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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
If you get sent something on WhatsApp that you think might be false, you can reach our team of independent fact checkers directly on 07521 770995.
A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
If you get sent something on WhatsApp that you think might be false, you can reach our team of independent fact checkers directly on 07521 770995.
A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
If you get sent something on WhatsApp that you think might be false, you can reach our team of independent fact checkers directly on 07521 770995.
A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
If you get sent something on WhatsApp that you think might be false, you can reach our team of independent fact checkers directly on 07521 770995.
A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
If you get sent something on WhatsApp that you think might be false, you can reach our team of independent fact checkers directly on 07521 770995.
A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
If you get sent something on WhatsApp that you think might be false, you can reach our team of independent fact checkers directly on 07521 770995.
A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
If you get sent something on WhatsApp that you think might be false, you can reach our team of independent fact checkers directly on 07521 770995.
A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
If you get sent something on WhatsApp that you think might be false, you can reach our team of independent fact checkers directly on 07521 770995.
A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- Analysing the last televised leadership debate
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- Analysing the first head-to-head leadership debate
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- Conservative leadership candidates fact checked
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- What payouts do ministers receive when they leave office?
- Boris Johnson repeats false claim about Keir Starmer voting 48 times to ‘take us back’ into the EU
- Has Boris Johnson actually resigned?
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- Successful asylum seekers will not return from Rwanda
- Old image of Glastonbury aftermath re-emerges on social media
- Average salary of workers involved in RMT national rail strike is not £44,000
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- Labour and Conservatives make misleading claims about affordable housing
- Decision to stop Rwanda flight nothing to do with EU
- No evidence one refugee from Rwanda will come to the UK for every asylum seeker sent there
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- BBC didn’t ‘censor’ audio of crowd booing over Boris Johnson clip
- Survey of GPs’ retirement plans is not reliable
- The Spanish Meteorological Agency has not ‘confessed’ to using chemtrails
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- Green levy costs do not make up 25% of energy bills
- Shadow cabinet member uses misleading £2,600 cost of living figure on BBC, ITV and Sky
- Government minister made misleading claim about employment figures
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- Reports that ‘most teachers’ are suffering from depression are based on a self-selecting survey
- A man wasn’t jailed just for staring at a woman
- There’s no hard evidence behind the claim holidaymakers have 50% chance of ‘timely’ passport renewal
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- Conservative and Labour leaders’ GMB interviews: Fact checked
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- Labour election leaflets and adverts wrongly claim families are ‘£2,620 worse off’
- Boris Johnson makes false employment claim for ninth time in Parliament
- Did David Blunkett propose sending asylum seekers abroad in 2004?
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- Thérèse Coffey wrong to claim employment is up over the pandemic
- Keir Starmer wrong to say families will be £2,620 worse off this year
- Nadine Dorries didn’t say ‘food doesn’t grow on trees’
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast:
- Why Rishi Sunak’s wife’s tax status isn’t a direct consequence of her citizenship
- Keir Starmer wrong to suggest taxes aren’t rising on stocks and shares
- No evidence ‘vast majority’ of people crossing Channel in small boats are economic migrants
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- Labour overstates amount spent on ‘dodgy PPE’ which will be burnt
- Is sharing photographs of prisoners of war banned by the Geneva Convention?
- No evidence for MP’s claims ‘tens of thousands of people’ have ‘suffered severe damage’ from vaccines
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast:
- Did Labour invent the ‘hostile environment’?
- Is sharing photographs of prisoners of war banned by the Geneva Convention?
- Sajid Javid wrong on government guidance for Ukraine family visas
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- Government fails to back up Russian sanction claims
- Boris Johnson’s claims on UK accepting people fleeing conflict miss vital context
- Photograph of men in military uniform doesn’t show squad members of FC Dynamo Kyiv
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- Disinformation in Ukraine
- Boris Johnson wrong on employment figures for seventh time
- Maajid Nawaz gets Covid all wrong on Joe Rogan’s podcast
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- Storms with female names are not ‘more deadly’ because people underestimate them
- Driving during a red weather warning won’t void your insurance
- ‘Storm Eunice video' supposedly showing crane fall in Portsmouth is actually from Poland
- Washington Post overstates prevalence of long Covid
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- Mirror’s claim that households will be £2,000 a year poorer overstates impact of inflation
- West Yorkshire Police is not investigating the Covid vaccine programme
- No link between Covid vaccines and new HIV strain
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- Boris Johnson recycles online claim about Keir Starmer and Jimmy Savile
- Michael Gove incorrect to say 97% of PPE procured 'fit-for-purpose'
- Rishi Sunak wrong to say it’s been a colder than usual winter
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- GB News presenter makes incorrect claims about Covid-19 deaths
- Fake government guidance is wrong about face masks and equality laws
- Viral claims of Australian children dying from vaccine have no evidence
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- Daily Express overstates Brexit trade value (again)
- Prime Minister’s Questionables: Employment, the economy and PPE
- Dialling 55 during 999 call won’t automatically send police to your location
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- Doctor who challenged Sajid Javid made misleading claims about vaccines
- Conservative ministers repeat Prime Minister’s false employment claims
- Betty White did not get a Covid booster vaccine three days before she died
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- Three things Boris Johnson got wrong at the first PMQs of the Year
- And no, The Guardian didn’t deactivate ‘Person of the Year’ poll because J.K. Rowling took the lead
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- Lorraine Kelly and her guests were wrong about Covid-19 patients
- Do police normally investigate things that happened a year ago?
- Boris Johnson did receive his third Covid-19 vaccine
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- Concerns raised about legitimacy of research linking vaccines and heart attacks
- Resettlement figures don’t give us the full picture on refugee numbers
- Misleading for Nadine Dorries to say Channel 4 is ‘in receipt of taxpayers’ money’
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- Peston claim that immigration is top public concern based on his own findings
- Numbers ‘in work’ not yet back to pre-pandemic levels
- And no, Dominic Raab didn’t say he watched Peppa Pig with his parents when he was young
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- Study doesn’t show masks cause 53% drop in Covid risk
- Scotland’s electricity consumption isn’t 100% renewable
- Unvaccinated people aren’t 32,000 times more likely to die from Covid
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast:
- Covid-19 hospitalisations are below last year, not 14 times higher as NHS CEO claimed
- Be wary of claims Covid-19 deaths “soar” on Tuesdays
- Poll didn’t indicate the majority want a new Covid-19 lockdown
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast:
- BBC presenter corrects false claim about Owen Paterson vote
- Why are media outlets reporting the Covid epidemic is escalating?
- Guardian wrong to suggest unvaccinated deaths are the majority currently
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- Murky claims about sewage bill fact checked
- Observer Twitter poll data on air monitors is meaningless
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast:
- Nigel Farage understates renewable energy generation
- Viral tweet overstates UK’s lead in Covid-19 cases
- Bill Gates’ £400m claim about green investment was wrong
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- Daily Mail report on GPs seeing fewer patients on Fridays needs more context
- MailOnline muddles professorship ethnicity figures
- Most police have not been found guilty of sexual misconduct
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- Covid-19 vaccines aren’t comparable to thalidomide scandal
- Covid vaccines passed animal trials
- There’s no evidence the Covid vaccines make blood look different
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast:
- No, health won’t account for 40% of all public spending
- New healthcare workers suicide figures should be treated with caution
- The government did not give £37 billion to Serco
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- Daily Mail understates the risks of Covid-19 to children
- Viral video makes incorrect claims about teenagers and vaccine consent
- How soon after childbirth can you have a Covid-19 vaccine?
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- Did Sajid Javid open a ‘new hospital’ in Carlisle?
- Covid testing hasn't left 12 million on NHS waiting lists
- Breastfeeding after Covid-19 vaccine is recommended as safe
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- What do we know about Covid-19 vaccines and fertility?
- What we know about Covid-19 vaccines and miscarriages
- And how long should you wait between vaccines if you’re pregnant?
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- Caller on BBC Radio 2 misinterprets Yellow Card data
- Headlines misrepresent risks of hydrogen boilers
- And what extra expenses can MPs claim if they have children?
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- The rules on medical consent for Covid vaccines for teens
- The government’s numbers on savings for wine drinkers don’t add up
- And the cost of NHS Test and Trace in its first year was £13.5bn
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- Robert Peston overstates importance of Covid reinfection figures
- The CDC has not said that PCR tests don’t work
- And Boris Johnson has not been vaccinated against Covid three times
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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- Lord Sumption makes several errors about Covid on BBC Radio 4's Today programme
- Richard Tice makes misleading claims about Covid vaccines and fertility
- And the EU doesn't have a 40% tariff on African food imports
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A politics podcast that's actually factual.A new episode from the UK's independent charity fighting back against bad information and holding the media and politicians to account.
With hundreds of thousands of people in the UK self-isolating every week, we discuss the 'pingdemic' and the legal obligations of those contacted by Test and Trace or alerted by the NHS Covid App. We then go through the history of the government's views on vaccine passports and explain how they might work in practice.
A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- What has the Prime Minister said about the booing of England players?
- The Pfizer vaccine is not 99% graphene oxide
- And no, your fuel tank won’t explode if you fill it during a heatwave
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A politics podcast that's actually factual.A new episode from the UK's independent charity fighting back against bad information and holding the media and politicians to account.
Renewed arguments over ‘gesture politics’ and taking the knee are back in the news - and along with it, a phrase we’ve heard a lot recently: the culture war. But what is it? And how are the media using misleading surveys to exploit the issue.
A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- Michael Gove and ‘apparent bias’
- The Times misrepresents survey results on ‘wokeism’ on front page
- And why school testing data doesn’t tell the full story
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A politics podcast that's actually factual.A new episode from the UK's independent charity fighting back against bad information and holding the media and politicians to account.
Following the Prime Minister's unlocking announcement, we analyse the Covid figures and resolve confusion about the effectiveness of face masks.
A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- Pandemic school attendance: fact checked
- Telegraph (wrongly) suggests 9% of England dies each year
- Vaccinated people sometimes die of Covid-19—but very rarely
- How common is sexual abuse in schools?
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A politics podcast that's actually factual.A new episode from the UK's independent charity fighting back against bad information and holding the media and politicians to account.
Following his resignation as Health Secretary, questions remain to be answered about Matt Hancock in regards to the ministerial code and his reported use of his personal email to conduct government business. We discuss this, the haranguing of Chris Whitty...and whether you're allowed to hug your mates if England score a goal.
A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- Christian Eriksen did not have Covid vaccine before collapse, says Inter Milan CEO
- Labour’s record on unemployment
- More than 30 people are allowed to protest, despite Met Police claims
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A politics podcast that's actually factual.A new episode from the UK's independent charity fighting back against bad information and holding the media and politicians to account.Brexit has been back in the news, with Boris Johnson confirming a trade deal between the UK and Australia. Meanwhile, a dispute between the UK and the EU over sausages is causing problems in Northern Ireland. We take on Brexit fact checks old and new.
Plus we look into false claims linking footballer Christian Eriksen's cardiac arrest with vaccines and discuss CPR guides going viral on social media.
A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- What is happening to your NHS data?
- Boris Johnson was broadly right about aid spending at PMQs
- Matt Hancock and hospital to care home transmission
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A politics podcast that's actually factual.A new episode from the UK's independent charity fighting back against bad information and holding the media and politicians to account.Following appearances on Andrew Marr and at the Science and Technology Select Committee, we dissect conflicting claims made by Health Secretary Matt Hancock.
We explain the controversy and options available to people concerned their NHS GP data is about to be "sold."
And we look into claims made by Boris Johnson at PMQs about foreign aid.
A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- False claims about vaccines on ITV’s This Morning
- The BBC did not claim that just 350 people attended last weekend’s anti-lockdown protest
- And Stone Roses’ singer Ian Brown is wrong about giving blood after vaccination.
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A politics podcast that's actually factual.A new episode from the UK's independent charity fighting back against bad information and holding the media and politicians to account.Following Saturday's anti-lockdown march in London, we discuss the difficulties in making precise estimates about crowd sizes, looking at famous protests from the past few years.
We debunk misleading claims made by Beverley Turner about the Covid vaccines on This Morning
And after the WHO renamed virus variants after Greek letters, we analyse the language of Covid-19 throughout the pandemic.
A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
This week Dominic Cummings, the former Chief Adviser to PM Boris Johnson, made a series of claims about the Government's handling of the pandemic. We break down the facts behind some of what was claimed.
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A politics podcast that's actually factual.The third episode of a new series from the UK's independent charity fighting back against bad information and holding the media and politicians to account.In light of Dominic Cummings' select committee evidence, host Alexis Conran and Full Fact CEO Will Moy discuss herd immunity and government communications.
We also discuss the phenomenon of 'Edlines' - when a newspaper article completely contradicts its own headline.
And on new feature "I Can't Believe They Fact Checked It," we explain the need to fact check an unusual claim that the Covid vaccine will make you 'bluetooth enabled.'
A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
- Can you go on holiday to 'amber list' countries?
- Fake missing child reports used to scam Facebook users.
- Covid-19 vaccines haven’t caused 3,362 deaths in America or 1,102 in the UK.
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A politics podcast that's actually factual.The second episode of a new series from the UK's independent charity fighting back against bad information and holding the media and politicians to account.Host Alexis Conran and Full Fact CEO Will Moy dispel the confusion surrounding the government's travel advice.
Ministers have given conflicting advice on whether travel to 'Amber List' countries is acceptable. We analyse what they've said, and what the official guidance actually permits.
Meanwhile, Alastair Campbell is in our Twitter Hall of Shame, and the Sunday papers are the focus of Media Watch.
The Sun is wrong to claim that lockdown doubled suicide rates, you don’t usually need photo ID to pick up a parcel, and - no - honey, ginger and pepper isn’t approved treatment for Covid-19. A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
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A politics podcast that's actually factual.
A new series from the UK's independent charity fighting back against bad information and holding the media and politicians to account.
Host Alexis Conran and Full Fact CEO Will Moy separate the facts from the false claims around the Queen's Speech.
We debunk false information about Voter ID, electoral fraud and the Online Safety Bill.
And it's The Daily Express and The Sun under the microscope in Media Watch as we pick apart four of their articles containing misleading claims.
- A map in the Daily Express uses all the wrong numbers
- Telegraph headline linking depression and social media isn't backed up by article
- Bill Gates has not bought Telegram
A week of independent, impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
A politics podcast that's actually factual.
A new series from the UK's independent fact checking charity, fighting bad information and holding the media and politicians to account.
Episodes released weekly from Friday May 14th.
- Boris Johnson promised to publish his Dyson communications—we’re still waiting on “all the details,"
- Conservative support may have fallen—but not when the Guardian says it did
- The Express muddles up the dangers of Covid-19 in pregnancy
A week of independent, impartial fact checks in one short blast.
The Full Fact Podcast returns for Series 3 next Friday.
- Pub landlord vs Keir Starmer: what you need to know about lockdowns
- European Super League: fake stories debunked
- We don’t know if the ‘Nigerian variant’ is more deadly
A week of independent, impartial fact checks in a quick three minute blast.
In January, 60 councils across England were given money by the government to help spread Covid-19 vaccine advice through trusted “Community Champions”. We talked to some of them about what they’ve been doing, what’s been working, and the challenges ahead.
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The weekend Covid-19 death figures need more context, poverty is not the same as food insecurity, and the Covid vaccine did not kill every animal it was tested on. A week of independent, impartial fact checks in a handy three minute blast.
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Zero hours workers are not excluded from self-isolation payments, Twitter poll results don’t show ‘wide support’ for Thailand’s travel policy - and what is going on with the AstraZeneca vaccine? A week of our independent, impartial fact checks condensed into a three minute blast.
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Government asylum claims based on unpublished data, lateral flow tests are not unsafe, and everything you need to know about the Home Office’s ‘eyebrow’ spending. A week of independent, impartial fact checks in a three minute blast.
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Covid-19 vaccine exports and the UK, burnt-out police car in Bristol protests was not fake, and what’s the deal with NHS pay rises? A week of independent, impartial fact checks in a quick three minute blast.
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Clapham protester is not same woman injured in Parsons Green Tube attack, 17 countries haven’t ‘banned’ the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, and Daily Mail (finally) issues correction. A week of independent, impartial fact checks in one three minute blast.
Misleading claims about Serco’s role in Test and Trace resurface, side effects from the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines are about the same, and what happens when school pupils test positive for Covid-19? A week of independent, impartial fact checks from the UK's independent fact checking charity in a three minute blast.
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The link between vitamin D and Covid-19 is complex, HPV testing kits are not smear tests, and are 3 in 10 people really failing to self-isolate properly? A week of our independent, impartial fact checks in a quick three minute blast!
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The National Audit Office did not claim there was never a national PPE shortage, we don’t know exactly how much Test and Trace affects the spread of Covid-19 and we can’t say if Test and Trace has cost more than the Channel Tunnel - yet. A week of independent, impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
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Evidence doesn’t show 400,000 people have long Covid ‘right now,’ study doesn’t say most vapers are 17% more likely to transmit Covid, and did EU exports really drop 68% in January? A week of our independent, impartial fact checks in a three minute(ish) blast.
Labour’s figures on the cladding crisis are far too high, people giving Covid-19 vaccines won’t be tried as war criminals, and the Covid-19 survival rate is not 99.991% for under 60s. A week of independent, impartial fact checks in a short three minute blast.
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Keir Starmer did want the UK to remain in the European Medicines Agency, warnings over NHS coronavirus vaccine scam email, and 53 people have not died in Gibraltar because of the Covid-19 vaccine. A week of independent, impartial fact checks in a quick three minute blast.
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Report of 8% vaccine efficacy for elderly debunked by German government, several coronavirus claims made by MP in newspaper are inaccurate and one in six may refuse the Covid-19 vaccine. A week of independent, impartial fact checks in a quick three minute blast.
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73,444 deaths registered in 2020 in England and Wales had Covid-19 as the underlying cause, we don’t know whether teachers are more likely than the general population to catch Covid, and what you need to know about claims that 23 people died after getting vaccinated in Norway. A week of independent, impartial fact checks in a three minute(ish) blast!
What do we know - and not know - about the reported shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) in UK hospitals during the first Covid-19 lockdown? Using freedom of information requests, Full Fact investigates.
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Despite what some people in the media say, more people are dying than usual at the moment.
The government spent £63,000 on influencer marketing for Test and Trace.
And do you need to carry proof if you’re exempt from wearing a mask?
A week of our independent, impartial fact checks in three(ish) minutes.
Was 2020 the year that QAnon arrived in the UK? We discuss the country's embracement of conspiracy in the third of a series of Full Fact short investigations.
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Coronavirus transmission in hospitals is difficult to understand and even harder to solve. Full Fact investigates what we already know, what we don’t—and what the future might hold.
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Join us for our Christmas special, as our fact checkers get together to reminisce on the weirdest fact checks of the year, including one woman's trip to a mayonnaise factory leading to a viral myth about poisonous onions.
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The first of a series of Full Fact short investigations looks into claims made by prominent lockdown sceptics in the UK.
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The new vaccination card is not a ‘Covid passport,’ school funding hasn’t increased by £5k per pupil, and vaccine approval wasn't quicker because of Brexit. A week of our independent, impartial fact checks - in three(ish) minutes.
“Who funds you?” “Who fact checks the fact checkers?” “How do you decide what to fact check?” “Who really funds you???” We’re bombarded with these questions every day - so we've tried to answer everything you could possibly want to know about us. So if you’ve ever wondered how Full Fact works, this is for you.
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RNA Covid-19 vaccines will not change your DNA, The Pfizer Covid-19 candidate vaccine is not too cold to be called a vaccine - and FOIs sent to NHS trusts are real, but don't show the full story. A week of independent, impartial fact checks in a quick three minute blast.
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‘Politician’ is consistently polled as one of the least trustworthy professions in the UK. But how much of a problem is misinformation in politics? And how can fact checkers keep politicians - and the media - honest? We discuss with former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and new Conservative MP Selaine Saxby.
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The Daily Mail’s chart of Covid-19 death figures doesn’t use the real numbers, MP Nadine Dorries says email from her office on vaccines does not reflect her views, and research suggesting increased Covid-19 risk for dog-owners may be barking up the wrong tree. Our weekly hit of fact checks in less time than it takes to listen to a song.
False information is created much faster and at a much greater volume than a human can possibly keep up with. But will this always be the case? Can technology prevent bad information from spreading, the moment it is created? How far away is this technology, and what tools do we already have now? The founder and the head of our Automated Fact Checking team explain.
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The Covid-19 recovery rate is not 99.9%, the infection fatality rate is higher than 0.1%, and the number of people dying right now is not the same as in any other year. A week of our independent, impartial fact checks in a quick three minute(ish) blast.
Vaccine hesitancy has been identified by the WHO as one of the top ten health concerns facing the world. A low vaccine uptake led to the removal of the UK’s ‘measles free’ status recently, and misinformation is only exacerbating the problem. So why are people reluctant to be vaccinated, despite the proven efficacy of vaccines? We speak to the Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project, Professor Heidi Larson.
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The government is not proposing to make a Covid-19 vaccine mandatory, there's no evidence aluminium in vaccines causes Alzheimer's disease, and a Daily Express opinion piece is wrong to allege evidence of widespread voter fraud in US elections. A week of our independent, impartial fact checks in a quick three minute blast!
From the moon landing being a hoax to the Queen being a reptile - conspiracy theories are everywhere. But with the advent of social media, it’s never been easier for them to be shared. But why do people believe them? What is it about certain people that makes them more susceptible to these theories? And can they be convinced otherwise once they’ve taken hold?
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The Daily Mirror misrepresents research on public support for Brexit, BBC presenters did remove their poppies as they were wearing them earlier than BBC guidelines allow, and a Covid-19 vaccine is not being administered via Covid-19 nasal swab tests. A week of independent, impartial fact checks in less than three minutes.
During an election period there’s a lot to gain and a lot to lose. Access to good information is vital to making an informed decision. But how difficult is it to avoid bad information in the lead up to the polls? We speak to Craig Silverman, the man who coined the phrase ‘fake news,’ about the recent US elections and compare the misinformation landscape to the UK’s.
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What does research tell us about "Long Covid?" How many doctors are there in the NHS compared to last year? And will soy sauce get cheaper once the UK leaves the EU? All answered in our three-minute Fact Blast!
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What makes a bot bad? Bots have been used for years in customer service for good, but what happens when they are programmed for wrongdoing? Is what you are seeing on social media real? How can you know whether the person you’re interacting with is human? We delve into the secrets of social media bots, and the science behind them.
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What exactly is an Australia-style Brexit deal? Where are Covid-19 results registered for university students? And how are cases traced in schools? All answered in our three-minute Fact Blast!
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We often think of misinformation as a modern problem. But its roots go back thousands of years. In this episode we explore the history of false information and track how it has developed into the ‘fake news’ climate we see today.
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On this week's blast - contrary to what you might have seen or read, Covid and flu statistics are not being combined by Public Health England, data comparisons about Covid deaths are published by the Office for National Statistics, and the Irish test and trace system did not cost less than a million pounds. A week of independent, impartial fact checks all in a quick three minute blast!
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Is false information ‘everywhere?’ How does misinformation manifest itself in other nations? We talk to fact checkers from across the globe to explore the similarities in misinformation, and what makes the UK unique. We look at patterns in Europe before moving over to Africa and the Americas to discover the different landscapes of information in our respective continents.
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On this week's blast - Boris Johnson makes a mistake when talking about lump-sum payments for those self-isolating, Sun journalist gets it wrong on London crime figures, and a viral Facebook post makes a false claim about the "second-wave." A week of independent, impartial fact checks in a quick three minute blast!
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What happens when you can no longer believe what you’re seeing? Deep Fakes have often been touted as an emerging tool of disinformation, but how big is the problem now, and how big will it get? World-leading photo forensics expert Dr Hany Farid joins us from California to explain how the technology is improving, and whether the detection technology can keep up with its progress. Could you personally spot a ‘deep fake’ - and will you be able to in ten years’ time?
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On the Fact Blast this week: Claims about who runs the Test and Trace app, a misreading of data leads to newspapers publishing false information about where Covid is spreading - and an fitness account on Instagram makes obesity claims that could be misinterpreted. A week of independent, impartial fact checks - in a quick three minute blast.
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Question Time testing muddle, the 'COBRA photo' that wasn't a COBRA photo, and debunking the claim that the government are harvesting our DNA from Covid-19 tests..! A week of independent, impartial fact checks in a quick three minute blast.
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The UK/Japan trade deal, Covid testing boycotts - and a false claim about poppies re-emerges for another year. A week of independent, impartial fact checks in a quick three minute blast!
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Matt Hancock and Jonathan Ashworth clash in the Commons, University and College Union share unrealistic Covid prediction - and some wildly inaccurate death figures get mixed up with the truth on Facebook. All on this week's three minute Fact Blast.
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Fact checking Matt Hancock's claims about suicide figures in lockdown, viral social media posts about Children in Need and Black Lives Matter, and debunking significantly exaggerated asylum seeker figures. It's a three minute Fact Blast from the UK's independent, impartial fact checking charity.
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Flu deaths vs Covid deaths, the risk of infection in schools, and a Labour MP's claims about tax and asylum seekers - fact checked by our independent and impartial team. Go into the long weekend informed with a three minute Fact Blast!
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TV licenses for asylum seekers, a fake quote going viral, and the true cost of the Track and Trace app. Get a week's worth of our independent, impartial fact checks in a digestible three minute blast.
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Flawed polls are on the menu in this week's Fact Blast - seven days of fact checking in a quick three minute dose!
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A week of independent, impartial fact checks - in under three minutes. In this week's blast - Minister "misspeaks" on testing figures - Viral egging video was just a yolk - Widely publicised poll was so flawed you couldn't even respond with the correct answer.
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Get the right information at a time when good information has never been more important, with our three minute weekly fact blast. This week we go through Dominic Raab's claims quarantine, a viral analogy comparing the Blitz Spirit to mask wearing - and more vaccine misinformation circulating on Facebook.
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A week's worth of our fact checks in a three minute blast to keep you up to date going into the weekend. In this week's blast: NHS workers' overtime, The BBC's coverage of Vera Lynn's funeral and inaccurate malnutrition reporting. The Full Fact Podcast will return for a second series soon, until then you can enjoy our short fact blasts every Friday morning!
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A week's worth of our fact checks in a three minute blast to keep you up to date going into the weekend. In this week's blast: face mask effectiveness, Leicester's local lockdown and unrealistic claims from Independent SAGE. The Full Fact Podcast will return for a second series soon!
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A week's worth of our fact checks in a three minute blast to keep you up to date going into the weekend. In this week's blast: coronavirus 'cures,' Facebook 'scams' and Boris Johnson's testing claims. The Full Fact Podcast will return for a second series soon!
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What has the coronavirus taught us about misinformation? What patterns have we noticed emerging throughout the pandemic? And what can we learn from bad information spreading in other European nations? (Almost) the entire Full Fact team discuss these questions and more. If you enjoyed this podcast, chip in £10 and support Full Fact's work: fullfact.org/podcast
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The team discuss what makes a Track and Trace app "functional," how to spot a fake Black Lives Matter poster - and why a rumour about hand sanitiser spontaneously combusting spread so quickly. Listen to The Full Fact Podcast every Friday morning.
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Fact checking Marcus Rashford's letter to MPs, Black Lives Matter protests and counter-protests, and the Test and Trace app. Join host Alexis Conran and our team of fact checkers as we go through the viral claims made on social media and in traditional newspapers this week.
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The Full Fact team discuss the limitations of what we can say about early lockdowns, establish the facts about antibody test accuracy, and debunk a popular social media myth about Italian coronavirus autopsies.
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Our fact checking team take a deep dive into health misinformation. Why does it spread? Who spreads it? And how susceptible are we? We also address claims about the UK's testing record, the safety of schools returning and and explain the potential danger of phishing scams exploiting the launch of the NHS Test and Trace service.
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Our fact checking team analyse Dominic Cummings' trip to Durham against the law and government guidance at the time, look into claims that 50 French schools have had to close because of new coronavirus cases, and answer your questions.
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People have been quick to make comparisons between the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic and the current Covid-19 crisis. Our team of fact checkers are joined by the author of 'Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World' to shed light on the truths and mistruths about the pandemic. We also discuss nurses pay, zombie claims and misleading photography.
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Full Fact's fact checking team discuss the latest false claims about the coronavirus. Alexis Conran and the team try to clear up the confusion surrounding the new lockdown guidelines, and we explain what makes a good poll.
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In the fourth episode of the Full Fact Podcast, our fact checking team tackle claims on coronavirus testing, shielding, and supposed 'government Twitter bots'. And we take a deep-dive into the Covid-19 death statistics.
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In the third episode of the Full Fact Podcast, members of our fact-checking team join Alexis Conran to discuss the latest false claims, including 'old school fake news' about the coronavirus vaccine and a fake viral post attributed to Jennifer Saunders. We also take a deep-dive into The Full Fact Report: 2020 discussing the causes and consequences of bad information over the last decade.
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The second episode of the Full Fact Podcast focusing on the UK's coronavirus testing efforts. Host Alexis Conran is joined by members of our fact checking team to discuss the latest false claims about Covid-19, including fake nurses, a different kind of fake nurses and the effectiveness of masks.
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The first episode of the Full Fact Podcast. Members of our fact-checking team join Alexis Conran to discuss the latest false claims about the coronavirus, with a particular spotlight on the 5G bad information that has come to the fore in recent weeks.
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