homes as a ‘place of worship’ aren’t exempt from council tax. Read
