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Old aerial footage of a glacier in Alaska has been shared with false claims it shows the glacier that caused the deadly flood in Nepal last month. fullfact.org/world/old-video…
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Ahead of the Budget, our new explainer takes a look at how the amount of tax the government collects, and the amount of tax paid by the ‘average worker’, compares historically and internationally.
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.@mpmwilko told the Liberal Democrat conference that “not a single small boat crossed the Channel” before the Brexit referendum.
That’s not true. Small boat crossings have risen significantly in recent years, but they did happen before June 2016.
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A post claiming migrants crossing the Channel who are rescued by the RNLI or Border Force automatically become refugees has been shared over a thousand times on Facebook.
But this isn’t true. Refugee status is only granted after a successful asylum claim.
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You may have seen social media posts misrepresenting the Labour candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, Sagal Abdi-Wali, as an asylum seeker.
Ms Abdi-Wali came to the UK as a child refugee in the 1990s, and is now listed as a British citizen.
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Many social media users appear to have been fooled by a fake picture that supposedly shows four teachers protesting against the removal of pride flags from their classrooms.
But the image is AI-generated and contains several classic clues like nonsense text.
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Ahead of the Budget, our new explainer takes a look at how the amount of tax the government collects, and the amount of tax paid by the ‘average worker’, compares historically and internationally. fullfact.org/economy/tax-rev…
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A video of protests in Greece has been shared on Facebook with the claim that the country “is at a standstill”.
But the clip is actually from February 2025 - it shows a demonstration marking the anniversary of a rail disaster.
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On his GB News show Nigel Farage claimed threshold freezes are “dragging about nine million pensioners into taxation”.
In fact, the OBR estimates the actual number of pensioners who will be brought into paying income tax because of the freezes is much lower.
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Old aerial footage of a glacier in Alaska has been shared with false claims it shows the glacier that caused the deadly flood in Nepal last month. fullfact.org/world/old-video…
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Reform UK’s @ZiaYusufUK claimed the UK’s foreign-born population in 2024 was “up 143% in a decade”.
This is incorrect - estimates suggest the increase over a decade was much less. His figure may refer to an estimate of the increase over 20 years instead.
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Full Fact has seen several social media posts and adverts promoting the launch of a new ‘Monzo slots’ casino site. But, the bank has confirmed this has nothing to do with them and urged customers to be alert to such material.
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We’re grateful to Stirling Council for correcting information on its website about the allowance paid to asylum seekers in catered accommodation.
Since June 2025, this weekly payment has been £9.95.
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A video shared over a thousand times online falsely claims no plane hit the South Tower on 9/11.
The clip was altered to remove Flight 175. Original footage filmed by a photojournalist and broadcast at the time clearly shows the plane hitting the tower.
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The shadow business minister @BradleyThomasUK claimed in parliament that new apprenticeships fell 9% from 2023/24 to 2025/26.
They actually rose about 11%. Mr Thomas was using English data comparing an incomplete year with a whole one.
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40 years on from the Challenger space shuttle disaster, conspiracy theories are being shared on social media suggesting that the accident was a hoax and that the seven deceased astronauts are still alive.
This is patently false.
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We’ve seen posts pop up again on social media claiming to show a story written by Bill Gates on “depopulation through forced vaccination”.
He didn’t write the article. And it misinterprets other quotes he’s made about slowing population growth.
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A house that miraculously survived the floods in Nepal became famous on social media.
But the picture of it shared by a large account on Facebook is an AI-generated fake.
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A video of Notting Hill Carnival has been repeatedly shared with claims the white population of London has dropped to 34%.
2021 census data shows 53.8% of London identified as white. Just over 36% said they were white British.
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Housing secretary Angela Rayner has said there’s a “slim chance” the government will achieve its target of building 1.5 million new homes this parliament.
Our Government Tracker is rating this Labour manifesto pledge as ‘appears off track’. Here’s why 👇
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