# claims

text: You cannot have more than one person in a car unless in an emergency.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/viral-list-uk-lockdown-rules-not-right/
title: Viral list of UK lockdown rules is not right - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not correct. No guidance on car passengers has been issued although you are meant to keep 2m from people not in your household.


text: Children can’t get the new coronavirus.
claimant: Allison Pearson
claim_date: 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/children-can-get-coronavirus/
title: Children aren’t immune from the new coronavirus - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Children can get Covid-19 but there have been relatively few cases in children and in general, their symptoms tend to be milder.


text: One offender carried out 93 crimes last year before going to jail for the first time.
claimant: i news
claim_date: 2020-02-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/offences-pre-prison-sentence/
title: Context is needed in this article about offences committed prior to prison sentences - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
One person sent to prison for the first time had 93 offences recorded, however there is no data on the time period these offences were committed over. One conviction may include several offences.


claimant: Fraser Nelson
claim_date: 2017-03-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/are-poor-scots-half-likely-get-university-poor-english-pupils/
title: Are poor Scots half as likely to get into university as poor English pupils? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
You are twice as likely to get into university if you are poor and English as if you are poor and Scottish.

textual_rating:
This is probably a reasonable claim, though the comparison is a bit tricky. It also doesn’t account for the substantial amount of higher education provided by further education colleges in Scotland.


text: In the last eight years, university tuition fees have trebled.
claimant: Chuka Umunna MP
claim_date: 2018-05-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/sure-start-schools-tuition-fees/
title: Sure Start, school building and tuition fees: the Conservative and Coalition record - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, they went from a maximum of £3,000 to £9,000 for students beginning higher education in England in 2011/12. They’re now at £9,250.


claimant: The Exposé
claim_date: 2023-04-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/FDA-Pfizer-vaccine-graphene-oxide/
title: FDA document does not say graphene oxide is in Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A document released by the FDA confirms the presence of graphene oxide in the Pfizer vaccine against Covid-19.

textual_rating:
The document explains that graphene oxide was used to support a sample in a microscope during the research process for the vaccine, not in the actual product. The vaccine does not contain graphene oxide.


text: The UK economy is growing more quickly than any of the other G7 countries.
claimant: Conservative manifesto 2017
claim_date: 2017-05-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-still-fastest-growing-g7-economy/
title: Is the UK still the fastest growing G7 economy? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In 2016, the UK economy seems to have grown faster than any G7 country bar Germany, which grew at essentially the same rate.


text: Boris Johnson introduced the 24 hour Freedom Pass.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2022-05-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/boris-johnson-good-morning-britain/
title: Boris Johnson’s GMB interview: fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
As Mayor of London, Boris Johnson did change the Freedom Pass so it applied 24 hours a day on most services, although he did not introduce it originally. Following a bailout deal between Transport for London and Mr Johnson’s government in 2020, it no longer functions 24 hours a day.


text: Children can now expect to receive almost 100 vaccines on the recommended schedule.
claimant: Kate Shemirani
claim_date: 2023-02-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/kate-shemirani-childhood-vaccines/
title: Kate Shemirani makes several false claims about childhood vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not correct. By our count, children in the UK would be offered a maximum of 40 doses by the age of 17.


claimant: The Expose
claim_date: 2022-06-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/expose-covid-vaccine-fertility-depopulation/
title: Covid-19 vaccines do not harm fertility - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A new study and Pfizer documents prove that Covid-19 vaccination is going to cause mass depopulation through infertility and death.

textual_rating:
This is not true. These documents show none of these things. Covid-19 vaccines do not harm fertility.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/ww2-veteran-parade/
title: There is no evidence to say why this veteran is crying - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An image shows a World War Two veteran crying during a parade because he is the last survivor of his battle group.

textual_rating:
This is a picture of man taken during a military parade in Russia in 2007. His identity and the reason for his tears is unknown and has been the subject of much online debate.


text: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has revoked a PCR Covid-19 test.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-07-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/fda-covid-tests/
title: PCR tests have not been revoked by the FDA - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The CDC has withdrawn a request for emergency authorisation for one type of PCR test, but not because of any fault. The FDA has recalled one brand of lateral flow test.


text: A newly published document lists side effects from Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine.
claimant: instagram user
claim_date: 2022-03-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pfizer-document-not-vaccine-side-effects/
title: A newly released document does not reveal ‘side effects’ of the Pfizer vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The document lists adverse events reported after vaccination, which may not have been caused by the vaccine. It also says these adverse events raise no safety concerns.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-10-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/honey-ginger-pepper-WHO/
title: Honey, ginger and pepper isn’t approved treatment for Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Honey, pepper and ginger can ‘100%’ eliminate the effect of Covid-19 and has been approved by the WHO.

textual_rating:
This treatment for Covid-19 has not been approved by the WHO. The WHO says that although some spices may be beneficial for health, there is no evidence that this particular mix can protect from Covid-19 infection.


text: In 2010, a newly qualified teacher’s salary was £21,500 and in 2018 was £22,000.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/public-sector-pay-tweet/
title: This tweet on public sector pay doesn’t factor in inflation - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This doesn’t factor in inflation. In 2018 prices, a new teacher’s salary in a local authority-run school in England and Wales and outside of London was £25,400 in 2010 and £22,900 in 2018.


text: Something has been added to the flu vaccine nasal spray causing children to get very sick or die.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/something-added-to-flu-vaccine-strep-a/
title: Nothing has been ‘added’ to the children’s flu vaccine to cause strep A - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence to suggest this. A study shows fewer strep A infections in areas where more children had the nasal flu vaccine.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/asylum-seekers-aspen-card/
title: Aspen card does not give asylum seekers £175 a week - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Every illegal immigrant receives a payment card loaded with £175, which is renewed weekly, in addition to free meals a day.

textual_rating:
Payment cards currently worth £40.85 a week are given to eligible asylum seekers who cannot afford food. Those who receive free meals receive much less money.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2023-05-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/image-doesnt-show-found-mh370/
title: Image of plane underwater doesn’t show missing MH370 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photo shows that Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 has been found in the ocean with no human remains.

textual_rating:
The picture is of a purposely submerged Lockheed Martin aircraft that divers can visit off the coast of Jordan. The MH370 aircraft has not been found, though debris thought to belong to it has been found on the beaches west of the Indian Ocean.


text: The government spent £44,000 on a toilet for Jeremy Hunt.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2018-09-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/meme-on-government-spending/
title: How much of this meme on government spending is true? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Jeremy Hunt said that a newly fitted bathroom in the Department of Health building was for long distance cyclists, rather than his personal use. The government hasn’t confirmed how much it cost.


text: The top three causes of death here are heart disease, cancer and prescription medication.
claimant: Kate Shemirani
claim_date: 2023-03-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/kate-shemirani-cause-death/
title: The UK is not being flooded with contaminated drugs - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Office for National Statistics’ figures show the top three leading causes of death in England were dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, ischaemic heart diseases, and chronic lower respiratory diseases. That’s looking at the five-year average, age-standardised mortality rates.


text: One in eight refugees who claimed to be children arriving in the UK were in fact adults.
claimant: Yahoo News UK
claim_date: 2018-04-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/how-many-child-asylum-seekers-are-found-be-adults/
title: How many child asylum seekers are found to be adults? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct for unaccompanied child refugees, but is an overestimate of the proportion of all child refugees found to be adults.


text: A newborn baby has been found abandoned in Hengrove, Bristol.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-08-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/abandoned-baby-bristol/
title: False Facebook post claims baby abandoned in Bristol - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The image shows a baby in Thailand two years ago, and the police say they are not aware of a baby being found in Hengrove.


text: Scientists believe that coronavirus may have come from bats in a Chinese research facility.
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2020-02-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-government-laboratory/
review_date: 2020-02-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
There's no evidence that the 2019 coronavirus originated in a Chinese government laboratory - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Two Chinese scientists have published an article suggesting that the 2019 coronavirus outbreak could have originated from bats in a laboratory in Wuhan. However, apart from maps showing the proximity of laboratories, they offer no evidence to prove this.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2019-02-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/brexit-whats-germany-plus-deal/
title: Brexit: What’s a “Germany plus” deal? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-15T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Remaining in the EU gives British businesses the right to buy and sell across Europe without tariffs or checks.


claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2020-03-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/coronavirus-evictions/
title: How many people have been evicted as a result of coronavirus? - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-04-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A survey found 11% of workers who report having taken a financial hit from the coronavirus pandemic have been evicted.

textual_rating:
Housing charity Shelter says there has been a spike in evictions, though not nearly as large a spike as this survey found.


text: Higher tuition fees haven’t put students from disadvantaged backgrounds off going to university.
claimant: Dia Chakravarty
claim_date: 2017-09-21T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2017-09-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/education/whats-been-impact-higher-tuition-fees-disadvantaged-students-going-university/

title:
What’s been the impact of higher tuition fees on disadvantaged students going to university? - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Higher tuition fees do not seem to have affected the longer term trend of increasing proportions of young disadvantaged students (and young students of all backgrounds) going to university. Mature student numbers have fluctuated. We don’t know if the numbers going to university would be higher if tuition fees hadn’t been increased.


text: Covid-19 vaccines were not tested on animals before they were approved.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-05-25T00:00:00Z
title: Instagram post gets it wrong about Covid-19 vaccines and animal testing - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: All of the vaccines approved for use in the UK were tested on animals.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/online/instagram-post-gets-it-wrong-about-covid-19-vaccines-and-animal-testing/


text: The Covid-19 vaccines in use are poorly tested experimental vaccines.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-03-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/viral-video-contains-several-false-pandemic-claims/
title: Viral video contains several false pandemic claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The currently approved Covid-19 vaccines have all been through testing in multiple stages of clinical trials.


text: Most German cars are sold in Britain.
claimant: Louise Mensch
claim_date: 2016-12-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/german-cars-uk/
title: About 1 in 7 German cars are sold in the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s wrong. About one in seven cars made in Germany are sold in Britain. It is true that more German cars are exported to the UK than anywhere else.


text: The percentage of state school students applying to university has fallen.
claimant: John McDonnell
claim_date: 2017-05-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/are-university-applications-falling-uk/
title: Are university applications falling in the UK? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
UCAS don't publish figures on this. The figures we do have may be affected by local authority led schools becoming academies.


text: Nationally, only 69.4% of contacts are now reached and asked to self-isolate.
claimant: Jonathan Ashworth
claim_date: 2020-09-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/september-2020-test-trace/
title: Matt Hancock gets test and trace figures wrong again - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. The latest data from NHS Test and Trace shows that of all positive cases referred to the system, 81.4% were reached. Close contacts were identified for 80.2% of those cases. Of those identified close contacts, 69.4% were reached.


text: The Conservatives haven’t put a figure on their proposed cap on adult social care costs.
claimant: Andrew Gwynne
claim_date: 2017-05-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/will-there-be-cap-social-care-costs/
title: Will there be a cap on social care costs? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The government hasn’t said what the proposed cap on adult social care costs in England might look like. It will be included in a consultation after the election.


text: The number of EU nationals leaving the NHS jumped by 14% in 2017.
claimant: Peter Stefanovic
claim_date: 2018-11-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/eu-staff-nhs-what-has-happened-referendum/
title: EU staff in the NHS: what has happened since the referendum? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-11-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s correct for staff in England, comparing the number who left in 2016 with the number who left in 2017.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-03-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/home-office-eyebrows/
title: Everything you need to know about the Home Office’s ‘eyebrow’ spending - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In March 2020, the Home Office paid over £77,000 to an eyebrow threading company that was dissolved in 2018.

textual_rating:
The Home Office has said the money was spent on PPE.

One of the companies paid, called “Beautiful Brows”, is dissolved. However, a website of the same name, which sells PPE, is operated by another company which is still active.


text: An autistic boy named Brandon Smith has gone missing with his dog, Hank.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-04-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-boy-brandon-and-dog-hoax/
review_date: 2023-04-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Hoax appeal for missing boy and dog uses images of a child in the US first shared in 2019 - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The images in the post appear to be from a video shared in 2019 of a boy being reunited with his missing dog in the US.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-04-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/measles-vaccine-adverse-reactions/
title: Measles is not the “number one side effect” of the MMR vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Pancreatitis, Diabetes Mellitus (Type 2), anaphylaxis, arthritis, encephalitis, aseptic meningitis, pneumonia, deafness, retinitis and epididymitis are also listed as side effects.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. All of these (except aseptic meningitis) are listed under “adverse reactions” of the MMR II vaccine used in the US. That’s not the same as a side effect. Adverse reactions can refer to anything developed by chance after someone is vaccinated, but these aren’t necessarily caused by the vaccine. The two UK MMR vaccines list some of these as adverse reactions.


text: Scotland’s public finances haven’t always benefited from being part of the UK.
claimant: Merryn Somerset Webb
claim_date: 2016-11-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/scotland-public-finances/
title: Scotland's public finances - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. Scotland’s was a net contributor to the rest of the UK in 2005/6, and for four years from 2007/8 until 2011/12.


text: The UK minimum wage is £8.21, and is soon to be £10.50. The EU hasn’t set a minimum wage.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2019-10-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-eu-workers-rights-maternity/
title: UK workers’ rights: what are the rules on sick pay, maternity and annual leave? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s the minimum wage for people over 25 in the UK. The Conservatives have pledged to raise the minimum for every over 21 to £10.50 by 2024 but it’s not yet law. It’s correct that the EU doesn’t set a minimum wage.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-08-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/facebook-hoax-missing-bella-heather/
title: Hundreds share fake appeal for ‘missing’ girl Bella Heather - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A five-year-old girl named Bella Heather has gone missing from her home. An amber alert has been activated in response to her disappearance.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence this is a genuine appeal—the same post has been shared in Facebook groups around the UK and beyond with law enforcement in the US warning of a scam.


text: There are 80 courts in the UK enforcing Sharia law.
claimant: Nigel Farage
claim_date: 2015-01-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/are-there-80-sharia-courts-britain/
title: Are there 80 Sharia courts in Britain? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-01-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
People can agree to ask a Sharia council to make a legally binding decision, but this must be in line with English law. No-one knows how many councils exist.


text: Household savings are the lowest in 50 years.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-09-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/are-household-savings-their-lowest-50-years/
title: Are household savings at their lowest in 50 years? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-09-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct, looking at total household savings as a percentage of total household incomes, although these figures don’t give the fullest picture.


claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2018-11-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-england-394-million-more/
title: NHS England: £394 million more a week? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-11-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government will be putting more money into the NHS over the next five years, £394 million more a week.

textual_rating:
Spending increases announced for NHS England’s budget mean that £20.5 billion more will be spent on it in 2023/24 than in 2018/19. That’s £394 million more a week by 2023/24. This money doesn’t cover all health spending.


text: When Labour was in government for 13 years there were no strikes in the NHS.
claimant: Liz Kendall
claim_date: 2022-11-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Liz-Kendall-NHS-strikes-Labour/
title: Liz Kendall’s claim that there were no NHS strikes under Labour ignores local walkouts - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
While there were no national strikes between 1997 and 2010, we’ve found a number of examples of staff at NHS hospitals in England and Scotland taking part in local strikes.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-09-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/government-consultation-covid-vaccine-unlicensed/
title: Unlicensed vaccines are not untested - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
After 18 September, the government is going to say that because there were no objections, they will roll out unlicensed vaccines.

textual_rating:
Unlicensed (rather than untested) vaccines are already allowed to be rolled out by the government in circumstances such as a pandemic. The government is consulting on whether to clarify the rules around this.


claimant: Jason Alexander
claim_date: 2020-07-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/blitz-spirit-tweet/
title: It’s incorrect to say there was no resistance to safety measures around the Blitz - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In World War Two, when Londoners were asked to black out their homes at night, none complained or objected.

textual_rating:
This is incorrect. There are recorded instances of numerous objections to blackout and Blitz safety measures.


text: Solar installations are down 94%.
claimant: Rebecca Long-Bailey
claim_date: 2019-06-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/energy-bill/solar-installations/
title: Labour makes misleading claim on solar energy - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is misleading, because it compares two especially extreme months (March and April 2019), which almost always see a major drop in new solar capacity. 

Overall, the amount of new solar capacity being generated has stagnated significantly since 2017.


claimant: Nigel Farage
claim_date: 2021-10-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/environment/renewable-energy-generation-farage/
title: Nigel Farage understates renewable energy generation - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In September 2021 there was a three-week period when renewables produced between 2% and 3% of the country’s electricity.

textual_rating:
False. During the first three weeks of September, wind, solar and hydroelectricity accounted for their lowest share of total electricity generation during the month, but it was still between 10% and 19% on average, each day.


text: Covid-19 is being used to usher in Agenda 2030 which will enslave humanity.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-02-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/agenda-2030/
title: Agenda 2030 conspiracy just describes UN sustainability goals - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Agenda 2030 is a set of goals set by the UN in 2015 that include ending hunger. There is no evidence that it’s a wider policy to harm humanity.


claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2021-06-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/april-2021-trade-figures/
title: April’s trade figures fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
British companies sold £12.9 billion worth of goods to the EU, ten per cent up on pre-Brexit figures.

textual_rating:
£12.9 billion is correct, but the 10% rise claim is against summer 2020 and doesn’t reflect the wider trend. Exports to the EU are down compared to the period before Brexit.


text: Covid-19 tests are rigged.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Covid-can-be-fatal-underlying-cause-of-death/
title: Covid-19 can be fatal and tests for it aren’t rigged - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There are different types of tests for Covid-19 which should be used in different scenarios. PCR tests are considered to be highly accurate and reliable, particularly in symptomatic people.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-11-29T00:00:00Z
title: Fake Jeremy Corbyn tweet spreads after the London Bridge attack - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The tweet is fake. Mr Corbyn did not say this.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A screenshot shows a tweet from Jeremy Corbyn saying the London Bridge attacker was “murdered by British Police”.

url:
https://fullfact.org/online/fake-jeremy-corbyn-did-not-tweet-london-bridge-attacker-was-murdered-police/


text: The pound has fallen by 15%.
claimant: Terry Christian
claim_date: 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/pound-fallen-since-brexit/
title: The pound has fallen in value since the Brexit vote - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-02-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Not quite, the exact fall depends which currency you compare it to. It’s fallen by 12% against the Euro and 5% against the US Dollar since May 2016.


text: A no deal Brexit means UK fishing waters are back in our control.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/what-does-wto-rules-brexit-look/
title: What does a “WTO rules” Brexit look like? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is largely correct. The UK will become an independent coastal state though there will still be other international obligations on fisheries the UK needs to abide by.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-08-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/erectile-dysfunction-sexual-performance-drugs/
title: ‘Men's performance issues’ have more than one cause - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Erectile dysfunction is caused by build up of a sticky cholesterol plaque that clogs the flow of blood, and is nothing to do with stress, fatigue, psychological reasons or low testosterone levels.

textual_rating:
Narrowed arteries can cause erectile dysfunction, but it is incorrect to say this is the only reason. Changes to hormones, stress, mental health conditions like anxiety, as well as certain drugs are also common causes.


text: More than 60 frontline UK healthcare workers took their own life at the beginning of the pandemic.
claimant: i News
claim_date: 2021-09-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/suicide-healthcare-workers/
title: New figures on healthcare workers' suicides should be treated with caution - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This data was on deaths by suicide registered in England and Wales in the first half of 2020, we don’t know how many happened in that year.. The majority of all deaths by suicides registered in the first half of 2020 actually happened before the year began.


claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/when-criminal-trials-are-cracked/
title: When criminal trials are "cracked" - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A "cracked" trial is one that's dropped because a witness doesn't turn up or withdraws their evidence.

textual_rating:
A criminal trial can be "cracked", or closed unexpectedly, for lots of reasons. Problems with witnesses aren't the main cause.


text: Real wages are rising.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2018-05-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/pay-packets-growing/
title: Are pay packets growing? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Average weekly earnings before bonus payments were higher in March 2018 (and in January-March) than they were in the same periods in 2017. After bonus payments they were either lower or had not changed.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2020-03-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-graphics-unicef/
title: Coronavirus graphics you may have been sent on WhatsApp are not actually from Unicef - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: There’s no evidence gargling with saline will cure or prevent Covid-19.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Gargling with warm and salt water kills germs on the tonsils and prevents them from leaking into the lungs.


text: Andy Murray is the first person ever to win two Olympic tennis gold medals.
claimant: John Inverdale
claim_date: 2016-08-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/murray-second-gold-olympic-tennis/
title: Murray wins a second gold, but he’s not the first - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-08-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Murray is the first to win two Olympic gold medals in singles tennis, but 19 other men and women have won multiple gold medals in all forms of Olympic tennis. He’s also the first man to successfully defend an Olympic title; a number of women have done so in doubles.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/snp-conference-pension-vote/
title: SNP members voted to commission a plan for pension increases in an independent Scotland - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
At the SNP party conference, the SNP voted to increase the state pension in an independent Scotland to match the EU average.

textual_rating:
The conference voted in favour of a resolution supporting the commissioning of a plan looking at how pension levels could be increased. It also mentioned that the OECD average should be set as a target.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-phishing-scam/
title: This is a scam and is not from the government - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is correct. This is a scam and should not be interacted with.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A scam is asking people to input the personal details, including bank details, to receive “Covid-19 Relieve.”


claimant: George Osborne
claim_date: 2016-03-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/did-cutting-50p-rate-tax-raise-8-billion/
title: Did cutting the 50p rate of tax raise £8 billion? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-03-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There was an £8 billion increase in revenues from additional rate taxpayers after the top rate of tax was reduced from 50p to 45p.

textual_rating:
Revenues did increase by that much, but tax receipts were artificially low in 2012/13 and artificially high in 2013/14 due to people ‘deferring’ income from one tax year to another in order to benefit from the lower tax rate. So this can’t be described as the amount of money raised by the reduction in the rate.


claimant: Angus Robertson
claim_date: 2016-12-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/jobcentre-closures-glasgow/
title: Jobcentre closures - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-07T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Department for Work and Pensions wants to reduce the size of its estate by 20% but close 50% of Jobcentre Plus sites in Glasgow.


text: Flu is behind one in 10 deaths.
claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2023-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mirror-express-flu-pneumonia-ons/
title: Flu is not responsible for all ‘flu and pneumonia’ deaths - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Either flu or pneumonia was recorded as the cause of about one in 11 deaths in England and Wales in the first week of 2023. But flu was not necessarily involved in all of them.


text: Scotland’s bill for HS2 is £17 billion.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-11-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/hs2-scotland/
title: HS2 will not cost Scotland £17 billion - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. There is no evidence for this claim. In effect, all money spent by Scotland on HS2 is returned through the Barnett formula.


text: Housing Benefit spending has risen by £4 billion.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2016-11-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/spending-housing-benefit/
title: Spending on Housing Benefit - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. The rise was £4.3 billion between 2009/10 and 2014/15 according to the Department for Work and Pensions, or £2.3 billion adjusted for inflation.


text: A study from India showed people eating cucumber every day had a 71% less risk for lung cancer.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-04-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/cucumber-cancer/
title: There’s no evidence that eating cucumbers stops lung cancer - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
No studies show this. One study showed people who ate green vegetables were less likely to get lung cancer but the paper’s authors said this couldn’t be narrowed down to one vegetable’s effect.


text: The BBC receives £5 billion of public money.
claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2021-05-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/bbc-income/
title: How the BBC makes money - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the BBC’s total income, not just that from the licence fee (£3.5 billion) or public money. Much of the rest is generated from its commercial operations.


text: An autistic boy named Charlie William has gone missing with his dog.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-01-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/charlie-william-missing-stock-photograph/
title: Posts about missing boy use stock photograph of child model - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These appeals are false. The image accompanying the posts is a stock photo from a professional modelling shoot, not a genuine missing person.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2023-02-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/48-mystery-bus-brussels/
title: There is no free ‘mystery bus’ in Brussels - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Public transport is free in Brussels and there is a bus there called “not the 48” which takes you to a mystery location.

textual_rating:
None of this is true—the claim originates from a Twitter joke. Public transport is not free in Brussels and the bus pictured goes to a stop called Mystère.


claimant: Debbie Abrahams
claim_date: 2017-08-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/pension-changes-mean-thirty-seven-million/
title: Do pension changes mean 37 million people working longer? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-08-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Government proposals on raising the state pension age will see 36.9 million people having to work longer.

textual_rating:
Only around six million people are affected by the government’s most recent proposals. 32 million people already have a pensionable age higher than 66 years as things stand. The government’s proposals to bring the rise forward by seven years would bring this up to 38 million (based on 2016 population figures).


text: You can be jailed for failing to pay for your TV licence.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-05-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/tv-licence-prison-sentence/
title: You cannot be sent to prison just for failing to pay your TV licence - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
You cannot be jailed for failing to pay your TV licence, only fined. However, if you fail to pay the fine, this can ultimately lead to a custodial sentence.


text: Adidas are the biggest user of kangaroo leather.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/kangaroo-shoes/
title: Adidas, Nike and Puma use kangaroo leather in some products - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Adidas did not tell us how much kangaroo leather they use. Nike and Puma did not respond to our questions.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-12-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/LGI-photo-boy-facebook/
review_date: 2019-12-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A woman claimed on Facebook to have inside information suggesting that the photo of a boy sleeping on a hospital floor was staged.

title:
There is no evidence to suggest the photo of a boy sleeping on a hospital floor was staged - Full Fact

textual_rating:
There is no evidence the photo was staged. The hospital has confirmed that the incident happened. The woman has told the media she does not have information about the incident.


text: The government is putting 20,000 more police on the streets.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/boris-johnsons-first-interview-2020-fact-checked/
title: Boris Johnson’s first interview of 2020: fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The government has committed to do this. If this happens it will take the number of police in England and Wales to almost, but not quite the same level as it was at in 2010.


text: Receiving a Covid-19 vaccine makes you more likely to be admitted to hospital with the disease.
claimant: GB News
claim_date: 2022-01-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/gb-news-surgeon-covid-vaccines/
title: A surgeon made several incorrect claims about Covid-19 vaccine on GB News - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. Receiving a Covid-19 vaccine makes you much less likely to be admitted to hospital with the disease.


claimant: Tom Tugendhat
claim_date: 2022-02-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/prisoners-war-geneva-convention-photographs/
title: Is sharing photographs of prisoners of war banned by the Geneva Convention? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Publishing or sharing identifiable pictures of prisoners of war is a breach of the Geneva Convention.

textual_rating:
The relevant Geneva Convention does not explicitly ban the publication of photographs of prisoners of war. Nor does it apply to people who are not involved in the conflict. But the government and British Red Cross say that such pictures should not usually be published.


text: Theresa May has increased subsidies for grouse shooting from £45 million to £84 million a year.
claimant: The People Vs The Government, DWP and Atos
claim_date: 2019-02-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/environment/does-government-subsidise-grouse-shooting/
title: Does the government subsidise grouse shooting? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Moorland in England used for grouse shooting is eligible for agricultural subsidy, though the act of shooting itself isn’t subsidised.

Data on the total subsidy paid to grouse moors isn’t published, though the £45 and £84 million figures are likely to be overestimates.


text: The World Economic Forum has its own paramilitary force armed with military grade weapons.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/wef-police-davos/
title: The World Economic Forum does not have its own paramilitary force - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The WEF does not have its own paramilitary  force. Members of the local police force wear badges awarded each year to mark their participation in the event.


text: Thousands of doctors and nurses will lose their jobs for being unvaccinated.
claimant: Zuby
claim_date: 2021-08-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mandatory-vaccines-doctors-nurses-NHS/
title: Too early to say whether unvaccinated doctors or nurses will lose jobs - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A public consultation is due to launch on whether to make vaccination mandatory for healthcare workers, but we don’t know the outcome yet.


text: 97% of the PPE secured was ready, fit-for-purpose and there on the front line
claimant: Michael Gove
claim_date: 2022-02-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-ppe-procurement-use/
title: Michael Gove incorrect to say 97% of PPE procured 'fit-for-purpose' - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
While this PPE may have been usable, it was not all fit for use in the health and care sector, nor on the front line.


claimant: The Liberal Democrats
claim_date: 2019-10-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/lib-dems-somerset-poll/
title: You need to read the small print on this Lib Dem voting intention graph - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Conservatives are polling 38% in North East Somerset, the Liberal Democrats are on 32%, and Labour are on 8%.

textual_rating:
These are the results of a poll asking how people in the area would vote if only the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives were competitive.


text: Giving all children a daily free meal at school improves their results.
claimant: Tim Farron
claim_date: 2017-04-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/free-school-meals-and-educational-performance/
title: Free school meals and educational performance - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-04-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s the conclusion of a prominent study of a pilot programme carried out a few years ago, although some of its authors have cautioned against it being used to justify the roll-out of this policy nationwide. Older studies have pointed in the same direction.


claimant: Andrea Jenkyns
claim_date: 2023-05-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/andrea-jenkyns-echr-withdrawal/
title: Millions did not vote in favour of the UK withdrawing from the ECHR - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Millions of Britons voted to end the jurisdiction of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

textual_rating:
The ECHR is an entirely separate institution to the EU which the UK left as a result of Brexit. There has never been a referendum on ECHR membership.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/tv-licence-migrants-pensioners/
title: It’s not true that migrants get a free TV licence - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If you arrive from the beaches of Northern France today you get a TV licence for free, along with a house to watch it in.

textual_rating:
This refers to migrants arriving in the UK across the English Channel, and is not correct. Migrants are expected to pay for their own TV licence, and their accommodation can include hostels and bed and breakfasts.


text: 321 UK parliamentarians have Irish passports
claimant: Denis MacShane
claim_date: 2022-10-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/irish-passports-mps-lords/
title: No evidence for Irish passport numbers among MPs and peers - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We could find no evidence to support this, or any evidence that the data is collected. The original source appears to be an anonymous Twitter account that has given contradictory and apparently false information about where the figure comes from, and which has said in the past that it sometimes makes things up.


text: Rashes are a symptom of the new coronavirus.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-rash/
title: A rash is now listed as a possible symptom of the new coronavirus - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A rash was not initially listed as a symptom of the new coronavirus. The World Health Organisation have now said it is a less common symptom.


text: Pets must be walked alone within 50m of your house.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/viral-list-uk-lockdown-rules-not-right/
title: Viral list of UK lockdown rules is not right - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t true. You can go further away from your house and walk them with members of your household as part of your daily exercise.


text: Leaving the customs union and single market will cost every person in Scotland £1,600.
claimant: Nicola Sturgeon
claim_date: 2019-11-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/1600-per-person-scotland-brexit/
title: Claim that Brexit will cost every Scot £1,600 is not right - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. This comes from a dated estimate of how much less Scottish GDP will grow by 2030 in such a scenario, compared to remaining in the EU. It doesn’t represent a cash loss, but is how much smaller Scottish GDP would be per person compared to remaining in the EU.


text: Antidepressants may cause hair loss
claimant: The Express
claim_date: 2021-03-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/express-hair-loss-antidepressants/
title: It’s not clear if antidepressants cause hair loss - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Hair loss is listed as an uncommon side effect by NICE, but the evidence is uncertain, and the research in this article does not compare the risk of hair loss in people who take antidepressants with the risk in people who don’t.


text: A person survived being struck twice in quick succession by lightning.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/double-lightning-strike/
title: It is unlikely this person got struck by lightning twice in quick succession - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The theoretical survival chances, lack of news coverage and elements of the video which seem edited make it very unlikely that this happened.


claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2021-11-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/express-trade-deals/
title: Express vastly overstates impact of UK trade deals - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Trade deals agreed with 70 countries are collectively worth £766 billion, a major boost to Britain’s economy.

textual_rating:
This £766 billion figure refers to the total value of trade between the UK and countries it has agreed trade deals with—not the value that they add. Most of these deals were rolled over from when the UK was an EU member.


text: Footage shows Boris Johnson being booed and pelted with plastic balls in Manchester.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-09-28T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-09-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/online/video-crowd-booing-boris-johnson-not-2019-conservative-party-conference/

title:
This video of a crowd booing Boris Johnson is not from the 2019 Conservative party conference - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The footage is genuine, but it’s from the 2015 Conservative party conference—not this year’s conference.


text: Half of people in rural areas and many small businesses can’t get a decent broadband connection.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2016-10-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/rural-properties-are-much-less-likely-have-good-broadband-connections/
title: Rural properties are much less likely to have good broadband connections - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s fair according to Ofcom’s definition of a good broadband connection. It says just under half of rural properties (around 1.5 million) and many smaller businesses can’t access a good speed.


claimant: Matt Hancock
claim_date: 2021-03-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mandatory-vaccine-care-home-hepatitis-b/
title: Is there a precedent for mandatory vaccines for care home workers? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A requirement for doctors to have a Hepatitis B vaccine sets a clear precedent for requiring care home workers to have the Covid-19 vaccine.

textual_rating:
Guidance states that healthcare staff doing certain exposure prone procedures do need to have had the Hepatitis B vaccine, but this is not law.


claimant: Maria Caulfield
claim_date: 2022-12-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/maria-caulfield-nhs-nurse-pay/
title: Health minister’s claims on nurse pay fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
For each percent pay increased by, the government would have to find either £700 million or £800 million.

textual_rating:
DHSC has not confirmed how this has been calculated, though a spokesperson said it was £700 million as opposed to £800 million. This refers to increasing pay for all NHS staff with the exception of doctors, dentists and very senior managers, not just nurses.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-04-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/digital-ID-Oxford-15-minute-cities-false/
title: 15 minute cities do not introduce digital IDs - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
15 minute cities are divided into districts and you will be fined for exceeding your annual 100 day leave quota. It is already being trialled in Oxford.

textual_rating:
This appears to be conflating a ‘15-minute neighbourhood’ proposal in Oxford with a traffic scheme due to be trialled there in 2024. The traffic scheme would fine residents for driving on six major roads for more than 100 days a year. They would still be able to travel wherever they want using different roads or alternative modes of transport. This will rely on automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras to monitor and enforce the restrictions, not digital ID.


claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2023-02-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/express-cptpp-exports/
title: Express overstates impact of UK joining trans-Pacific trade bloc - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK’s potential accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership could mean more than 99% of UK exports to member countries become eligible for tariff-free trade.

textual_rating:
This figure refers to the total proportion of UK goods exports which would be eligible for tariff-free access to CPTPP countries under the agreement. But the government says 85.4% of goods can already be exported tariff-free, which means joining the bloc would result in around 15% of UK goods exports becoming newly eligible for tariff-free trade.


text: We hit 10,000 tests a day by the end of March.
claimant: Matt Hancock
claim_date: 2020-04-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-test-targets/
title: Government misses one of its Covid-19 test targets - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-04-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We don’t know. Fewer than 10,000 people were tested on each day in March, but that could have involved more than 10,000 tests. Data on the number of tests only started to be published in full on 6 April.


text: The Delta variant doesn’t exist and is a media-fabricated scam.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/test-for-delta-variant/
title: There are ways to identify the Delta variant - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Delta variant is real. It has affected many countries across the world, including the UK, and is a recognised variant of concern designated by bodies such as Public Health England and the World Health Organisation.


text: A Covid-19 vaccine will kill more people than the virus.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-vaccine-safety-death-rate/
title: Baseless claims about vaccine safety go viral on Facebook - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence for this claim. There have been no reports of deaths attributed to Covid-19 vaccines in any trials. Vaccines are rigorously safety tested before they are rolled out.


text: There are more hospital beds.
claimant: Dominic Raab
claim_date: 2018-01-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-more-beds-doctors-flu-vaccines/
title: NHS: More beds, more doctors, and more flu vaccines? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The number of beds available in NHS hospitals in England has been falling for the last thirty years, something experts put down to medical innovations. 1,300 fewer beds were used by patients fit to be discharged in November 2017 compared to the year before.


claimant: Vernon Coleman
claim_date: 2021-07-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Vernon-Coleman-Trafalgar-Square-conspiracy-claims-false/
title: Trafalgar Square “Freedom Rally” speech littered with false claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
12 to 13 million people will die through a combination of lockdown, flu and vaccine-driven pathogenic priming.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence this will happen. Even the largest figures do not put the potential health impacts or mortality rates attributable to lockdown or flu anywhere close to this figure. 

Pathogenic priming, also known as antibody-dependent enhancement, is a very rare condition and there is no evidence any of the Covid-19 vaccines cause it.


text: Pensioners only receive £8,000 a year and still have to pay for a TV license.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-11-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/living-wage-pensions-comparison/
title: Post comparing the living wage and pensions needs context - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The amount pensioners receive varies depending on a number of factors. Over 75s do now have to pay for a TV license, with some exceptions.


text: Covid-19 deaths in care homes are rising.
claimant: Keir Starmer
claim_date: 2020-05-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/care-homes-starmer-johnson/
title: Covid-19 deaths in care homes have started to fall - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This was true at the time, by one measure. By another measure it was probably not true. Now it seems clearer that deaths in care homes from suspected Covid-19 are falling.


claimant: Face
claim_date: 2022-07-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/martin-lewis-crypto-fake/
title: Martin Lewis has not endorsed a cryptocurrency platform in a BBC interview - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-15T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The page in question is not a BBC article, and he has not endorsed such a program.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A BBC article describes how Martin Lewis has endorsed a “new cryptocurrency auto-trading program called BitProfit”.


claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2018-04-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/would-free-bus-travel-save-young-people-1000-year/
title: Would free bus travel save young people £1,000 a year? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Young people could save up to £1,000 a year in bus fares under Labour’s plans for free bus travel for the under 25s.

textual_rating:
Assuming they took 520 bus journeys a year (a national travel survey says that figure is 101 for under 21s), and the bus fare is around £2, they could save £1,000.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-12-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/phoenician-omircron-illuminati/
title: Why conspiracists are linking the Omicron variant to the Illuminati - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Greek letter 'Delta' is pyramid shaped and the Phoenician letter for 'Omicron' is 'Ayin, the symbol for which just happens to be an eye. Putting these together creates the ‘Eye of Providence’, a symbol of the Illuminati.

textual_rating:
The Greek letter Delta is pyramid shaped. The Phoenician alphabet equivalent for Omicron is, like Omicron, a circle, but does derive from an older letter shaped like an eye. The Illuminati isn’t real.


text: The Covid-19 vaccines offer very little protection against the disease.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-05-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-vaccines-are-effective/
title: Covid-19 vaccines are very effective - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The claim is based on a misinterpretation of a Lancet comment article, which compared different ways of measuring effectiveness. It did not refute the headline figures that have already been reported.


claimant: David Warburton MP
claim_date: 2021-01-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-claims-david-warburton/
title: Several coronavirus claims made by MP in newspaper are inaccurate - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Excess deaths over the past year have not been statistically higher than the average for previous years. The ONS shows that, in terms of deaths per 100,000 of population, since 1993 ten previous years have had higher rates than 2020.

textual_rating:
Excess deaths in 2020 were higher than the average over previous years. Eight years since 1993 have had higher death rates.


text: Licensed gambling has grown 57% over the last decade.
claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2020-02-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/gambling-figures-reclassification-online/
title: Gambling spend down since 2008 on average - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Gambling yield has grown 57% over the last decade if you exclude the National Lottery. Including the National Lottery it has grown 40%. However, this growth is largely due to the changes in how online gambling is classified. This growth doesn’t necessarily mean people are gambling more.


text: The Treasury has backtracked on its stated original aim about Help to Buy ISAs
claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2016-08-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/help-to-buy-isas/
title: Help to Buy ISAs: do they work and were they mis-sold? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-08-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t correct. The scheme was always intended to support the part of a house purchase that’s funded by the buyer, commonly known as a ‘deposit’ or ‘mortgage deposit’. The Treasury never said that it was meant to help with the initial exchange deposit that’s put down when contracts are exchanged.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-11-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/nadhim-zahawi-leslie-phillips-tweet/
title: Nadhim Zahawi didn’t mistakenly pay tribute to a living Birds of a Feather actress - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Nadhim Zahawi confused actors Leslie Phillips and Lesley Joseph in a tribute tweet following the former’s recent death.

textual_rating:
This tweet appears to have been fabricated by a satirical Facebook page and is now being shared out of context. We can find no evidence Mr Zahawi ever tweeted this, and it appears to be a joke in reference to a genuine blunder by the minister.


claimant: Youtube user
claim_date: 2022-06-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/rwanda-policy-refugees/
review_date: 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK has signed an agreement that says for every asylum seeker it sends to Rwanda, it will bring back one vulnerable refugee to the UK.

title:
No evidence one refugee from Rwanda will come to the UK for every asylum seeker sent there - Full Fact

textual_rating:
There’s no evidence this is the case. The memorandum of understanding for the agreement does say the UK will resettle “a portion” of Rwanda’s most vulnerable refugees, but does not say how many.


claimant: Alan Ashwood
claim_date: 2015-03-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/former-labour-minister-didnt-call-sharia-law/
title: Former Labour minister didn’t call for Sharia law - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The quotes are made up.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Former Labour government minister Shahid Malik said it was his desire for Labour’s Muslim MPs to take over parliament and the country and replace British Christian culture with Sharia law.


text: There are 10,000 people with Covid-19 in hospital in Wales, and 200 in critical care.
claimant: Sky news
claim_date: 2021-12-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Covid-19-patients-in-wales/
title: There aren’t 10,000 patients in hospital with Covid in Wales - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Welsh government figures show that in the week up to 9 December there were an average of 526 general and acute beds in hospital occupied for Covid-19 related reasons, and 39 invasively ventilated beds.


claimant: The Conservative Woman
claim_date: 2021-08-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/conservative-woman-article-falsely-claims-vaccines-dont-work/
title: Conservative Woman article falsely claims vaccines don’t work - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Covid-19 is easily treatable at home. About 85% of hospitalisation and death is completely avoidable with early treatment.

textual_rating:
The studies on which this claim is made have limits. Some new, expensive Covid-19 treatments can reduce the risk of hospitalisation and death.


text: The UK is 15th in the international educational league tables, behind Vietnam.
claimant: Isabel Oakeshott
claim_date: 2017-02-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/uks-international-education-ranking/
title: The UK's international education ranking - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In 2015, the UK ranked 15th in the world for the performance of 15 year olds in science, behind Vietnam in 8th place. But we’re not necessarily as far behind Vietnam as this might suggest.


text: We have not heard of one police officer dying from Covid-19 across the world.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/police-officers-covid-19-deaths/
title: Police officers around the world have died from Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Many Covid-19 deaths among police officers have been reported worldwide, including at least one such death in the UK.


text: Agenda 2030 will introduce several global policies and create a UN/WHO dictatorship.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-02-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Agenda2030-cartoon-UN/
title: Agenda 2030 will not enforce eating insects, banning cars or a global dictatorship - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Agenda 2030 is a series of UN development goals. They are non legally binding and subject to each country’s implementation. This is no evidence to support these claims.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-11-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccine-informed-consent/
title: The WHO has not decided attending school implies consent for vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The WHO now says a child’s presence in school counts as “informed consent” for a vaccination and parental presence is not required.

textual_rating:
The evidence for this claim was taken from a document written by the WHO which described types of vaccine consent around the world, including written, verbal and implied consent. In the UK, sending your child to school doesn’t automatically imply you’ve consented for them to get a vaccine.


claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2019-10-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-cost-nationalisation/
title: There are some problems with this estimate of Labour’s nationalisation plans - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Labour’s plans to nationalise certain industries would cost at least £196billion and savers and pensioners could suffer further losses of £9 billion.

textual_rating:
The analysis this is based on says either one or the other of these things happens, not both.  Regardless its method is disputed and doesn’t factor in the potential economic benefits of nationalisation.


text: It’s significantly more expensive to send a child to prison than it is to send them to Eton.
claimant: Akala
claim_date: 2018-05-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/prison-or-eton-which-costs-more/
title: Prison or Eton: which costs more? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. In 2016/17 the average annual price per place for children in custody ranged from £76,000 to £210,000. The full annual fee to send a child to Eton in 2018/19 is just over £40,000.


claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2019-10-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/brexit-cost-new-deal/
title: Think tank did not say GDP per capita will fall by 7% under Boris Johnson’s deal - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Under Boris Johnson’s planned withdrawal agreement GDP per capita would fall by up to 7% in 10 years.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. This misreports an estimate by think tank UK in a Changing Europe. It estimated that, in one scenario, GDP per capita would be 7% lower after 10 years, compared to if the UK remained in the EU—not 7% lower than it is now.


text: Research says that nearly half of people who catch Covid develop depression afterwards.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/telegraph-depression-bangladesh-covid/
title: A Bangladesh study doesn’t show that depression follows Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not what the research says. It measured rates of depression among Covid survivors—but not whether they developed depression after catching the disease.


text: Tax avoidance costs £90 billion per year.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-10-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/asylum-benefit-fraud-tax-avoidance/
title: This viral post on benefits and tax avoidance is inaccurate - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is an unofficial estimate of the total tax gap. The figures are disputed and do not just cover tax avoidance.


claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2016-10-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/40-mental-health-trusts-have-seen-their-incomes-fall/
title: 40% of mental health trusts have seen their incomes fall - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Analysis by the King’s Fund suggests that 40% of mental health trusts saw budget reductions last year.


text: A British old age pensioner gets a yearly benefit of £6,000.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pensioners-refugees-benefits/
title: Viral image about pensioners and refugees is wrong on every single number - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A full British state pension is worth up to £6,500 or £8,500 per year. Pensioners may also qualify for top-ups, partner support, and additional benefits.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-08-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/maui-fire-amazon-books/
title: Maui fire books on Amazon don’t prove disaster was pre-planned - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The existence of books about the Maui fires published and for sale on Amazon so quickly after (and in one example during) the event show the disaster was planned.

textual_rating:
Books on Amazon published via Kindle Direct Publishing can be uploaded to Amazon for sale as eBooks or paperbacks very quickly. The existence of these books does not prove the fire was planned.


text: Covid-19 death statistics have been manipulated.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-06-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-cremation-pcr-asymptomatic-transmission/
title: Covid-19 victims cannot be cremated against their wishes - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It is true that deaths shortly after a positive test may include some people who died for other reasons. However, it also does not include people who did die of Covid later on. Information from death certificates reliably shows that, so far, there have been 152,397 fatalities where Covid-19 was mentioned as a cause of death on the death certificate.


text: A video shows the last moments of a Turkish family who perished during the recent earthquake.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-02-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/turkey-earthquake-last-moments-video/
title: Video does not show last moments of Turkish family during earthquake - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. The video appears to have been created using special effects and was uploaded to TikTok in 2020.


text: US patent number 20120251502 is for Ebola.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/us-patents-on-viruses/
title: Viral image about patents for viruses is misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This application number was for a strain of the Ebola virus but the application has now been abandoned. The virus was not created by those who filed the patent.


claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2017-06-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/midwives-leaving-profession/
title: Midwives leaving the profession - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-06-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The NHS Pay Review Body reports that 80% of of the midwives who left the profession would’ve stayed if they were valued more highly.

textual_rating:
Not quite. The NHS Pay Review Body says that according to the Royal College of Midwives 80% of the midwives who were intending to leave midwifery in the next two years said that increased pay would encourage them to stay in midwifery. But the same survey found the biggest concern  was staffing levels.


text: In Scottish education, bright children from poor areas are two years behind their better-off peers.
claimant: David Mundell
claim_date: 2017-02-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/attainment-gap-scotlands-schools/
title: The attainment gap in Scotland’s schools - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
15 year-olds from poorer families in Scotland were found to be roughly 2-3 years behind their better off peers in recent research comparing performance in science, maths and reading. That’s one of many ways to measure the attainment gap, so this answer isn’t definitive.


claimant: Andrew Marr, Andrew Marr Show
claim_date: 2015-01-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/are-homes-sold-under-right-buy-being-replaced/
title: Are homes sold under Right to Buy being replaced? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-01-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: These figure are correct for social homes sold and being built by local authorities in England.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There were 2,000 new social homes in 2014/15, compared to 12,000 social homes which were sold as part of the Right to Buy scheme.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2021-12-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/bin-bag-downing-street-quiz/
title: Downing Street quiz picture doesn’t show bin bag over CCTV - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Photos appearing to show Boris Johnson hosting a Christmas quiz from Number 10 Downing Street in 2020 show that the CCTV camera in the room has been covered with a big bag.

textual_rating:
The object people are saying is a bin bag covering a security camera is actually part of the curtain.


text: Our Tory government gives itself a £3,300 pay rise.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-10-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mp-pay-rise-uk-new-zealand/
title: MPs haven’t given themselves a £3,300 pay rise - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s been proposed that the salary of all UK MPs will rise by around £3,300, but the government does not set pay.


text: A woman with dementia is lost and the user needs help to identify her.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-03-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-woman-dementia/
title: Facebook posts about missing woman with dementia are hoaxes - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The posts are hoaxes. Police have previously issued a warning about an almost identical post and the appeals have been posted in community groups across the UK and in the US.


text: White, working-class boys are less likely than other groups to go on to university.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2016-07-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/are-white-working-class-boys-least-likely-go-university/
title: Are white, working class boys the least likely to go to university? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-07-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct for England, using research for university joiners in 2010 and 2011 and looking at the least well-off students.


text: 93.3% of school leavers in Scotland are going into education, training or employment.
claimant: Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh
claim_date: 2017-03-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/education-attainment-scotland-record-levels/
title: Is educational attainment in Scotland at record levels? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct according to initial findings for 2015/16, although these may change slightly when the surveys are followed up later this year.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-03-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Covid-QA-graphic/
title: Inaccurate Covid vaccine ‘Q&A’: fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There is a risk of autoimmune disease, strokes, seizures, convulsions and other side effects from the vaccines.

textual_rating:
The vaccines cause mild, transient side effects such as arm pain or fatigue for most people. There isn’t much evidence linking the vaccines directly to more severe side effects. Possible reported side effects are continually monitored to detect such links.


text: Napalm, not nuclear weapons, were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-03-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/nuclear-weapons-are-real/
title: Nuclear weapons do exist - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Evidence clearly shows the victims of those bombings suffered from injuries consistent with a nuclear attack, and not a napalm attack.


text: Between 17,000 and 20,000 Royal Navy sailors died fighting illegal slave traders.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-06-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/royal-navy-deaths-slavery/
title: Royal Navy sailors died while preventing the slave trade, but not tens of thousands - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
While it is true that sailors died as part of British efforts to combat illegal slave trading, it is unlikely to be this high a number.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2017-06-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/did-mps-vote-against-homes-having-be-made-fit-live-in/
title: Did MPs vote against forcing homes to be made fit to live in? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-06-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
312 Conservative MPs voted against forcing rented homes to be made fit for human habitation. No Labour, Liberal Democrat or SNP MPs voted against it.

textual_rating:
This is roughly correct—it was 309 Conservative MPs rather than 312. There are other regulations which compel landlords to deal with serious health and safety hazards, which weren’t voted on here.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-09-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/thalidomide-covid-vaccines-misleading/
title: Covid vaccines aren’t comparable to thalidomide scandal - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The length of time it took to discover thalidomide’s dangers proves more time should be spent researching medicines, particularly Covid-19 vaccines.

textual_rating:
Thalidomide underwent a very different research and regulation process to Covid-19 vaccines. There is no evidence so far that any of the Covid-19 vaccines in use in the UK are unsafe for pregnant people.


text: There are 130 Muslim Sharia courts and over 50 Muslim Sharia councils in Britain.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/muslims-in-the-uk/
title: ‘Facts’ in a graphic about UK Muslims are mostly wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Sharia councils are sometimes called sharia courts. The Home Office said in 2018 that there were an estimated 30 to 85 Sharia councils in England and Wales but there is no official count.


text: 400,000 people are being paid to be tested every week.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-10-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/stop-getting-tested-false-positive/
title: This post telling healthy people to stop getting tested is full of inaccuracies - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This seems to be based on target figures for the ONS infection survey, which measures how many people currently have or have already had the virus. Participants are given vouchers. This is a different program to tests conducted under the Test & Trace scheme.


claimant: Rachel Reeves
claim_date: 2021-04-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/self-isolation-payments/
title: Zero hours workers not excluded from self-isolation payments - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
People who are in insecure work or on zero hours contracts are excluded from the government’s financial support for self-isolation.

textual_rating:
These groups aren’t excluded from support but, like other workers, need to be on benefits or have a low income in order to be eligible.


claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2018-04-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/health-visitor-numbers-england-down-fifth-2015/
title: Health visitor numbers in England down by a fifth since 2015 - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct, for the NHS in England.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Health visitor numbers peaked in October 2015 at 10,309. Numbers have fallen by 2,065 or 20% since then.


claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2020-03-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/new-coronavirus-not-genetically-engineered/
review_date: 2020-03-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Coronavirus may have been genetically engineered for “efficient spreading in the human population,” a bombshell new study has claimed.

title:
A study has not claimed the new coronavirus was ‘genetically engineered for efficient spread in humans’ - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is wrong and the study does not claim the new coronavirus has been genetically engineered. It simply compares the genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2 with other coronaviruses, and suggests a reason why it might be spreading relatively efficiently.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/tv-licence-act-consent/
title: Paying TV licence fee isn’t based on ‘consent’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There is no law that requires a person to pay for a TV licence, only an Act which requires consent. If you don’t consent, you don’t have to pay.

textual_rating:
This is not accurate. UK law is made up of Acts of Parliament, and it is illegal to watch or record live TV without paying for a licence.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-01-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/online-cost-brexit-net-contributions/
review_date: 2020-01-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
One estimate of the “economic cost” of Brexit, £130 billion, now exceeds what we’ve paid in to the EU over 47 years.

title:
Has the “cost of Brexit” amounted to more than the UK’s total net contributions over 47 years? - Full Fact

textual_rating:
There’s no definitive figure for the economic impact of Brexit. The analysis this is based on estimates the UK’s GDP is £130 billion lower in 2019 than it would have been had it followed pre-EU referendum trends. Between 1973 and 2018 the UK’s net contribution to the EU was £216 billion in real terms.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-03-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/emergency-alert-personal-covid-data/
review_date: 2023-03-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Emergency Alerts will let the government know which phones are active, where they are, and will link the government to a user’s personal data through the data collected when they signed into a venue using the NHS Covid-19 app during the pandemic.

title:
Emergency Alerts won’t match personal data with information collected during the pandemic - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is not true. The government will not be able to tell which phones are active or where they are, and the alerts do not use or collect any personal data. The NHS Covid-19 app did not share personal details, and only held venue check-in data for 21 days.


text: 47% of the population don’t earn enough money to bring in a wife or husband from outside the EU.
claimant: Caroline Lucas
claim_date: 2018-04-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/you-usually-need-earn-18600-year-bring-non-eu-partner-uk/
title: You usually need to earn £18,600 a year to bring a non-EU partner to the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is an old estimate for the proportion of British national employees who earned less than the £18,600 threshold. More recent estimates have put this at 41%, and it could be lower today. Non-British nationals who are settled in the UK can also bring in a partner if they meet the threshold.


text: Vaccinated people over 30 have higher rates of Covid-19 infection than unvaccinated ones.
claimant: Lionel Shriver
claim_date: 2021-11-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/lionel-shriver-spectator-vaccines/
title: Lionel Shriver is wrong to say that Covid-19 vaccines can’t stop the virus spreading - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This claim is based on very unreliable estimates of the case rate among unvaccinated people. The opposite may well be true.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/tap-water-electrolysis/
title: Electrolysis video doesn’t prove tap water is dangerous - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Electrolysis of tap water and distilled water shows that tap water contains something that is dumbing us down.

textual_rating:
The cup of tap water going green doesn’t prove there’s anything untoward in it. The colour change is likely to be the metal electrodes of the device breaking down, which is only possible in non-distilled water.


text: “Our boys” didn’t change the handball and VAR rules in association football.
claimant: Ian Holloway
claim_date: 2019-08-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/Holloway-handball-var-eu/
title: Did “our boys” change the handball rule? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Changes to the VAR rules were made unanimously by IFAB. British football associations had the ability to veto this change, but all four voted in favour. Details of the vote to change the handball rule have not yet been released, but at least two of the four British FAs would have had to vote in favour of it.


text: Ketchup tested positive for Covid-19 using a lateral flow test.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-04-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ketchup-covid-positive-lateral-flow-test/
title: Ketchup did not ‘test positive’ for Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is inaccurate. The ketchup appears to have broken the test, which doesn’t mean tests are inaccurate when used correctly in people. Evidence shows you are more likely to get a false negative result than a false positive using this type of test.


title: Henry Kissinger has never given a speech about exterminating people with vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Dr Kissinger never said this. The meeting never happened. The Council on Eugenics does not exist.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Henry Kissinger told the WHO “Council on Eugenics” that vaccines could be used to control the human population

url:
https://fullfact.org/online/henry-kissinger-has-never-given-speech-about-exterminating-people-vaccines/


text: The morning after pill is an abortifacient, so induces an abortion.
claimant: Jacob Rees-Mogg
claim_date: 2022-02-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/what-is-an-abortifacient/
title: Jacob Rees-Mogg wrong to suggest morning after pill is ‘abortifacient’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The morning after pill doesn’t induce an abortion, but rather prevents ovulation so no egg is fertilised, preventing pregnancy, in the manner of contraception.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/swedish-school-attack/
title: This boy in Sweden was killed but the motive is unclear - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An image shows Arminas Pileckas, a 15 year-old student in Sweden stabbed and killed after protecting a girl in his class who was being sexually harassed by a 14 year-old Syrian refugee. Neither the Syrian boy nor his parents face any charges.

textual_rating:
The image does show Arminas Pileckas, a 15 year-old Lithuanian student in Sweden who was fatally stabbed while at school by a 14 year-old boy from Syria in January 2016. The motive is unclear. The boy wasn’t prosecuted as he was below the age of criminal responsibility in Sweden.


text: We’re seeing fewer families in absolute poverty in the UK.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2016-11-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/poverty-or-down/
title: Poverty: up or down? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It depends how you look at it and what time period you pick. If you take the claim to be referring to the period since 2010, that could still be correct or incorrect. The number of individuals in households that are in absolute poverty appears to have fallen, but the number of children has remained broadly the same.


claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2021-04-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccine-blood-clots/
title: The risk of vaccination does not rise when Covid-19 becomes scarcer - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Professor Jonathan Van-Tam said that when Covid-19 is low in the community the risk of developing a blood clot for the under-30s increases.

textual_rating:
This is not what Professor Van-Tam said, nor is it quite right. What changes is the balance of risk. When Covid is extremely scarce, the risk of young people suffering a rare blood clot after having the AstraZeneca vaccine might outweigh the benefit of the vaccine.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2022-01-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-sky-tweet/
title: Fake Sky News tweet claims PM drank with foxhound pack - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This tweet wasn’t tweeted by an official Sky News account. No such story has been reported.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Sky News tweeted: “BREAKING NEWS: New photos show Boris Johnson drinking with the Berkeley Hunt at get together during first lockdown. More to follow….#PartyGate”.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-10-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/viral-image-boris-johnsons-brexit-deal/
title: We fact checked this viral image on Boris Johnson's Brexit deal - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Under the new withdrawal agreement, UK fishing waters are not returned to the UK and EU members still fish UK waters.

textual_rating:
The latest deal doesn’t change anything to do fisheries, compared to Theresa May’s deal. The UK is due to leave the Common Fisheries Policy so will be an independent coast state.


text: In 2018, the UK contributed £11 billion to the EU and received EU funding of £6 billion.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/eu-budget-contributions-misleading/
title: This post about EU budget contributions is misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Data is not yet available for 2018. In 2017, the UK paid roughly £12 billion into the EU budget and received around £5.5 billion back in spending from the EU.


claimant: Handelsblatt
claim_date: 2021-01-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/german-astrazeneca-8-percent-handelsblatt/
title: Report of 8% vaccine efficacy for elderly is unreliable - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The German federal government only expects the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to have an effectiveness of eight percent among the over 65s.

textual_rating:
The German government said it couldn’t confirm the report. Public data shows older adults had a similar immune response to the vaccine as younger adults, though there is limited data for over 65s.


text: A video shows US President Joe Biden falling down the steps of Air Force One.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-02-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/joe-biden-fall-air-force-one/
title: Video doesn’t show Joe Biden falling down stairs of Air Force One in Poland - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The video does not show this. A White House spokesperson said the video was of a member of staff, not the President himself.


text: A photo shows thousands of Europeans fleeing to North Africa during the Second World War.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/vlora-refugee-ship-world-war-two/
title: Picture of refugees on ship isn’t from WWII - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The picture was actually taken in 1991, and shows Albanian people boarding a ship bound for Italy after the collapse of the Communist regime.


text: 57% oppose Theresa May's Brexit approach.
claimant: Leave.EU
claim_date: 2018-07-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/these-poll-figures-are-leave-voters-not-most-nation/
title: These poll figures are for leave voters - not "most of the nation" - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That's of adults in Great Britain voting 'Leave' in the 2016 referendum, according to one survey. Among all adults in Great Britain, it's 53%.


claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2015-07-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/too-old-adopt-their-granddaughter-myth/
title: The "too old to adopt their granddaughter" myth - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-07-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A judge refused to allow a child to live with her grandparents, instead of being adopted, because they were too old.

textual_rating:
This isn't correct. Age was mentioned in passing in the judge's written decision, but not as the main reason for it.


text: European patent 3172319B1 is owned by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-vaccine-patents-bill-melinda-gates/
title: These patents are not for the new coronavirus or its vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It is not. The patent is owned by the UK-based Pirbright Institute, which receives some of its funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.


text: Covid-19 vaccines increase the risk of HIV.
claimant: Instagram account
claim_date: 2023-07-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/HIV-AIDS-smallpox-covid-fauci-patient-zero/
title: False claims of links between vaccines and HIV spread online - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Concerns were raised in 2020 about the use of a certain vaccine technology in Covid vaccines. Major Covid vaccines used the technology worldwide, and there is no data to suggest they have caused HIV.


text: Amazon has launched a new cryptocurrency trading platform called “BTC Ai 360” or “Ai Biticodes”.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-10-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/cryptocurrency-amazon-fake-articles/
review_date: 2022-10-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Amazon has not launched a cryptocurrency trading platform under either of these names.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Articles claiming Amazon is encouraging users to sign up to cryptocurrency platform are fake - Full Fact


text: 1,400 more people are accessing mental health services every day, compared to 2010/11.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-01-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/has-number-people-using-mental-services-increased/
title: Has the number of people using mental health services increased? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
NHS figures suggest the number using mental health services is increasing but changes to the way these figures are gathered means we can’t say for sure or put an exact figure on it.


text: 98% of junior doctors voted in favour of strikes.
claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2015-11-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/did-98-junior-doctors-vote-strike/
title: Did 98% of junior doctors vote to strike? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-11-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
98% of junior doctors who are members of the British Medical Association (BMA) and who voted in the ballot said they would be prepared to strike. Not all junior doctors are members of the BMA, and not all members voted. Taken as a proportion of all junior doctors (including some not affected by the changes), roughly 46-52% voted to strike.


text: A photograph shows a lost dog that has been found near Bournemouth.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-03-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-dog-fake-appeal-vetinary-hospital/
title: Facebook post appealing to find missing dog’s owner is a hoax - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The post is not genuine. The photo comes from a genuine post about a lost dog being found in Australia in January.


text: There’s a do not resuscitate across the UK on the elderly, on the disabled.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-04-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/do-not-resuscitate-video/
title: Viral video includes lots of false claims and half truths - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Guidance from regulatory bodies explicitly says that do not resuscitate orders should not use a ‘blanket approach’. 

The preliminary report from a Care Quality Commission investigation into the use of DNACPRs during the Covid-19 pandemic found examples of unacceptable and inappropriate DNACPRs being made at the start of the pandemic, but stated that there was no evidence to suggest it continued as a widespread problem.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-05-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/keanu-reeves-nature-quote/
title: No evidence Keanu Reeves nature quote is real - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-31T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: There is no evidence the actor ever actually said this.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Keanu Reeves said: “To me, Nature is a place where you retreat whenever you feel exhausted or sad. I’m more happy when I’m surrounded by the sound of birds than sound of people.”


text: There are 10,000 more training places available for nurses.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-02-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nursing-training-places/
title: Nursing training places - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. This figure refers to the government’s ambition for additional places by 2020 on nursing, midwifery and allied health courses.


text: Under the last government, social welfare cases receiving legal aid fell from 470,000 to 53,000.
claimant: Lord Falconer, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice
claim_date: 2015-09-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/far-fewer-social-welfare-cases-get-legal-aid/
title: Far fewer social welfare cases get legal aid - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-10-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These figures are correct. Cases about community care, debt, employment, housing and welfare benefits that got publicly funded legal advice and assistance fell 89% from 2009/10 to 2013/14.


text: 90% of infected people have no symptoms
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-10-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/stop-getting-tested-false-positive/
title: This post telling healthy people to stop getting tested is full of inaccuracies - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The asymptomatic rate is uncertain, although one recent study suggested that 76% of infected people had no symptoms on the day of their test.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-02-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/15-minute-cities-100-councils/
title: Net Zero pledge doesn’t commit councils to implementing ‘15 minute cities’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Under the 15 minute cities concept should you need to go out of your zone in your car you have to apply for a pass. Your household gets 100 a year and once you've used them all you get fined for leaving your zone.

textual_rating:
A traffic filter scheme in Oxford will see residents able to apply for permits allowing them to drive on affected roads for up to 100 days a year without receiving a fine. But the scheme won’t block residents from leaving their local neighbourhoods by car on other roads, or place any restrictions on where they can go via other forms of transport, and is not part of separate 15 minute cities proposals being considered by the city.


text: Germany owes £3.7 trillion of WWII debt.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/war-debt-figure/
title: Germany doesn’t “owe” the UK £3.7 trillion of war debt - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Germany’s war debt was written off decades ago. We also haven’t seen evidence that Germany’s debt to the UK, or the cost of war damage incurred by the UK, was worth £3.7 trillion.


text: Spending on NHS Scotland has gone up by £4 billion to £13 billion.
claimant: Fiona Hyslop
claim_date: 2018-01-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-scotland-spending/
title: NHS Scotland: how much is being spent? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-01-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the planned increase in day-to-day spending on health in Scotland between 2006/07 and 2018/19. It doesn’t account for inflation though, once that is added the increase is £2 billion.


text: Nigel Farage has earned £541.10 per day from TV and radio since 2016.
claimant: Best for Britain
claim_date: 2019-07-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/viral-brexit-costs-post-wrong/
title: This viral post about the costs of Brexit gets a lot of things wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. This is a based on the outside income Mr Farage declared as an MEP between 2014 and 2018. Half of that period was before Brexit. His estimated outside earnings over that period equate to an average of £359.90-£479.50 per day, and we don’t know if all that was from broadcast deals.


claimant: Facebook group
claim_date: 2022-05-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-freud-quote/
title: No evidence Sigmund Freud said viral quote about depression - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Sigmund Freud once said: “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, surrounded by assholes.”

textual_rating:
There is no evidence Mr Freud ever said this. The earliest appearance of the quote appears to be a tweet posted in 2010, with the Twitter user claiming to have invented it herself.


text: Two patients every day die of thirst or starvation in NHS hospitals.
claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2017-01-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/how-many-patients-die-thirst-or-starvation/
title: How many patients die from thirst or starvation? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Roughly one patient every three or four days died as a direct result of malnutrition or dehydration in NHS and non-NHS hospitals in England and Wales across 2015. This can’t be directly linked to the quality of care, though.


claimant: Angela Rayner
claim_date: 2019-11-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/waspi-poverty/
title: Angela Rayner uses exaggerated figure for number of WASPI women in poverty - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is an exaggeration. We don’t know the exact number but it is likely substantially lower.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Millions of women have been plunged into poverty because of changes to the pension age made in 2011.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/wuhan-virus-patent-gates/
title: A patent for the coronavirus spreading in Wuhan was not applied for in 2015 - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A patent for coronavirus was granted in 2018 to the Pirbright Institute UK, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates.

textual_rating:
A patent for a different virus in the same family as the Wuhan virus was applied for by the Pirbright Institute, which receives part of its funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-07-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/drinking-water-quality-tests/
title: Residents of Greater Manchester are not ‘being poisoned’ by their water company - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The post shows concentrations of all chemicals tested are within legal limits.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A Facebook post claims a Freedom of Information request has revealed that customers of a major water company in Greater Manchester are “being poisoned”.


text: The use of imperial measurements in the UK was outlawed “at the behest of foreign bureaucrats”.
claimant: twitter user
claim_date: 2022-05-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/metric-eu-brexit-pints-metres-pounds/
title: The EU did not completely outlaw use of imperial measures in the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Using imperial measurements alone is illegal in many circumstances. But the EU did not outlaw their use altogether, and the UK did take some steps towards adopting the metric system prior to joining the EU.


text: 86% of austerity has fallen on women.
claimant: Dawn Butler
claim_date: 2018-10-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/austerity-women/
title: Has 86% of austerity fallen on women? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The House of Commons Library estimates that, looking at all changes to taxes and benefits from 2010-2017, 86% of the reduction in government spending is in spending on women. This is based on which person in a household receives a benefit or is taxed, so doesn’t factor in the “indirect” impact on partners and household budgets.


text: Thirteen nations have abolished farming to save the planet.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/13-nations-abolish-farming/
title: The US, Germany and 11 other nations haven’t abolished farming to tackle climate change - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence to support this claim. The article making the claim links to a press release which does not mention abolishing farming.


text: Google has removed Churchill.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-06-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/google-removed-churchill-photograph/
title: Churchill’s photograph has not been removed from Google - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Churchill’s photograph did temporarily disappear from one part of Google’s search results last year. It was restored on 14 June 2020.


text: The IMF says that the UK will be the fastest-growing advanced economy in the world in 2016.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2016-11-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/economic-outlook-imf-or-ifs/
title: The economic outlook: IMF or IFS? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Not correct. The IMF forecasts GDP growth of 1.8% for the UK in 2016, the 18th highest among the 39 countries it calls ‘advanced economies’.


text: A quarter of primary school leavers are unable to read or write properly.
claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2019-06-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/literacy-year-6/
title: Are a quarter of 11 year-olds in England unable to read? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
25% of 10 and 11 year-old students in England did not reach the expected level of reading in their SATs and 22% when tested on grammar, punctuation and spelling. There are other measures of literacy which show similar or slightly lower proportions failing to meet the standards.


text: China was the first place to have over 100,000 5G towers.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-5G/
title: These claims about the new coronavirus and 5G are unfounded - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
While it is true that China has over 100,000 towers, it is unclear if it was the first place to pass this number.


text: London is losing 3,000 police officers from the streets.
claimant: Stella Creasy
claim_date: 2017-11-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/london-losing-3000-police-officers/
title: Is London losing 3,000 police officers? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-11-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the Metropolitan Police’s working assumption for how many officers will be lost between now and 2020.


claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2016-01-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/lord-neuberger-veils-court/
title: Lord Neuberger on veils in court - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-02-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The country’s most senior judge has said that women shouldn’t be able to wear veils in criminal trials.

textual_rating:
Correct. The head of the Supreme Court said that witnesses whose evidence is being challenged should have to remove a veil covering their face.


claimant: John O'Looney
claim_date: 2021-12-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/funeral-director-no-evidence/
title: Funeral director’s viral claims about vaccinated people not based in fact - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There are many more deaths from heart attacks, strokes and aneurysms than usually seen, as a direct result of thrombosis embolisms. Clots used to be rare but now they’re common.

textual_rating:
The latest data for England and Wales shows that diseases to do with blood flow in the brain, such as strokes and aneurysms caused by clots are actually down compared to the five year average.


text: Funding for schools is down by 8% in real terms.
claimant: Paul Whiteman
claim_date: 2018-10-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/school-spending-figures-misleading/
title: Government school spending figures: correct but misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. The IFS says spending per pupil in England fell by 8% in real terms from 2009/10 to 2017/18, and will be held constant from 2017/18 to 2019/20.


text: Sainsbury’s has stopped selling fireworks due to animal welfare concerns.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-10-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/sainsburys-fireworks-animals/
title: Concerns about animal welfare are just one reason Sainsbury’s stopped selling fireworks - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A Sainsbury's spokesperson said the supermarket has not sold fireworks since 2019. They said the decision to stop selling them was based on a number of different factors, including animal welfare.


text: Labour's Shadow Cabinet is the most diverse in the British parliament's history.
claimant: Kate Osamor
claim_date: 2018-09-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/jeremy-corbyns-shadow-cabinets-have-been-most-diverse-ever/
title: Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinets have been the most diverse ever - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Broadly correct. Currently 45% of the shadow cabinet are women and 13% are non-white. The highest-ever representation of women and ethnic minorities ever have been in previous shadow cabinets under Jeremy Corbyn.


claimant: Question Time
claim_date: 2018-07-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/satisfaction-nhs-peaked-2010/
title: Satisfaction with the NHS peaked in 2010 - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Under the last Labour government, we had the longest sustained period of investment in the NHS since it was founded.

textual_rating:
Labour governments from 1997-2010 increased health spending by more each year on average than any party apart from the Conservatives between 1970 and 1974. The longest period of sustained increases in health spending since 1950 was from 1953-1969 under a number of different governments and political parties.


claimant: Barry Gardiner
claim_date: 2018-04-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/parliament-vote-military-intervention/
title: Does parliament get a vote on military intervention? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
It has become convention that Parliament authorises military action when the UK is not in imminent danger of an attack.

textual_rating:
Mostly—this has been argued by governments since 2011. But there’s still some question over which circumstances the convention applies under, and it’s not legally binding.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-12-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/emma-tustin-salt-peterborough-arthur-labinjo-hughes-hospital-false/
title: Reports Emma Tustin was hospitalised after inmates force fed her salt are not true - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Emma Tustin, convicted of the murder of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, has been hospitalised after inmates forced her to eat 79 packets of salt.

textual_rating:
Sodexo, which runs the prison where Tustin is serving her sentence, says there is no truth to the claim.


text: Over 70% of Covid-19 deaths are now in vaccinated people in the UK.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/joe-rogan-over-70-percent/
title: Joe Rogan podcast uses Covid-19 death data out of context - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct for deaths in England, and comes from UKHSA data in its week 38 vaccine surveillance report. However, the UKHSA explains that this is expected because a larger proportion of the population are vaccinated than unvaccinated, particularly among vulnerable groups


text: Theresa May leads Jeremy Corbyn in the opinion polls.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2018-05-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/how-are-theresa-may-and-jeremy-corbyn-doing-polls/
title: How are Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn doing in the polls? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s correct that Theresa May is more favoured as Prime Minister than Jeremy Corbyn in polls generally, though the Express poll only compares the two leaders on their economic credibility.


text: Surprisingly few people have died of flu or pneumonia in 2020 so far.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-10-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/flu-pneumonia-death-years/
title: The number of deaths from flu and pneumonia is about what you would expect this year - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
2020’s flu and pneumonia death figures are low, but this post makes the fall seem much more extreme than it is, by comparing this year with the worst on record.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-09-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/wilko-online-offers-fake/
title: Bargain online offers at Wilko are fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Wilko is selling items for as little as £1.90 to clear the remaining 8,000 products left in its warehouse.

textual_rating:
These offers are not genuine—Wilko is no longer selling products online. Wilko’s administrators told Full Fact they were aware of a number of sites that had been set up to “scam” users.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-09-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/queen-mourning-nintendo-console-satire/
title: Image of Nintendo console displaying mourning message was created as a joke - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The image of a ‘locked’ console was created by a Twitter user as a joke.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Nintendo consoles did not function during the period of official mourning as a mark of respect to Queen Elizabeth.


text: Bombardier is worth 10% of Northern Ireland’s GDP.
claimant: Owen Smith
claim_date: 2017-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/how-valuable-bombardier-economy-northern-ireland/
title: How valuable is Bombardier to the economy of Northern Ireland? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-10-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We’ve seen no evidence for this. Bombardier claims it makes up 10% of Northern Ireland’s manufacturing exports, which is about 2% of its GDP.


claimant: Ash Sarkar
claim_date: 2018-02-22T00:00:00Z
title: 6% of young first-time students drop out of university after their first year - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-02-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There has been a 0.5% year on year increase in the dropout rate of students since the introduction of £9,000 fees in 2012.

url:
https://fullfact.org/education/6-young-first-time-students-drop-out-university-after-their-first-year/

textual_rating:
Incorrect, but not far off. This is the percentage point change over two years rather than yearly. It grew from a 5.7% dropout rate in 2012 to 6.2% in 2014. We don’t know how much this is linked with the increase in fees.


text: Leicester is going back into lockdown soon after 5G was rolled out there.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/leicester-5g-no-connection-covid/
title: Leicester going back into lockdown has nothing to do with 5G - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
5G coverage was available in Leicester by November 2019, months before Covid-19 was detected in the UK. 5G is not linked to cases of Covid-19. Leicester had some lockdown restrictions re-imposed because the number of cases there was increasing.


text: More than 40% of newly recruited nurses are leaving full-time employment within their first year.
claimant: Emily Thornberry
claim_date: 2017-11-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nurses-leaving-full-time-work/
title: Are 40% of nurses leaving full-time work in their first year? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-12-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. 15% of NHS England nurses who began as full-time staff between May 2016 and May 2017 had left full-time work by May 2017.


text: The masks they give to hospital staff and in schools say they do not protect against Covid-19.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/face-mask-protect-others/
review_date: 2020-07-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Surgical masks may offer some protection to the wearer from Covid-19 and may stop them from infecting others - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The masks pictured may offer some limited protection to the wearer, and can stop them spreading it if they are infected. Hospital staff are required to wear these masks, but they may also wear respirators that do protect the wearer. Face coverings and masks are not recommended for use at schools in England except in some circumstances.


text: Wearing a mask can cause hypercapnia, by making you breathe in too much carbon dioxide.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/masks-not-harmful/
title: Ordinary face masks are not harmful - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. Wearing a mask is safe for most people. There may be rare instances of harm involving  tight-fitting N95 or FFP2 masks.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-08-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/pfizer-teens-myocarditis/
title: The Pfizer vaccine, teenagers and myocarditis - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A CDC study on 12 to 17 year-olds who got the Pfizer vaccine found 397 reports of heart inflammation.

textual_rating:
It’s true 397 cases of myocarditis were reported after around 8.9 million adolescents who got the vaccine.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-12-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-mum-quote-donald-trump-fake/
title: Boris Johnson’s mum did not call him ‘an idiot with no common sense’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Boris Johnson’s mother, Charlotte Johnson Wahl described him as an idiot with no
common sense” and said she hoped “he never goes into politics. He'd be a disaster.”

textual_rating:
Mrs Johnson Wahl never said this. It is almost identical to another quote, attributed to Donald Trump’s mother, which was also debunked.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-05-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Imran-Khan-arrest-protests/
title: Video supposedly showing protests against Imran Khan’s arrest was filmed in 2022 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video shows people protesting Imran Khan’s 9 May arrest in front of Nawaz Sharif’s house in London.

textual_rating:
This video was shared in April 2022, and shows people demonstrating outside a building owned by Mr Sharif in London following the ousting of Mr Khan as Prime Minister of Pakistan.


claimant: Nadhim Zahawi
claim_date: 2023-01-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/nadhim-zahawi-labour-rmt-funding/
title: How much money does Labour receive from the RMT and other trade unions? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Labour voted for their ‘union paymasters’ by voting against the government’s legislation on strike action.

textual_rating:
Most of Labour’s income comes from trade unions, although the amount that comes from the RMT (whose boss Mick Lynch is pictured in the Conservatives’ graphic) is relatively small, and the RMT is not affiliated with Labour.


text: A woman, pictured as a child, is searching for her birth parents on Facebook.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-05-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/search-for-birth-parents-hoax-seattle-picture/
title: Fake birth parents appeal on Facebook uses US photographer’s picture - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The picture was taken by a photographer based in Seattle and is being used in multiple posts giving different details about who is searching and her mother’s name.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2019-11-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/twitter-polls-are-not-accurate-opinion-polls/
title: Twitter polls are not accurate opinion polls - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
After the election debate on ITV between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, ITV and the BBC quoted the only poll which didn’t find Jeremy Corbyn to be the winner.

textual_rating:
All the polls which found Corbyn to be the winner were conducted on Twitter, meaning they are not designed to represent the general population and are largely meaningless. The BBC and ITV reported on a YouGov poll which was designed to do this and so is meaningful.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-02-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/duvet-heart-attack/
title: Warning that vigorous duvet-shaking can raise risk of heart attack is fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The screenshot showing this has been doctored and no such article exists.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An ITV News article has the headline “Shaking the duvet too vigorously while making your bed can increase your chances of a heart attack, scientists warn”.


text: The current Covid vaccines are obsolete as they do not cover the new variants.
claimant: The Conservative Woman
claim_date: 2021-08-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/conservative-woman-article-falsely-claims-vaccines-dont-work/
title: Conservative Woman article falsely claims vaccines don’t work - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. All the vaccines mentioned have shown efficacy against the main Covid-19 variants, albeit to varying degrees.


text: Somerset has no NHS dental care.
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2022-05-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-dentists-somerset/
title: NHS dentists are still operating in Somerset - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Somerset residents are struggling to find NHS dental surgeries accepting new patients, however NHS dental surgeries are still open in the county.


text: Images show a young Ukrainian girl telling a Russian soldier to go home.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-02-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ukraine-girl-confronts-soldier-russia/
title: Images of girl confronting soldier are not from Ukraine - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. The images come from a video that was published in 2012. It says it shows Palestinian children.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-08-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/transgender-baby/
title: Image does not show parents of ‘trans baby’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is not true. The couple are both trans but never claimed their daughter was.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A picture shows a couple with a young child who said that “discovering our baby was trans was an emotional roller coaster”.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-05-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Twickenham-Covid-19-vaccine-claims-false/
title: Hecklers at Twickenham Stadium vaccine drive spout false claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Covid-19 vaccine contains a nanobot transmitter which can connect you to the “internet of things”.

textual_rating:
The Covid-19 vaccines contain nanoparticles, which is just another word for very small natural or manmade particles. They are not “nanobots”, and cannot connect to WiFi or send data.


text: US food standards allow for rat droppings in ginger.
claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2019-10-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/food-poisoning-US-UK/
title: You can’t really compare rates of food poisoning between the US and UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
US food standards set limits above zero for rat droppings in ginger, beyond which enforcement action is mandatory.


text: A photo of two emaciated men strongly implies they were British soldiers.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-08-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/post-suggests-american-ww2-prisoners-were-british-soldiers/
title: Post suggests American WW2 prisoners were British soldiers - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is a famous photograph of two American civilians after the liberation of a Japanese POW camp in 1945.


text: Deliveroo will have to recognise a union if over half the drivers in an area sign up to it.
claimant: The Independent
claim_date: 2016-11-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/deliveroo-unions-gig-economy/
title: Deliveroo, unions and the ‘gig economy’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s likely, but not completely guaranteed since the Central Arbitration Committee may decide that the drivers should hold a ballot on union representation anyway. The appointed panel would also have to decide that Deliveroo drivers are ‘workers’, not self-employed contractors.


claimant: Jen Robinson
claim_date: 2018-04-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/what-was-known-about-windrush-2014/
title: What was known about Windrush in 2014? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Theresa May knew about the Windrush issue in 2014 - there was a report in 2014 which reported on these stories.

textual_rating:
The report included stories of individuals of the Windrush generation facing difficulties proving their immigration status. We don’t know whether Theresa May saw the report first-hand, though the Home Office was made aware of the findings.


text: 20,000 people a day who are sick with Covid-19 are not isolating.
claimant: Jonathan Ashworth MP
claim_date: 2021-02-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/self-isolation-test-trace/
title: Evidence doesn’t show 20,000 people ‘sick with Covid’ fail to self-isolate every day - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is a misunderstanding of figures which roughly estimated that 20,000 people a day who are asked to isolate by NHS Test and Trace (having either tested positive or come into contact with someone who has) do not do so fully.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-09-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-deaths-july-august/
title: Claims exaggerate the number of Covid-19 deaths in 2022 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
More than twice as many people died of Covid-19 in July and August 2022 than in the same months in 2021 and 2020.

textual_rating:
This is misleading, because it uses a measure of Covid deaths that includes many people who died for other reasons in 2022. Overall, far fewer people have died of Covid in 2022 compared with 2021 or 2020.


text: The majority of British Jews are Zionists.
claimant: Jonathan Sacks
claim_date: 2018-09-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/are-majority-british-jews-zionists/
title: Are the majority of British Jews Zionists? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-09-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A 2015 survey found about 3 in 5 British Jews identify as Zionists, though the term isn’t clearly defined. 9 in 10 British Jews support the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state.


text: An image shows a picture of clouds and another shows a picture of chemtrails.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-05-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/contrails-not-chemtrails-pictures-clouds/
title: Photo of ‘chemtrails’ shows contrails made from water vapour - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The picture of “chemtrails” actually shows contrails—formed behind planes when water vapour freezes in cold temperatures leaving lines in the sky.


text: If we leave the EU, fuel bills will be lower.
claimant: Michael Gove, Boris Johnson and Gisela Stuart
claim_date: 2016-05-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/what-could-happen-vat-and-energy-prices-if-we-leave-eu/
title: What could happen to VAT and energy prices if we leave the EU? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Leaving aside the wider economic impacts of leaving the EU, if we vote to leave the government could choose to remove the 5% VAT rate on fuel as Vote Leave has suggested. Having the power to do this doesn’t necessarily mean energy bills will be lower if we leave.


text: Lots of scientists think vaccines kill more people than they save.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-11-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/radio-4-you-and-yours-vaccine-hesitancy/
title: Radio 4 programme featured Covid vaccine misinformation - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We don’t know which scientists are being referred to, but Covid-19 vaccines have saved vastly more lives than they have cost.


text: A third of people hospitalised with malnutrition in the year to April 2023 were children.
claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2023-08-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/sun-children-malnutrition/
title: A very small share of malnutrition cases in hospital are in children - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not correct. It comes from FOI data reported by the Times, which shows that about 3% of malnutrition admissions in England were children in the year to April 2023.


text: Economic inactivity is up by half a million since the spring of 2019 largely because of long Covid.
claimant: BBC Radio 4
claim_date: 2022-11-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/bbc-today-long-covid-ecnomic-inactivity/
title: How much of the rise in ‘economic inactivity’ is due to long Covid? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Economic inactivity because of long-term sickness has risen by about half a million in that time. But some of that rise predates the pandemic and data from the Office for National Statistics and independent analysis suggests much of it is due to factors other than long Covid.


text: The UK spends more than the average rich country on health services.
claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2017-01-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/global-health-spending-how-does-uk-compare/
title: Global health spending: how does the UK compare? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct if you compare the proportion of GDP health spending made up in the UK in 2014 with the OECD. This includes private spending and social care which aren’t always included in figures on health spending in the UK.


text: One in 10 pagers currently being used across the world are owned by the NHS.
claimant: Mail Online
claim_date: 2023-06-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/labour-nhs-pagers/
title: Labour fails to back up claim that the NHS owns 10% of the world’s pagers - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Labour has not provided evidence which backs up this claim. The figure was used by the Department of Health and Social Care four years ago, and may stem from coverage of a clinical messaging company’s 2017 report, which is no longer in circulation. Other more recent figures from US pager companies suggest the NHS may account for far fewer than 10% of the world’s pagers.


text: A vaccinated pilot died mid-flight, causing an emergency landing.
claimant: The Tatty Journal
claim_date: 2021-10-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/delta-airlines-pilot-died-mid-flight-false/
title: Vaccinated pilot did not die mid-flight - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This appears to be based on a widely debunked claim that a pilot working for Delta Airlines died during a flight. There is no evidence this happened.


text: The Great Train Robbery robbers served at least 30 years.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-02-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/kray-twins-great-train-terrorists-jail/
title: Claim about the Kray Twins and great train robbers’ prison releases are false - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Several of those involved in the Great Train Robbery were sentenced to 30 years in prison. But none that we’re aware of served the whole 30 years for that crime.


text: The Queen and her children do not have passports to travel.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/no-the-p-on-your-passport-does-not-stand-for-peasant/
title: No, the ‘P’ on your passport does not stand for ‘peasant’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Queen doesn’t need a passport, as she is the issuer of these documents, but all other members of the Royal Family have them.


text: Members of the House of Lords get £300 a day.
claimant: Camilla Tominey
claim_date: 2018-05-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/how-much-money-do-members-house-lords-get/
title: How much money do members of the House of Lords get? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Generally, members of the Lords can claim £300 a day for attendance or choose to claim a lower rate, or not at all. They can also claim for some expenses.


claimant: BBC Today
claim_date: 2017-02-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/how-much-can-we-charge-people-overseas-use-nhs/
title: How much can we charge people from overseas to use the NHS? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government will fall short of its ambition to recover £500 million a year from overseas patients next year.

textual_rating:
The government has an ambition to recover £500 million a year by 2017/18 from overseas patients not eligible for free NHS treatment in England. But it has estimated that the NHS will actually charge about £346 million that year.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/vaccine-damage-poster/
review_date: 2022-05-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A poster which appears to be from the government says people who have noticed “declining health” since their Covid-19 vaccine and who weren’t made aware of the risks are entitled to compensation of £120,000.

title:
Facebook image promoting vaccine damage payments scheme is not an official government poster - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The poster is not an official government one. It links to the genuine vaccine damage payment scheme, but that’s for people severely disabled by certain vaccines (including those for Covid-19).


text: Deprived areas are facing the most significant cuts to adult social care budgets.
claimant: Angela Rayner
claim_date: 2017-05-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/are-most-significant-council-budget-cuts-deprived-areas/
title: Are the most significant council budget cuts in deprived areas? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Council spending on adult social care hasn’t reduced on average as steeply as for some other services, but the reductions have been highest in areas with the greatest need, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.


text: MPs were forced out of hospital and their sick beds to vote in Commons.
claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2018-06-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/sick-mps-vote-brexit/
title: Did some MPs have to leave their sickbeds to vote on Brexit? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A convention allowing unwell or pregnant MPs who are on parliamentary grounds to vote without entering the division lobby wasn’t applied to a vote on the Brexit bill last week. This meant one sick MP, and two heavily pregnant MPs who wanted to vote were obliged to physically enter the lobby.


text: The EU wants the UK to pay £60 billion before they negotiate a post-Brexit trade deal.
claimant: David Dimbleby
claim_date: 2017-01-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/how-much-will-uk-have-pay-eu-once-brexit-negotiated/
title: How much will the UK have to pay the EU once Brexit is negotiated? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We can’t verify this yet. Experts and a number of media reports have suggested that the final bill to the EU once Brexit is negotiated could be anywhere between €20 and €70 billion. We asked the EU who told us it couldn’t comment.


text: People with a terminal illness are being declared fit to work and told to apply for jobs.
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/can-people-with-terminal-illnesses-be-declared-fit-work/
title: Can people with terminal illnesses be declared fit to work? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Examples of this happening have been reported by the media and charities, but it’s not supposed to. We don’t know how widespread this is.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-07-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/registered-keeper-car/
title: Registering as a car’s keeper doesn’t automatically mean you don’t own it - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Even if you have purchased your car you don’t technically own it, you are just the keeper, and your car paperwork proves this.

textual_rating:
This is not true, and misunderstands the purpose of car registration—which should be in the name of its regular user. The V5C document is not proof of ownership.


text: Kary B Mullis, inventor of PCR tests, said they cannot detect free infectious viruses.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Kary-B-Mullis-quote/
title: PCR tests are not ‘a fraud’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This quote does not come from Mullis himself, but from an article about him. PCR tests accurately detect particular viral genetic material, such as genetic material of the virus that causes Covid-19, rather than testing directly for infectivity.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/spanish-flu-second-wave-quarantine/
title: The 1918 pandemic did have a deadly second wave, but not due to quarantine being lifted - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A post claims that the 1918 influenza bout had a deadly second wave after quarantine restrictions were lifted.

textual_rating:
It is true the second wave of the pandemic was the most deadly, but it did not happen due to lifting of quarantine.


text: Last year almost half of maternity units in England were forced to close their doors.
claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/claim-about-maternity-units-closing-misleading/
title: This claim about maternity units closing is misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-09-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
41 of the 89 NHS trusts in England that responded to an FOI request were forced to close at least one of their units temporarily in 2017. 

46 trusts didn’t provide any information and we don’t know how many individual maternity units had to close.


text: There were 13,000 knife attacks in London.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/London-muslim-knife-attacks/
title: Muslim knife attacker claim is unfounded and implausible - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We don’t know what time period the claim refers to but there is data to show this at the time. The latest data shows the police recorded just under 15,000 knife attacks in London in 2018/19.


text: Tom Tugendhat didn’t vote for the rise in the rate of National Insurance.
claimant: Tom Tugendhat
claim_date: 2022-07-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/itv-conservative-leadership-debate/
title: ITV Conservative leadership debate: fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. Mr Tugendhat abstained from the vote, while the other leadership candidates all voted for the rise in National Insurance.


text: The BBC is increasing the licence fee by £3.
claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/bbc-licence-fee/
title: The government sets the licence fee, not the BBC - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The licence fee is increasing by £3 a year but it is the government and not the BBC which sets the fee.


text: EU laws prevent the UK from dredging rivers.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-02-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/EU-dredging-floods/
title: EU regulations on dredging did not cause recent flooding - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. Dredging happens in the UK. Some elements of it are affecting by EU directives, but not prevented.


text: The British Medical Association is asking for a 26% pay rise for junior doctors.
claimant: Maria Caulfield
claim_date: 2023-02-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/junior-doctors-pay-demands-35-not-26/
title: Newspapers and health minister understate junior doctors’ pay demand - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not correct. The BMA claims that junior doctors’ pay has fallen 26% since 2008/9, and asked the government to restore it to this level. This would amount to a rise of about 35%.


claimant: Facebook User
claim_date: 2021-11-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/1918-pandemic-meningitis-vaccine/
title: Spanish Flu pandemic wasn’t caused by a meningitis vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Spanish Flu did not originate in Spain. It actually originated in Fort Riley, Kansas due to an experimental bacterial meningitis.

textual_rating:
There continues to be a debate about where geographically the 1918 pandemic began, and there were some early cases documented in Fort Riley, Kansas. However, experts say there is “no way” that a meningitis vaccine could have contributed to starting a flu epidemic.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/st-marys-video-bodies-ecuador/
title: This video of body bags in a hospital was not filmed in St Mary’s, London - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-04-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect, the hospital trust confirmed it wasn’t filmed there. It was filmed in Ecuador.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video showing body bags lying on the floor of various rooms inside a hospital was filmed in St Mary’s Hospital, London.


text: The Covid-19 vaccines are a mass clinical trial and won’t get to phase 3 trials until 2023.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-06-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/car-multiclaim-video/
title: Video in a car shares misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The three Covid-19 vaccines currently in use in the UK have been through many stages of clinical trial and had phase 3 trial data published in peer reviewed journals. The phase 3 trials include long-term follow-up and have completion dates set for 2022 and 2023.


text: NHS Test and Trace spent £37 billion on an app.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-02-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/pandemic-overspending-facebook-video/
title: Test and Trace money wasn’t just spent on an app - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
NHS Test and Trace was allocated £37 billion for the first two years of operation, but expects to spend about £28 billion. The tracing app accounted for less than 1% of this spend, most of which went on testing.


text: MPs get free phone calls.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mps-free-housing-alcohol/
title: What can MPs claim on expenses? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
MPs can claim for phone calls in their constituency offices. MPs eligible for housing expenses can claim for work-related telephone calls at that home.


text: Sub-standard care and staffing at weekends is responsible for thousands of deaths.
claimant: Faisal Islam
claim_date: 2015-05-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nobody-knows-how-many-lives-could-be-saved-seven-day-nhs/
title: Nobody knows how many lives could be saved by a seven-day NHS - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There's no way to be sure. Research suggests thousands of "excess deaths" for patients admitted at weekends, but not that this is due to poor care.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/conte-bolsonaro-covid-coronavirus/
title: This “quote” from the Italian Prime Minister about coronavirus is made up - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This quote is made up.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Italian Prime Minister has said his country has exhausted all options to fight against the coronavirus pandemic and pleads to God to “rescue your people.”


text: The steel industry has been decimated over many years.
claimant: Laura Pidcock
claim_date: 2018-03-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/british-steel/
title: 32,000 people work in the British steel industry - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-03-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The number of people employed in steel in the UK - not including steel processing - has fallen from 320,000 in 1971 to 24,000 in 2016.


text: From 1997-2010 Labour sold off the majority of NHS hospital buildings to private investors.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-11-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pfi-nhs-cost-labour/
title: Labour hospital and acute care PFI contracts in England cost £1.4 billion in 2017/18 - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. We don’t know exactly what proportion of hospitals are funded by PFI contracts, but it’s a minority.


text: The Chancellor’s Spring Statement left the average household £2,600 a year worse off.
claimant: Steve Reed
claim_date: 2022-05-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/steve-reed-2600-bbc-breakfast-good-morning-britain/
title: Shadow cabinet member uses misleading £2,600 cost of living figure on BBC, ITV and Sky - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure appears to be based on a previous Labour estimate for how much worse off families will be this year, which used unreliable assumptions and excluded changes to wages and benefits. Independent estimates suggest the average household will be significantly worse off in 2022/23, but by less than Labour’s figure of £2,620.


text: The UK gets a one-third reduction on the fee we pay for being in the EU.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2019-02-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/brexit-whats-germany-plus-deal/
title: Brexit: What’s a “Germany plus” deal? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK gets a rebate on its EU budget contribution, which averaged 24% from 2013-2017. The EU has signalled that it proposes to scrap rebates (for all EU countries that receive one) over the next decade.


text: £10 billion extra funding for the English NHS will pay for new seven-day services.
claimant: Department of Health
claim_date: 2016-09-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/can-seven-day-nhs-be-paid/
title: Can a "seven-day NHS" be paid for? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The government maintains this will happen, but experts doubt it’s possible without more money, as the original plans didn’t factor in the cost of seven-day services. It also needs the NHS to meet ambitious savings targets.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-09-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/dont-stop-getting-tested/
review_date: 2020-09-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If people stopped getting tested, the government wouldn’t see the number of cases, and we wouldn’t have more lockdowns.

title:
People deciding not to get tested will not make it look as though coronavirus has been wiped out - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The number of positive cases isn’t the only measure used to understand the spread of the virus. The number of tests and things like test positivity are also used. A lack of testing might lead to an extended pandemic.


text: Under Boris Johnson’s deal, Scotland’s economy would be 6% weaker than if we remained.
claimant: Ian Blackford
claim_date: 2019-11-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/1600-per-person-scotland-brexit/
title: Claim that Brexit will cost every Scot £1,600 is not right - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is a dated estimate and isn’t definitive. 6% is roughly how much smaller the Scottish government estimated the country’s GDP would be in 2030 in the case of a free trade agreement where the UK leaves the EU customs union and single market, compared to if the UK had not left the EU.


claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-09-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/NASA-photoshopped-apollo-false/
title: NASA didn’t paste a picture of the Earth into photos from the moon - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A famous photo of Earth published in 2002 is a composite image or “photoshop”. It also pastes copies of clouds across the surface.

textual_rating:
The image from 2002 is a composite image but made up of thousands of files worth of real data. The image’s creator said clouds in some places were duplicated but it is not a cover-up or hoax.


text: The mRNA vaccines are not safe and not effective.
claimant: Andrew Bridgen
claim_date: 2022-12-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/andrew-bridgen-vaccine-safety-debate/
title: Andrew Bridgen's vaccine debate claims fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The vaccines used in the UK have all met the MHRA’s standards for safety and effectiveness, and it says the number of Yellow Card reports received so far is not beyond what was expected. Vaccine effectiveness has changed over the course of the pandemic, but they are still effective against hospitalisation and death.


text: Officers from the EU law enforcement agency, Europol, are immune from prosecution.
claimant: Via email
claim_date: 2015-04-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/ask-full-fact-europol-and-diplomatic-immunity/
title: Ask Full Fact: Europol and diplomatic immunity - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-08-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn't correct. Europol staff working on an investigation in a member state are in the same position as ordinary officers when it comes to criminal prosecution.


text: £30 billion was wiped off the economy under Liz Truss’s government.
claimant: Stephen Flynn
claim_date: 2023-02-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/pmqs-snp-uk-economy-truss/
title: SNP's claim that Liz Truss’s government cost UK economy £30bn is not reliable - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The estimates this figure is based on related to the cost to the Treasury, not the UK economy. The impact on the economy is much harder to estimate.


text: NASA data shows that global temperatures dropped sharply over the past two years.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/not-experiencing-global-cooling/
title: No, we are not experiencing “global cooling” - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The average global temperature was slightly lower in 2017 and 2018 than in 2016. But global temperatures tend to fluctuate from one year to the next and the clear overall trend is that the planet is getting hotter over time: 2016 was the hottest year on record, 2017 was the second-hottest, and 2018 was the fourth-hottest.


text: The animals in the Covid-19 vaccine trials had a 100% death rate.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-10-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/there-no-hiv-covid-19-vaccines/
title: There is no HIV in the Covid-19 vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Experts told Full Fact that animals in this type of trial are normally euthanised and that if animals had died due to the vaccine, human trials would have been halted.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/dialling-55-doesnt-track-location/
title: It’s not true that dialling 55 in a silent 999 call lets the police track your location - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If you call 999 in an emergency but can’t speak, press 55 and they can track where you are calling from using new technology.

textual_rating:
If you can’t talk during a 999 call, dialling 55 should route your call to the police. But it won’t automatically track your location, and it’s not always possible to pinpoint your exact location if calling from a mobile.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-03-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/emergency-alert-respond-personal-data/
title: Emergency alert won’t ‘access personal data’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The emergency alert test on Sunday 23 April will be a message you must respond to in order to use your phone.

textual_rating:
It will be a notification you will need to acknowledge to use other features but it will not, for example, end an existing phone call.


text: Surgical masks offer no protection against Covid-19 and are “no good”.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/evidence-shows-masks-do-offer-protection-covid-19/
title: The evidence shows surgical masks do offer protection from Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
While surgical masks won’t remove the chance of contracting Covid-19, there is evidence which suggests they reduce the chance of infection, the severity of infection and the spread of the disease.


text: Dr Anthony Fauci has said that Covid-19 vaccines don’t protect against Covid or death.
claimant: Principia Scientific International
claim_date: 2021-11-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fauci-boosters/
title: Dr Fauci did not ‘admit’ Covid-19 vaccines aren’t working - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
He didn’t. He actually said that evidence from Israel had shown that immunity against Covid-19, hospitalisation from it, and to a certain extent deaths from it, appeared to decrease over time.


text: An actor was hired to pretend that she had been hospitalised with Covid-19.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-12-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/hospital-training-covid-germany-false/
title: Actor pretended to have Covid-19 for hospital training exercise, not for propaganda - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The person in the video was part of a training exercise in a German hospital. It was not done to create Covid propaganda.


text: Coronavirus is as deadly as the flu.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccine-rap-battle/
title: Vaccine rap battle full of misinformation - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Without vaccination, evidence shows that Covid-19 has a higher fatality rate than the flu. Restrictions such as lockdowns, which are not implemented for the flu, also suppressed the number of deaths.


text: Up to 650,000 people die a year from the flu.
claimant: Vernon Coleman
claim_date: 2021-07-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Vernon-Coleman-Trafalgar-Square-conspiracy-claims-false/
title: Trafalgar Square “Freedom Rally” speech littered with false claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the top-end estimate of a  modelled global total which is still fewer than the number of people who died from Covid-19 last year. At least 3 million people across the world died of Covid-19 in 2020.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fireworks-london/
title: Fireworks are not banned in London on New Year’s Eve - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Mayor of London has cancelled New Year’s Eve celebrations and will not allow fireworks but will allow fireworks for Diwali.

textual_rating:
The Mayor’s New Year’s Eve fireworks on the banks of the Thames are not happening because of the pandemic, but fireworks in general are allowed up until 1am on New Year’s Eve, as they always are. This is also the case for Diwali.


claimant: instagram user
claim_date: 2022-06-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid19-vaccine-sads-deaths/
review_date: 2022-06-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: There is no evidence for this. The designation of SADS significantly predates the pandemic.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Deaths from Covid-19 vaccines are being miscategorised as deaths from “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome”.

title:
No evidence deaths from Sudden Adult Death Syndrome are really caused by Covid-19 vaccines - Full Fact


text: One third of private rented homes don't meet basic health and safety standards.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2015-09-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/state-private-rented-homes/
title: The state of private rented homes - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-11-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Close to a third of private rented properties don't meet the official Decent Homes Standard, but health and safety is only one possible reason a home can fail that. A sixth of private rental homes failed minimum health and safety standards in 2013.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2023-02-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/dog-rubble-turkey-earthquake-stock-photo/
title: Dog pictured by rubble was not taken in Turkey earthquake aftermath - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-10T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The photo is a stock image taken in 2018.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photo shows a picture of a dog lying next to a person trapped under rubble following the earthquake affecting Turkey and Syria.


text: The trains don’t run on time.
claimant: Shami Chakrabarti
claim_date: 2018-06-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/are-rail-fares-out-control/
title: Are rail fares out of control? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Around 87% of trains in Britain arrived at their destination within five or 10 minutes of their schedule, in the year to May 2018. Around 62% arrived within a minute of their schedule.


text: The maximum state pension in the UK is £141 while in Germany it’s £507.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-08-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/germany-pensions-refugees-illegal-immigrants/
title: Historic claim on refugee and pensioner incomes is still wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The full state pension in the UK is between £141.85 and £185.15 a week. The German system doesn’t have a maximum, and isn’t a flat rate, but a points system dependent on earnings.


text: An NHS doctor who spoke out about the lack of PPE on the BBC has been suspended.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ppe-doctor/
review_date: 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
A doctor claims his contract was terminated after talking about PPE shortages to the press - Full Fact

textual_rating:
A doctor has told us his contract working at an NHS hospital was terminated because of comments he made to the BBC about a lack of PPE.


text: Sir Alex Ferguson said the European Super League sells supporters “down the river”.
claimant: SPORTBible
claim_date: 2021-04-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/football-klopp-mourinho-ferguson-fake-quotes/
title: Fake football quotes go viral - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence Sir Alex said exactly this in relation to the Super League, although he has said the Super League represents a move away from 70 years of club football history.


text: Covid-19 vaccines are killing many people according to data on the VAERS system.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-01-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaers-covid-vaccine-deaths/
title: Some people have died after Covid-19 vaccination—not because of it - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Reports on VAERS are not evidence that the vaccine caused these deaths. Data collected so far suggests that Covid vaccines are safe.


text: The EU currently represents 15% of the world's economy and it’s forecast to go down to 12% by 2030.
claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2017-11-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-less-important-world-economy/
title: Is the EU becoming less important to the world economy? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-11-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no single estimate, but two separate IMF figures say the EU’s share (including the UK) of the global economy is around either 16% or 22% in 2017. That share has been decreasing and is expected to continue doing so. One estimate for 2030 says it could fall to around 12% (assuming the UK is no longer part of the EU).


text: Images online show the rubbish left behind after the 2019 Glastonbury festival.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-06-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/glastonbury-rubbish/
title: These are photos of rubbish left after various Glastonbury festivals - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The images are of Glastonbury Festival; some of the images are of this year’s festival, although others are older.


claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2022-03-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/express-pfizer-vaccine-adverse-events/
title: Express publishes misleading article about safety of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The publication of a Pfizer document in 2022 is the first time that the public have been able to view data from its clinical trials that was submitted for the Covid-19 vaccine’s approval.

textual_rating:
This is not true. Some clinical trial data for the vaccine’s first approval was published in December 2020. The data in this latest document is not exclusively from clinical trials.


text: The NHS is free for all 500 million EU citizens.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/nhs-treatment-eu-citizens/
title: Which NHS treatments are free for EU citizens? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
People normally need to be “ordinarily resident” in the UK get free healthcare, and EU visitors are entitled to free NHS treatment for unplanned illnesses. Similarly UK citizens are entitled to free (or discounted) state healthcare when visiting other EU countries.


text: After nine years of a Conservative government, homelessness is up 170%.
claimant: Freddie Bailey
claim_date: 2019-10-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/nine-years-of-conservative-government/
title: Viral post about Conservatives’ record in government gets lots of things wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The estimated number of rough sleepers is up 165% in England between 2010 and 2018, under coalition and Conservative governments. But this data is known to undercount rough sleeping so those figures are not definitive. Also many people who aren’t sleeping rough are also defined as homeless. The number of households that were homeless for any reason increased by 41% between 2009/10 and 2017/18 in England.


text: A photograph shows Prince Philip dressed up in guardsman’s uniform as a prank to amuse the Queen.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-04-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/queen-philip-laughing-at-bees/
title: Prince Philip did not dress up in a bearskin for a prank - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This photograph does show Prince Philip in the uniform of the Grenadier Guards, but it was not a prank. He was the Colonel of the Regiment.


text: British old age pensioners get £106 a week.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pensioners-refugees-benefits/
title: Viral image about pensioners and refugees is wrong on every single number - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A full British state pension is worth £125.95 or £164.35 a week before top-ups (depending on when you were born).


text: House prices fell last month to 14-year lows.
claimant: The Daily Telegraph
claim_date: 2023-09-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/telegraph-house-prices/
title: House prices haven’t fallen to a 14-year low - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t correct. According to Halifax house prices fell by an average 4.6% in the year to August 2023. This was the biggest annual fall since 2009, but actual average house prices remain far higher than they were 14 years ago.


text: George Osborne promised to eliminate the deficit by 2015.
claimant: John McDonnell, Shadow Chancellor
claim_date: 2015-11-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/did-george-osborne-promise-eliminate-deficit-year/
title: Did George Osborne promise to eliminate the deficit by this year? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-11-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In 2010 he said that the government's aim was for the deficit to be eliminated by 2015. While an aim isn't a promise, the government's performance on the deficit has been worse than was aimed for.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-06-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/normandy-women/
title: This is not a photo of women of the Red Cross landing at Normandy - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
This photo shows women working for the Red Cross arriving at Normandy beach in 1944 to assist injured troops.

textual_rating:
It is a photo of women working for the Red Cross arriving in Southern France in 1945 to “keep high the spirits” of American soldiers.


claimant: public
claim_date: 2022-02-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/dynamo-kyiv-football-squad-photo-army-uniform/
title: Photograph of men in military uniform doesn’t show squad members of FC Dynamo Kyiv - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photograph shows the Dynamo Kyiv football team in army uniform preparing to fight in the Russia-Ukraine war.

textual_rating:
The photograph doesn’t show any members of the football squad, but instead shows members of a nationalist group in Ukraine.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-04-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/m1-m25-cameras-72-mph/
title: New speed cameras with a limit of 72mph haven’t been set up on the M1 or M25 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: National Highways has confirmed this is untrue.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
New cameras are being set live on the M25 and M1, with an automatic fine for anyone caught driving over 72mph.


text: The American economy is growing fast.
claimant: Matt Hancock
claim_date: 2018-04-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/global-economic-growth/
title: Comparing economic growth across the world - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
US GDP grew 2.3% in real terms in 2017, according to the IMF. That’s faster than the UK but slower than the EU. The IMF expects US growth to slow slightly in the coming years.


claimant: Clive Lewis MP
claim_date: 2018-06-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-carbon-emissions-targets/
title: The UK is not on track to meet its carbon emissions targets for the next 15 years - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The climate change committee says that the Government is way off target with its climate change commitments and carbon targets.

textual_rating:
The government is off target. In June 2018, the Committee on Climate Change said “the fact is that we’re off track to meet our own emissions targets in the 2020s and 2030s.”


claimant: Tracy Brabin
claim_date: 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/shared-parental-leave-self-employed-people/
title: Shared parental leave: self-employed people - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-11-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Self-employed mothers take on the burden of childcare and fathers don’t get financial support or bonding time with their child as they aren’t eligible for shared parental leave.

textual_rating:
Self-employed mothers can exchange their maternity allowance for shared parental leave and pay for their partner, if he is employed—but they have to give up the maternity allowance. Self-employed fathers aren’t eligible for any time off or pay after having a child.


claimant: Alleged messages from Boris Johnson reported by BBC
claim_date: 2021-07-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/boris-johnson-whatsapp-covid-life-expectancy-cummings/
title: Average Covid-19 victim dies years before they otherwise would - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The average age of Covid-19 deaths is higher than the average life expectancy, which means that people who get Covid live longer.

textual_rating:
This isn’t how life expectancy works. Life expectancy is an average, pulled down by people who die young. As you age, your life expectancy increases. People dying from Covid-19 lose about a decade of life on average.


text: There are 5,000 fewer mental health nurses since 2010.
claimant: Royal College of Nursing
claim_date: 2017-07-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/are-mental-health-nurse-numbers-down/
title: Are mental health nurse numbers down? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-07-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct looking just at mental health nurses and excluding those who work in learning disabilities. NHS Digital, which publishes the figures, uses a broader definition of mental health nurse that includes both groups. Looking at both of these the number of nurses has decreased by around 7,000 since 2010.


claimant: Amber Rudd, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
claim_date: 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
title: What effect on the public purse would closing the Renewables Obligation early have? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-12-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The saving to the public purse from closing the Renewables Obligation (RO) to onshore wind a year early is up to £270 million a year.

url:
https://fullfact.org/economy/what-effect-public-purse-would-closing-renewables-obligation-early-have/

textual_rating:
The government won't improve its finances by closing the RO early, as the scheme is paid for by energy suppliers and their consumers. £270 million is the government's upper estimate of how much the closure could save them.


text: Respiratory insufficiency means fluid in the lungs and pulmonary edema means acute heart failure.
claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2023-05-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/ray-liotta-heart-failure/
title: Errors corrected in Sun article about Ray Liotta’s cause of death - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Pulmonary oedema (or edema) means fluid in the lungs, and while it is most commonly caused by heart failure, other conditions can cause it. This fluid can then cause respiratory insufficiency, which again has other possible causes.


text: The government spent £2.8 million protecting Donald Trump.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2018-09-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/meme-on-government-spending/
title: How much of this meme on government spending is true? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This was reportedly the extra cost to the Metropolitan Police for policing Donald Trump’s visit to London and Windsor (not including the protests). Since the tweet was written, the National Police Chiefs’ Council has said an “early estimate” of the total cost is nearly £18 million.


text: Stopping all sugar intake will cause all cancer cells in your body to die.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/sugar-lemon-coconut-not-cancer-cures/
title: Lemon juice, coconut oil and stopping all sugar intake won’t cure cancer - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There’s no evidence that this will lower the risk of getting cancer, or boost the chances of surviving if you are diagnosed.


claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-06-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/daily-cases-vaccine-coverage/
title: Vaccines have not caused daily cases to increase - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In the UK on 1 July 2020, no one had been vaccinated against Covid-19 and there were 63 new daily cases.

textual_rating:
The vaccines hadn’t been rolled out at this point, and there were 658 new infections on this date in 2020.


text: The government spent £200 million stopping benefit appeals.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2018-09-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/meme-on-government-spending/
title: How much of this meme on government spending is true? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Department for Work and Pensions’ direct operating costs for mandatory reconsiderations and appeal tribunals for certain disability and illness benefits was £199 million between 2013/14 and 2017/18. That’s not the same as ‘stopping’ the appeals.


text: Average pay has finally surpassed its pre-crisis peak.
claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2020-02-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/earnings-februrary-2020/
title: Whether wages have passed their pre-crisis level depends on whether you include bonuses - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
True, for average weekly earnings in GB, if you don’t count bonuses. Average weekly total earnings including bonuses is still below the pre-crisis peak.


claimant: Sam Gyimah
claim_date: 2017-11-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/social-mobility-england-still-all-about-northsouth-divide/
title: Is social mobility in England still all about the North/South divide? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
£72 million is going towards specific areas of the country, including Scarborough, to help improve the quality of education.

textual_rating:
Correct. The “Opportunity Areas” programme will provide £72 million for 12 areas of the country ranked low for social mobility. North Yorkshire, including Scarborough, will seek to improve early years education, maths and literacy skills and secondary school places through the programme.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/microsoft-sony-shut-down-gaming-servers/
title: Xbox and PlayStation servers are not being shut down during school hours - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is not true. Microsoft and Sony haven’t announced these measures.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
From 23 March until the foreseeable future, Microsoft and Sony will shut down their gaming servers during UK school hours.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-06-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/False-passage-Great-Reset-Schwab/
title: World Economic Forum founder did not write book about ‘organised epidemics’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab wrote in “Covid-19: The Great Reset” that four billion people would die through planned epidemics, war and starvation by 2050.

textual_rating:
He didn’t say that. It’s a passage from a 1992 conspiratorial text which seems to wrongly attribute it to novelist H.G. Wells.


text: A picture shows mushrooms growing out of the hand of a dead raccoon.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/raccoon-mushroom/
title: Fungi growing ‘out of’ dead possum’s hand is staged - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The photo is staged, and shows a type of fungi (which does commonly grow around decaying corpses) which has been placed in the paw of a dead possum.


text: Priti Patel spent £77,000 on eyebrows and other beauty products.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-03-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/priti-patel-eyebrows-ppe/
title: Home Office denies £77,000 was spent on eyebrows and beauty products - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This sum was paid to a company selling eyebrow products and services, but the Home Office has said the money was spent on PPE. The company in question does also sell PPE.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-02-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/oxford-residents-permit-district/
title: Oxford residents won’t require a permit to ‘leave their district’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Oxford residents will require a permit to leave their district more than 100 times in a year from 2024, and face being fined if they don’t have one.

textual_rating:
This isn’t true. Residents will still be able to travel anywhere without a permit, though Oxfordshire County Council’s traffic filter plan will require many drivers to have a permit in order to use six major roads across the city.


text: Persistent absence has come down slightly “since the pandemic”.
claimant: Nick Gibb
claim_date: 2023-08-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/persistent-absence-rates/
title: What do the figures on persistent absence from school show? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s true that looking at all pupils in England, the persistent absence rate in 2022/23 fell by 0.2 percentage points compared to 2021/22. But in secondary schools the rate rose by 0.5 percentage points over that period, and overall rates of persistent absence are much higher than before the pandemic.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/omar-salem-boris-johnson-microphone/
review_date: 2019-09-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: He wasn’t, according to eye witnesses, photographs and audio of the exchange.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Omar Salem, the man with a sick daughter who confronted Boris Johnson at Whipps Cross hospital, was wearing a microphone.

title:
There’s absolutely no evidence the man who confronted Boris Johnson in a hospital was wearing a microphone - Full Fact


text: The WHO has been working on a vaccine to cause permanent sterility.
claimant: Rima Laibow
claim_date: 2023-02-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/WHO-vaccines-sterility-squalene-rima-laibow/
title: The WHO is not working on vaccines to create ‘permanent sterility’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The WHO has led research into fertility regulating vaccines but these are explicitly not designed to be permanent, and are meant to offer alternatives to already existing contraceptive methods.


claimant: Labour party
claim_date: 2021-03-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/labour-graph-army-reductions/
title: Labour graph showing reduction in army size is misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Conservatives cut the army from 98,000 personnel in 2010 to 72,500 in 2021 - a reduction of over 25,000.

textual_rating:
72,500 represents the planned army size by 2025, not the actual army size in 2021. In 2021 at its smallest the army had 76,348 full-time trade-trained personnel—around  21,650 fewer than in 2010.


text: The salary of a newly qualified nurse was £22,000 in 2010 and the same in 2018.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/public-sector-pay-tweet/
title: This tweet on public sector pay doesn’t factor in inflation - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This doesn’t take into account inflation. In 2018 prices, a fully qualified nurse’s starting salary was £24,900 in 2010 and £23,000 in 2018.


text: A new trial drug being tested by Pfizer is actually ivermectin being rebranded.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/new-protease-inhibitor/
title: Pfizer’s new trial drug is not ivermectin in disguise - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. There may be similarities in how they work, but the two drugs are structurally very different.


claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2018-06-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/millennial-unhealthier-than-parents/
title: Millennial malaise: unhealthier than their parents? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Millennials are on track to become the first generation to suffer worse health than their parents when they reach middle age, a study has warned.

textual_rating:
A report by the Health Foundation says “The gains made as a society in improving the health of previous generations may well be eroded by the precariousness and instability of the lives some young people are facing.” We’ve asked it for more information.


text: There has been a 10% funding cut in real terms in sixth form and further education.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2016-03-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/are-sixth-forms-and-further-education-colleges-better-funded/
title: Are sixth forms and further education colleges better funded? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-03-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s correct. Spending for 16-19 year olds in sixth forms and colleges fell by 10% between 2010/11 and 2014/15, after accounting for inflation, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.


text: A picture shows trees that have been cut down before 5G is launched.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/trees-not-chopped-down-for-5g/
title: These trees weren’t cut down because of 5G - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The picture is of felled trees in Serbia, as part of redevelopment works, which are due to be replaced by new trees. There’s no evidence this had anything to do with 5G.


text: A woman in her twenties will earn 95p for every pound that young men of their age earn.
claimant: Jo Swinson
claim_date: 2017-01-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/age-motherhood-gender-pay-gap/
title: Age, motherhood and the gender pay gap - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s what you’d expect on average. If you knew nothing about two people apart from the fact that one was a woman, one was a man, and both were working and in their twenties, you’d expect the woman to earn about 5% less than the man.


text: The Conservatives’ poll lead has fallen following recent policy announcements on tax and spending.
claimant: Mail on Sunday
claim_date: 2017-04-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/little-evidence-conservatives-poll-lead-narrowing/
title: Little evidence the Conservatives’ poll lead is narrowing - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-04-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There’s little evidence for this: this is comparing polls from two different companies which use different polling methods. Recent polls have generally shown Conservative leads approaching or exceeding 20 percentage points.


text: Taking statins cuts the risk of dying of Covid-19.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2021-10-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/express-statins-covid/
title: Study doesn’t prove that statins ‘cut’ the risk of dying from Covid - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We do not know if this is true. A new scientific study found that people taking statins were less likely to die of Covid-19—but it did not find that the statins themselves cut the risk.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-03-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/putin-balloon-picture-banksy/
title: Picture of Putin popping Ukraine balloon isn’t a Banksy - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: A spokesperson for the artist confirmed Banksy had nothing to do with the picture.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A picture of Putin holding a needle to a Ukraine balloon and exploding was created by the artist Banksy.


text: Millions of people who voted Leave did not vote for Theresa May’s hard Brexit.
claimant: Jo Swinson
claim_date: 2017-04-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/public-support-hard-brexit/
title: Public support for a "hard Brexit" - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-04-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We can’t know for certain. More recent polling could be used to show this—if being against a “hard Brexit” is defined as prioritising free trade over immigration control.


text: The Scottish onshore economy is as strong as the UK’s generally.
claimant: Fiona Hyslop
claim_date: 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/comparing-scottish-uk-growth-rates/
title: Comparing Scottish and UK growth rates - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There’s more than one way to look at this. The UK’s economy has been growing faster than Scotland’s recently, according to official estimates.


text: A&E admissions for alcohol poisoning have doubled.
claimant: ITV News
claim_date: 2015-12-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/have-e-admissions-alcohol-poisoning-doubled/
title: Have A&E admissions for alcohol poisoning doubled? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-12-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The attendance rate to A&E for alcohol poisoning has doubled over six years, according to research. This counts people regardless of what treatment they get and isn't the same as being admitted to a ward. Emergency admissions to a hospital ward due to alcohol have increased by over a half over a period of nine years.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/wolf-pack-BBC-frozen-planet/
title: Facebook post about wolves makes howling errors - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photo of a wolf pack shows how they are separated in formation based on strength, with an alpha wolf that pulls up the rear and controls the whole group.

textual_rating:
The image, taken from a documentary, actually shows a wolf at the front of the group, leading the rest of them. One wolf leads to conserve energy for the rest of the pack.


claimant: Barry Gardiner
claim_date: 2019-10-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/maggot-orange-juice-USA/
review_date: 2019-11-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In the United States there are acceptable levels of rat hair in paprika and maggots in orange juice.

title:
The USA doesn’t “allow” maggots in orange juice—it sets levels at which enforcement is mandatory - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The US Food and Drug Administration sets levels of natural contaminants in food (like maggots in orange juice) above which it takes automatic enforcement action.


text: Covid-19 vaccines have caused 859,481 adverse reactions.
claimant: Piers Corbyn
claim_date: 2021-06-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Piers-Corbyn-wrong-covid-vaccine-figures/
title: Piers Corbyn makes misleading claims about vaccine deaths - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Slightly fewer adverse reactions have been reported but it doesn’t mean they have been caused by the vaccine. The vast majority are normal and clear up within a few days.


text: Poor numeracy costs our economy tens of billions a year.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-04-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/rishi-sunak-maths-unemployment/
title: The numbers behind the PM’s maths claims fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s not clear what this claim is based on, and Number 10 hasn’t provided evidence for the claim. But 2014 research did estimate the cost to the UK economy of outcomes associated with low levels of numeracy is around £20.2 billion per year, or about 1.3 per cent of GDP at the time.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2023-08-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/elon-musk-photo-young/
title: Photo of kneeling maid in apartheid-era South Africa doesn’t show Elon Musk - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photo taken of Elon Musk during his childhood shows him sitting on his mother’s lap while a black woman wearing an apron kneels next to them.

textual_rating:
The photo does not show Elon Musk. It was taken in apartheid-era Johannesburg by a photographer who has described photographing the woman, her daughter and their maid.


text: We’re already spending £7 million a day to put “economic chancers” up in hotels.
claimant: Lee Anderson
claim_date: 2023-08-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/lee-anderson-asylum-seeker-hotel-costs/
title: The government is spending £6 million a day on hotel accommodation for asylum seekers - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Home Office says that housing asylum seekers in hotels is costing £6 million a day. The £7 million figure appears to be based on a figure provided in October 2022 for the combined cost of hotels for asylum seekers, as well as bridging accommodation for Afghan citizens resettled by the UK government.


claimant: Department for Education
claim_date: 2018-09-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/school-spending-figures-misleading/
title: Government school spending figures: correct but misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The IFS found that real terms per pupil funding in 2020 will be over 50 per cent higher than it was in 2000.

textual_rating:
The IFS says: “The average level of spending per pupil by primary and secondary schools rose by around 5% per year in real terms during the 2000s and was then largely protected in real terms under the coalition government. Spending per pupil fell 4% in real terms between 2015–16 and 2017–18, but will be held constant in real terms up to 2019–20.”


claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2021-06-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/school-pupils-return-classroom-covid/
title: Pandemic school attendance: fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A hundred-thousand pupils have failed to return to school full time despite classrooms reopening in March 2021.

textual_rating:
The Centre for Social Justice, found 93,514 pupils missed more than 50% of school sessions between September to December 2020 so this is unrelated to the reopening of schools in March. Before the pandemic the figure was about 60,000.


text: A video shows Storm Eunice had arrived early in Portsmouth.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-02-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/storm-eunice-video-portsmouth/
review_date: 2022-02-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The video was taken in Poland during a different storm.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
'Storm Eunice video' supposedly showing crane fall in Portsmouth is actually from Poland - Full Fact


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-08-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/japan-bus-drivers-strike/
title: Innovative bus driver strike in Japan is not ‘currently’ happening - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Currently bus drivers in Japan are on strike, continuing to drive their routes while refusing to take fares from passengers.

textual_rating:
Although bus drivers did take this industrial action in the Japanese city of Okayama during 2018, the protest has since ended.


text: The NHS track and trace app is being automatically downloaded onto phones.
review_date: 2020-06-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/health/covid-19-track-and-trace-app-has-not-been-automatically-downloaded-peoples-phones/

title:
The Covid-19 track and trace app has not been automatically downloaded onto people’s phones - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is incorrect. What has been added is an API, which can help Covid-19 tracking apps function. The official tracking app is not available in the UK yet, outside of testing in the Isle of Wight.


claimant: Dominic Raab
claim_date: 2018-01-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/how-much-money-does-nhs-need/
title: How much money does the NHS need and how much is it actually getting? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-01-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government has put 12 billion more into the NHS than in 2010 under Labour. The government has also promised another 6 billion for the NHS.

textual_rating:
Spending on NHS England increased by £12.7 billion between 2009/10 and 2017/18, taking inflation into account. The government has said it will spend an additional £6.3 billion up to 2022/23, though that’s in cash terms.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-02-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/toby-carvery-fake/
title: Toby Carvery meal giveaway is not official - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is not a competition affiliated with the company.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Toby Carvery is offering anyone who shares and comments on a Facebook post a free meal for two with drinks.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-07-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/cancer-tumour-causes/
title: Tumours are not ‘there to save your life’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A tumour is a bag that collects poison from your body. A needle biopsy explodes the tumour and pours poison into the body, giving you cancer.

textual_rating:
Tumours are not bags of poison, they are masses of cells. Some of these are benign, but some are cancerous. Needle biopsies do not explode tumours, they are used to take a sample of cells for analysis.


text: Elephant tusks and rhino horns are being dyed pink to stop poachers killing these animals.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2015-12-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pink-dyed-tusks-horns/
review_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
The images in this post about the rhino horn and ivory trade have been digitally altered but the scheme is real - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This claims refers to a real scheme to deter poachers, but dyeing rhino horns does not lead to the bright exterior as the picture suggests—the pictures have been doctored. This scheme has only been used on rhinos, not elephants.


text: 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions.
claimant: Adam Hills
claim_date: 2018-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/are-100-companies-causing-71-carbon-emissions/
title: Are 100 companies causing 71% of carbon emissions? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Of the estimated greenhouse gas emissions from human activity (excluding certain sources like agricultural methane) between 1988 and 2015, 71% originated from 100 fossil fuel producers. This includes the emissions released when the fossil fuels they sold were subsequently used by their customers.


text: Only 3,774 people under 65 have died of Covid in the UK.
claimant: instagram user
claim_date: 2022-01-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-deaths-under-65/
title: An Instagram post underestimates Covid-19 deaths among younger people - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Up to the end of November 2021, 17,095 people under 65 died of Covid in England and Wales alone.


text: There are currently about 25,000 cases of myocarditis per million children.
claimant: twitter user
claim_date: 2023-02-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/instagram-myocarditis-children/
title: Instagram post's claims about myocarditis in children not supported by official data - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The evidence for this claim is very limited. Other evidence suggests that myocarditis in children is much rarer.


claimant: Jacob Rees-Mogg
claim_date: 2017-03-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/post-brexit-trade-tariffs/
title: Post-Brexit trade tariffs - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If we left the EU without an alternative trade deal in place then we’d still have a choice about whether to put tariffs on imports.

textual_rating:
That’s correct. In general we’d have to apply the same tariffs to all our trading partners and keep them within limits agreed at the World Trade Organisation. It would be up to other countries, not us, to choose whether to charge tariffs on our exports.


text: There is a shortage of 40,000 nurses across the UK.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-09-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/are-we-short-40000-nurses/
title: Are we short of 40,000 nurses? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-09-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct, according to an estimate of full-time equivalent nursing vacancies in December 2016 done by the Royal College of Nursing, though it only refers to England. That isn’t the same as the number of nurses NHS England needs.


text: Germany has sent a bill to China for “coronavirus damages”.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2020-04-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-damages-germany/
title: The German government hasn’t billed China for “coronavirus damages” - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-04-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. A German newspaper drew up a mock bill but the German government has not sent a bill, as suggested.


text: The number of people dying today is the same as it would be in any other year.
claimant: Anthony Brookes
claim_date: 2020-11-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-figures-talk-radio/
title: The number of people dying right now is not the same as in any other year - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not correct. Deaths in the week to 6 November were 14% higher than the average across the past five years, and higher than the maximum across the past five years.


text: HS2 will cut journey times to London by a few minutes for a few people.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/hs2-costs-labour-manifesto/
title: HS2 isn’t expected to cost as much as this post claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Official estimates suggest journey times will be cut more significantly, and currently forecast 300,000 passengers a day, although this is an uncertain figure.


text: The BBC made donations to the Conservative party.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2019-11-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/bbc-not-donate-conservative-party/
title: The BBC did not “donate” money to the Conservative party - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These weren’t donations, they were appearance fees paid to individual MPs. Many media outlets pay fees to politicians from across the political spectrum.


claimant: David Cameron
claim_date: 2015-10-07T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2015-10-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
People with white-sounding names are nearly twice as likely to get call backs for jobs than people with ethnic sounding names.

url:
https://fullfact.org/economy/job-applicants-ethnic-minority-sounding-names-are-less-likely-be-called-interview/

title:
Job applicants with ethnic minority sounding names are less likely to be called for interview - Full Fact

textual_rating:
In a 2009 experimental study, 10.7% of applicants with a white sounding name received a positive response, compared with 6.2% of applicants with an ethnic minority sounding name - making them 74% more likely to get a positive response.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-06-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/deaths-only-from-coronavirus/
title: Covid-19 is the underlying cause of death for most people who die with it - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
According to NHS England figures, the number of people whose death certificates show death from only coronavirus, i.e. no pre-existing condition, is 1,265.

textual_rating:
This was the correct number of Covid-19 deaths (but only among hospital patients) where no pre-existing condition was reported, up to 26 May. But this data isn’t the deaths “only” from coronavirus and doesn’t tell us what the underlying cause of death was. Covid-19 death was determined by a positive test result or where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.


claimant: Question Time
claim_date: 2018-07-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/satisfaction-nhs-peaked-2010/
title: Satisfaction with the NHS peaked in 2010 - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
By the end of the last Labour government we had the highest NHS satisfaction levels since it was founded.

textual_rating:
Satisfaction with the NHS in Great Britain was 70% in 2010, just after the Coalition government took office, the highest since records began in 1983.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2020-10-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/groups-swabs-covid-test/
title: Group swab Covid-19 tests do not return positives to people without the virus - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Five different people’s Covid-19 swab tests are being sent off in one vial, so one positive test will contaminate the other four, giving five positives.

textual_rating:
There are currently some trials of pooling samples, meaning a few samples are tested together to save resources. If all come out negative, they don’t need to be re-tested, but if any are positive, individual samples are tested again.


text: Food, clothing and footwear make up the highest proportion of the poorest households’ spending.
claimant: Jacob Rees-Mogg
claim_date: 2017-10-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/will-getting-rid-eu-tariffs-help-worst/
title: Will getting rid of EU tariffs help the worst off? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-10-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
What makes up the biggest chunk depends on how you categorise people’s weekly spending. These items combined make up about a quarter of the poorest households’ spending.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-12-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/placenta-protein-vaccine/
title: There’s no evidence the Pfizer vaccine interferes with the placenta - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-12-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Pfizer vaccine contains syncytin-1 which is vital for the formation of human placenta, so could lead to infertility.

textual_rating:
The vaccine contains instructions on how to build a spike protein, a very small part of which resembles syncytin-1. Realistically, there is very little chance the vaccine would cause the body to attack syncytin or cause infertility.


claimant: Jo Johnson
claim_date: 2018-04-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/parliament-vote-military-intervention/
title: Does parliament get a vote on military intervention? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There is no constitutional requirement for a Parliamentary recall or vote before military intervention.

textual_rating:
Correct. There’s no legal requirement that parliament is involved in these decisions, the power rests with the Prime Minister, through the Crown.


text: A pesticide called Monitor is used to grow potatoes for McDonald’s french fries.
claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-05-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/McDonalds-pesticide-Monitor-false/
title: McDonald’s french fries are not made from potatoes treated with the pesticide Monitor - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true in the UK, EU and US at least, where Monitor has not been approved for use for years.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/UK-EU-parliament/
review_date: 2020-08-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
650 of these are elected, 808 are unelected, and 36 were just appointed and include the Prime Minister’s brother and friends.

title:
These figures for the size of House Of Commons, House of Lords, and the EU parliament are all correct - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The 650 members of The House of Commons were elected to their positions by members of the public. 

Members of the House of Lords are elected by the Prime Minister, the Lords Appointment Commission, or other peers. A recent announcement of new peers did include Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s brother.


text: There are more than 1,000 fewer armed police officers since 2010.
claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2017-06-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/have-armed-police-numbers-been-cut/
title: Have armed police numbers been cut? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-06-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There are about 700 fewer now than in 2010. Labour's claim accurately quotes the latest published Home Office figures, but newer figures from the National Police Chiefs' Council have changed the picture. The numbers are expected to return to 2010 levels over the next few years.


claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2016-09-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/how-do-selective-school-ratings-compare/
title: How do selective school ratings compare? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
80% of selective schools are rated as outstanding compared to 20% of all state schools. 99% of selective schools are rated good or outstanding.

textual_rating:
This is correct. 82% of selective schools were rated outstanding as of August 2016, compared to just over 20% of all state schools. 99% of selective schools received the top two ratings compared to 88% of all schools.


text: Mandatory vaccines became law from Wednesday 6 January 2021.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mandatory-vaccines-january-2021/
review_date: 2021-01-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
The laws introducing a third English lockdown do not make the Covid-19 vaccine mandatory - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is not true. Vaccines are not mandatory in the UK, and the changes to the law introducing a third lockdown in England on Wednesday don’t change that.


text: No vaccine has ever been proven safe.
claimant: Kate Shemirani
claim_date: 2023-02-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/kate-shemirani-childhood-vaccines/
title: Kate Shemirani makes several false claims about childhood vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
All vaccines used in the UK have been proven safe in stringent testing. We have decades of safety data for many common vaccines.


text: British old age pensioners who have worked for 45 years get a total yearly benefit of £6,000.
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/pensioners-or-refugees/
title: Who gets more, pensioners or refugees? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A British pensioner with 45 years’ worth of national insurance contributions is likely to earn at least £500 a year more than this, and be eligible for more benefits on top.


text: 1.7 million people in Britain today are unemployed.
claimant: Paul Nuttall
claim_date: 2016-12-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/immigration-unemployment-uk/
title: Immigration and unemployment in the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, as of July-September 2016. Although the figure hasn’t been adjusted to take into account the time of year, and by historic standards that’s a fairly low level of unemployment.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/state-pension-age-women-jobs-young-people/
review_date: 2020-08-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Lowering the state pension age for women back to 60 would create four million jobs for the younger generation.

title:
Lowering the state pension age for women won't create four million jobs for young people - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is not accurate. There is no evidence that four million women over the age of 60 are currently employed nor that they would all retire given the opportunity.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/farm-workers-coronavirus/
title: Some context for the claims that Romanian seasonal workers are taking UK workers’ jobs - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Romanian workers are being brought in to do seasonal British farm work, despite huge interest in these roles by British people.

textual_rating:
Farmers and produce companies say although there has been high interest and some roles are filled, experienced farmworkers are still needed to train and supervise new recruits and volunteers.


text: A photo shows King Charles, Jimmy Savile and the Dunblane massacre shooter.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-04-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/king-charles-jimmy-savile-not-pictured-dunblane-shooter/
title: Photo shared on social media doesn't show King Charles with Dunblane gunman - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The photo was taken three years after the massacre and shows King Charles, Jimmy Savile and a different man.


text: 48,000 illegal immigrants stay in hotels.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/veterans-asylum-seekers/
title: Figures for people seeking asylum in hotels and veterans sleeping rough are both wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is false. It uses a figure for people seeking asylum (not illegal immigrants) in accommodation, but they are not all in hotels. The number of people seeking asylum staying temporarily in “contingency accommodation”, which can include hotels, is closer to 1,000.


text: Free schools are being opened in areas that do not need them.
claimant: BBC Question Time Audience
claim_date: 2017-02-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/most-not-all-free-schools-help-meet-demand-school-places/
title: Most, but not all, free schools help meet demand for school places - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It depends what you mean by ‘need’. 83% of free schools since 2013 have been opened in areas that need extra school places, but free schools can also be opened with the intention of driving up standards. Across this parliament, the Department for Education expects about half of new places in mainstream free schools to create spare capacity in their local area.


claimant: Mail Online
claim_date: 2022-09-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/20-percent-brits-diy-dentistry/
title: Poll didn’t find 20% of Britons are resorting to ‘DIY dentistry’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
One in five Britons are resorting to 'DIY dentistry' due to a drought of NHS dental appointments, according to a recent poll.

textual_rating:
This isn’t true. The poll, carried out by the Liberal Democrats, found that approximately a quarter of respondents had failed to get an appointment with their local NHS dentist over the past year. Of those, 21% resorted to either attempting dentistry on themselves, or asked a friend or family member to do it for them.


text: 23% of people in Wales live in poverty
claimant: Leanne Wood
claim_date: 2017-03-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/poverty-wales/
title: Poverty in Wales - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct using the relative measure of poverty after housing costs, and absolute poverty after housing costs is similar, estimated at 22%.


text: The UK delivers 69% of the EU’s world trade surplus.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/is-the-uk-really-the-eus-treasure-island/
title: Is the UK really the EU’s ‘Treasure Island’? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct for trade in goods but does not include trade in services. It’s also a figure which could be misleading unless you understand exactly how it’s calculated.


text: The vaccines won’t stop me getting Covid-19.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-03-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Covid-QA-graphic/
title: Inaccurate Covid vaccine ‘Q&A’: fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
They most likely will. All the vaccines available are highly effective at preventing Covid-19 development.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/rainbows-for-nightingale-coronavirus/
title: NHS Nightingale does not want art in the post - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-04-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The new Nightingale Hospital in London wants people to post it home-made art to brighten up the walls.

textual_rating:
This is not true. The “Rainbows for Nightingale” appeal was not an official one. The hospital has confirmed this.


claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-06-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/have-concerns-been-raised-past-about-key-fire-safety-laws/
title: Have concerns been raised in the past about key fire safety laws? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-06-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Labour introduced the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order in 2005, which was criticised by the coroner’s report following the Lakanal House fire in 2009 criticised the order.

textual_rating:
Concerns about the Fire Safety Order (introduced by the Labour government in 2005) were raised by the inquest into the Lakanal House fire. It was concerned that people carrying out fire risk assessments weren’t necessarily qualified enough and about the scope of the new rules.


text: Test and Trace ran out of money.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-03-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/germany-test-trace-cost/
title: Claims about German Test and Trace costs completely wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. There is no evidence Test and Trace, which ran significantly under-budget in 2020/21, “ran out of money”.


text: The number of frontline prison officers has increased by 20% in the last year.
claimant: Michelle Donelan
claim_date: 2023-09-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/prison-officer-numbers/
title: Minister overstates increase in prison officer numbers - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. The Ministry of Justice says this figure refers to the increase in the headcount number of band 3-5 prison officers appointed in the year to June 2023 compared to the previous year. It doesn’t factor in leavers or other staff changes. The overall increase in the number of full-time equivalent band 3-5 officers was 3.2%.


text: The way to cure this is antibiotics, anti-inflammatories and anticoagulants.
claimant: Blog post
claim_date: 2020-06-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/italy-covid-5g/
title: Facebook post about Italy, coronavirus and 5G is almost all false - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Antibiotics do not directly treat Covid-19, which is caused by a virus. The anti-inflammatory ibuprofen is being trialled for use against Covid-19 and an anticoagulant has been used in some Covid-19 cases. Aspirin is not a specific cure.


claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2020-02-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/statins-obesity-study/
title: Daily Mirror incorrectly reports the results of statins and blood pressure drugs study. - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
82% of study participants who were prescribed statins or blood pressure pills were more likely to gain weight.

textual_rating:
This is incorrect. A study found that the risk of becoming obese increased by 82% among participants who were prescribed statins or blood pressure drugs, not that 82% risked becoming obese. This study does not prove that these drugs caused the weight gain.


text: A photo shows both President Zelenskyy of Ukraine and Adolf Hitler wearing the same symbol.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2023-05-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/zelenskyy-t-shirt-symbol-not-iron-cross-hitler/
title: President Zelenskyy is not wearing the same symbol worn by Hitler - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The two symbols are not the same. President Zelenskyy is wearing a t-shirt with the emblem of Ukraine’s armed forces. Hitler was wearing a military decoration called the iron cross.


text: 53 cyclists were killed in 2014 due to bad road conditions, up 77% since 2010.
claimant: Metro print edition
claim_date: 2016-02-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/how-many-cyclists-are-hurt-and-killed-poor-roads/
title: How many cyclists are hurt and killed on poor roads? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-02-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is wrong. The figures refer to the number of cyclists killed or seriously injured (KSI) in this kind of road accident.


text: Videos show a four legged monster climbing over buildings in Russia.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-09-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/video-monster-crawling-buildings/
title: Video of monster climbing buildings appears to be a hoax - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
One of the videos has previously been reported as a hoax, and was created by a graphic designer.

Nobody has publicly admitted to creating the other video from 2013.


text: Four million people are on the waiting list for NHS treatment.
claimant: Paul Mason
claim_date: 2017-01-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/four-million-hospital-waiting-lists/
title: Four million on hospital waiting lists - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct, although the figure refers to each referral rather than individual patients. Around 3.7 million referrals in England were waiting to receive non-emergency treatment as of November 2016. Including those hospital trusts that didn’t submit information, the NHS thinks that there may be 3.9 million on the waiting list.


text: A policeman’s salary is £30,901.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/paramedics-police-firefighter-salaries/
title: How much do firefighters, paramedics and police officers earn? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This does not match any of the pay points on the scale for police constable’s pay. Police constable salaries range from between £21,654 and £41,130.


text: The delays in cancer care waiting times are the longest since targets were first introduced.
claimant: Polly Toynbee
claim_date: 2017-03-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/cancer-care-waiting-times/
title: Cancer care waiting times - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There are a number of cancer care waiting times. Targets for the proportion of patients being treated within 62 days of being urgently referred by a GP are being missed. In January 2017 the proportion meeting the target was the lowest since targets were set in 2009. The rest of the targets were all hit.


text: The average family are now paying £1,500 more per year for nursery fees than in 2010.
claimant: Harriet Harman MP, then Leader of the Opposition
claim_date: 2015-05-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/are-childcare-costs-soaring/
title: Are childcare costs soaring? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-09-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The average price of part-time nursery for a child under the age of two has risen by this amount. Accounting for inflation, the figure is more like £890.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/un-soldiers-iraq-afghanistan-vaccine-camps/
title: UN soldiers are not forcing the unvaccinated into camps - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Male immigrants coming to the UK are UN soldiers who have signed the official secrets act in France and will be kicking the doors down of all unvaccinated people in the UK, taking them to camps to have the Covid-19 vaccine.

textual_rating:
There is absolutely no evidence this is the case. The UN military doesn’t do things like this and there is no mandate for vaccines in the UK.


text: The Westinghouse Springfield site produces nuclear fuel that generates 15% of UK electricity.
claimant: Mark Menzies MP
claim_date: 2017-01-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/21-uk-electricity-comes-nuclear/
title: 21% of UK electricity comes from nuclear - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s what the power company itself says. Overall, nuclear sources supply about 21% of the UK’s electricity.


text: You can't have the Pfizer vaccine if you're allergic to penicillin.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-01-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/penicillin-pfizer-vaccine/
title: Penicillin allergies don’t rule out Pfizer vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Official advice in the UK is that having penicillin allergies doesn’t rule out having any of the approved Covid-19 vaccines.


text: The Control of Diseases Act in the UK changed on 27 April.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/control-of-diseases-act-coronavirus/
review_date: 2020-05-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
The Control of Diseases Act was not changed in April to say you can be forcibly vaccinated - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 was not changed on this date. The last time the law was changed was 25 March when the Coronavirus Act meant a section, saying local authorities could not cremate a body against the wishes of the person, was removed temporarily. It’s possible this might happen under the new law, but it also says the person’s wishes must be taken into account as far as possible.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/australia-covid-vaccine-poison/
title: Australian government hasn’t admitted vaccines are a dangerous poison - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Australian government has removed documents describing the vaccines as a poison from their site as part of a cover-up.

textual_rating:
This is untrue. At the time of writing the documents referred to in the video were available in full on the government of Western Australia’s website.


text: There were 2,000 excess deaths in New Zealand while the vaccine was being rolled out.
claimant: Dr Guy Hatchard
claim_date: 2022-03-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/guy-hatchard-mark-steyn-gb-news/
title: GB News interview features misleading claims about Covid-19 and vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There were 34,932 deaths in New Zealand in 2021. This is around 2,200 higher than the five-year average from 2015 to 2019. There is no evidence the rise in deaths was caused by vaccines, and statisticians have attributed the rising death rate to the country’s ageing population.


text: The vaccines haven’t been subject to medium or long term safety testing on humans.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-03-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Covid-QA-graphic/
title: Inaccurate Covid vaccine ‘Q&A’: fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The vaccines have been tested on humans since mid-2020. If vaccines produce side effects, these are usually detectable in the short term.


claimant: Home Office
claim_date: 2022-03-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/ukraine-family-visa-scheme/
title: Home Office claim to have launched first Ukrainian visa scheme lacks context - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK Government’s Ukraine Family Scheme is the first visa scheme in the world to launch since President Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

textual_rating:
This appears to be accurate but lacks the context that many other countries taking refugees never required visas for Ukrainians, or have waived visa requirements.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/putin-russia-coronavirus-response/
review_date: 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia’s population to stay at home for 15 days or face five years in jail.

title:
Vladimir Putin did not say that all Russian people should stay at home or face five years in jail - Full Fact

textual_rating:
People in Russia arriving from high-risk areas must quarantine themselves for 14 days, and could face jail if they do not, but the general population has not yet been ordered to stay at home.


text: MPs can claim their petrol and diesel costs on their expenses.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-03-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/MPs-no-upper-limit-heating-expenses/
title: There is no upper limit for how much MPs can claim to cover heating costs - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
MPs can claim 45p per mile for the first 10,000 miles and 25p per mile thereafter for certain journeys taken by private car.


claimant: Daily Star
claim_date: 2018-07-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/wolf-whistling-about-become-illegal/
title: Is wolf whistling about to become illegal? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Men may be taken to court and face serious sentences if they whistle at a woman and she calls the police, if proposals to count misogyny as a hate crime go ahead.

textual_rating:
Even if rules do change on categorising hate crimes, wolf whistling in isolation would likely be classified as a hate incident, rather than crime, as it is not illegal. So wolf whistling alone is unlikely to result in prosecution.


text: The UK missed its interim renewable energy target.
claimant: Liz McInnes
claim_date: 2015-06-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/are-we-missing-our-targets-renewable-energy/
title: Are we missing our targets on renewable energy? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-10-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK's target was for 5.4% of its energy consumption to come from renewable sources over 2013 and 2014. Provisional calculations show it met this target.


text: Profit margins of the big six energy companies hit their highest ever level.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-09-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/energy-companies-profits-their-highest-level-ever/
title: Energy companies profits at their highest level ever? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-09-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s correct if you look at the average. It was 4.5% in 2016, up from 1% in 2009 when these figures were first published. Looking at individual companies there is a lot of variation though.


text: MPs receive expenses and an allowance for food and booze.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-11-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mp-doctors-nurses-midwives-paramedics-radiographers-salaries/
title: MPs cannot claim for alcohol from expenses - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
MPs cannot claim expenses for alcohol. MPs do receive expenses and can claim up to £25 for food and non-alcoholic drinks per night if they stay outside their constituency or London area. Catering on the parliamentary estate is also effectively subsidised, but is not solely for MPs.


text: Restricting in-work benefits to EU migrants would make a huge difference to EU migration.
claimant: Sir Stephen Nickell
claim_date: 2015-12-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/would-restricting-work-benefits-eu-migrants-reduce-immigration/
title: Would restricting in-work benefits to EU migrants reduce immigration? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-12-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is far from certain. There is no direct evidence that welfare is a prime pull factor for a significant number of EU migrants coming to the UK.


text: A “diaper give away event” is set to take place in Wigan on 10 August.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-07-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pampers-giveaway-wigan-facebook/
title: Wigan ‘diaper give away’ seems not to be genuine - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We could find no evidence that such an event is set to be held in Wigan. The link in the Facebook post shares no details of one, but asks for personal information instead. Both Pampers and Huggies say that the supposed event has nothing to do with them.


text: A three-page trade agreement under Article 24 would be “enough to avoid delays at borders”.
claimant: Iain Duncan Smith, David Campbell Bannerman, Martin Howe, Jon Moynihan, Rebecca Ryan
claim_date: 2019-08-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/gatt-24-again/
title: GATT 24: new argument, same old problems - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. This agreement would mean the UK and EU having different regulatory standards, and therefore checks on goods at the border.


text: You can’t leave your house unless to buy food, medicine or in an emergency.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/viral-list-uk-lockdown-rules-not-right/
title: Viral list of UK lockdown rules is not right - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not right. You can also leave to exercise, travel to work, take children to school or care for a vulnerable person.


claimant: UKIP Warwick and Leamington
claim_date: 2019-10-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/flu-shot-ingredients/
title: Image on flu jab ingredients is misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The flu jab contains formaldehyde, which is a human carcinogen and has been known to cause infertility and hormone imbalance.

textual_rating:
Traces of formaldehyde may be in some flu vaccines if it’s used in the manufacturing process. But there’s not enough for it to be carcinogenic or affect fertility—studies linking these things look at people who handle it regularly as part of their jobs.


text: Tommy Robinson was prosecuted for causing distress to defendants in a grooming trial.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/tommy-robinson-was-not-prosecuted-causing-distress-men-trial-grooming/
title: Tommy Robinson was not prosecuted for causing distress to men on trial for grooming - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Mr Robinson was prosecuted and found guilty of contempt of court for breaking a reporting ban.


text: There were no cases of malaria spread by mosquitoes between 2003 and 2023.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2023-06-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/bill-gates-mosquitoes-malaria/
title: Bill Gates-funded company did not cause malaria cases in Florida - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Five cases of locally acquired mosquito borne malaria cases have recently been identified in Texas and Florida. The CDC says this hasn’t happened in the US since 2003.


text: They’re removing the reversing element from HGV tests to make them easier to pass.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2021-09-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/hgv-reversing-test/
title: Reversing is not being removed from HGV driving tests - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The reversing part of certain medium and large vehicle tests will be assessed by an authorised third party instead of a DVSA examiner.


text: David Davis said last month that people overstaying their visa is the biggest problem the UK has.
claimant: Michael Russell
claim_date: 2017-01-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/how-many-people-overstay-visas/
title: How many people overstay their visas? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We don’t know which comments by Mr Davis are being referred to. But this generally reflects the views of researchers that most people who live illegally in the UK have expired visas rather than because they snuck in illegally in the first place.


text: 1,800 more patients are seen within the four hour A&E standard every single day compared to 2010.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-11-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/a-e-waiting-times-getting-longer/
title: A&E waiting times: are they getting longer? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-11-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, comparing attendances in 2009/10 with 2016/17. More people are also waiting more than four hours. As a proportion of all attendances fewer patients are seen within four hours.


text: You need to be 18 to get married on your own.
claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2018-03-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/what-rights-do-you-get-18/
title: What rights do you get at 18? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-03-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct for England and Wales. You can get married or enter a civil partnership at 16 and 17 but you still need parental consent.


text: Approximately 15% of people will pay back their entire student loan.
claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2018-02-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/about-17-students-are-forecast-fully-pay-back-their-loans/
title: About 17% of students are forecast to fully pay back their loans - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-02-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct according to forecasts. Estimates from the Institute for Fiscal Studies in October last year show about 17% of graduates are forecast to fully repay their loans.


claimant: Guido Fawkes
claim_date: 2020-07-28T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2020-08-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The British public believe that 7% of the UK population has died from Coronavirus, a number 100 times higher than the recorded-death reality.

url:
https://fullfact.org/health/why-poll-gives-misleading-view-how-many-people-public-think-covid-19-has-killed/

title:
Why this poll gives a misleading view on how many people the public think Covid-19 has killed - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This uses a mean average which isn’t appropriate in this context. Using the median, the average Brit thought that 1% of the GB population had died of Covid-19.


text: 66% think Theresa May is aiming for a Brexit that is too "soft".
claimant: Leave.EU
claim_date: 2018-07-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/these-poll-figures-are-leave-voters-not-most-nation/
title: These poll figures are for leave voters - not "most of the nation" - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That's of adults in Great Britain voting 'Leave' in the 2016 referendum, according to one survey. Among all adults in Great Britain, it's 40%.


text: Young people are finding it harder than ever to own their own home.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2016-07-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/its-harder-young-people-own-their-own-home/
title: It's harder for young people to own their own home - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-08-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. Young people are less likely to own their own home, and the gap in affordability has grown since a decade ago.


text: The mayor of Calgary said that Covid-19 was a hoax.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-08-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/false-calgary-transcript/
title: The mayor of Calgary didn't say that Covid-19 was a hoax - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
No, he didn’t. This seems to come from a fake transcript of a nonexistent court hearing. The mayor of Calgary says it never happened.


claimant: Nick Clegg
claim_date: 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/brexit-uk-economy-growing-or-slowing/
title: Brexit: is the UK economy growing or slowing? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-06-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In three months we fell from being the fastest growing economy in the G7 to the slowest growing in the group.

textual_rating:
The UK was the fastest growing economy in the G7 in the last three months of 2016. It dropped to one of the three slowest in the first three months of this year, sitting alongside Italy and the USA at the bottom of the pile.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-10-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/viral-image-boris-johnsons-brexit-deal/
title: We fact checked this viral image on Boris Johnson's Brexit deal - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Under the new withdrawal agreement, Northern Ireland is effectively annexed by the EU with border in the Irish sea between NI and the UK.

textual_rating:
There will be checks on goods crossing from the rest of the UK into Northern Ireland, but Northern Ireland will remain part of the UK’s customs territory. What you deem to be annexing is really a matter of interpretation.


text: You cannot catch Covid-19 person to person or touching surfaces.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-19-spreads/
title: Almost all of these claims about viruses are wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is incorrect. There’s evidence that Covid-19 and other coronaviruses, like the common cold and SARS, spread in these ways.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/starmer-muslim-grooming-prosecution-crime/
title: No evidence Keir Starmer tried to block the prosecution of Muslim grooming gangs - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In 2004, as director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer told police not to prosecute “Muslim rape gangs” to prevent Islamophobia.

textual_rating:
Keir Starmer became head of the Crown Prosecution Service in 2008. Although he later admitted that victims of grooming gangs had faced a “lack of understanding” during his time in charge, we can find no evidence he tried to block prosecutions due to concerns over Islamophobia.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2019-02-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/muslims-arent-exempt-from-council-tax/
title: You can’t be exempt from council tax if your home is used as a place of worship - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Muslims who use living areas within their homes as a place of worship are exempt from paying council tax. This doesn’t apply to other religions.

textual_rating:
This is not correct, they wouldn’t be exempt from council tax. Places of worship for all religions can be exempt from business rates, but only if they’re officially recognised as such. The principal use of the site has to be worship.


text: 39 people were murdered in one day in England.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-08-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/non-covid-deaths/
title: These figures for non-Covid deaths aren’t accurate - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is likely untrue. We could find no evidence of a recent mass homicide, and on average two people die of homicide each day in England.


text: The people trying to cross the Channel from France to the UK are not refugees.
claimant: Suzanne Evans
claim_date: 2019-01-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/refugees-first-safe-country/
title: Do refugees have to stay in the first safe country they reach? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This cannot be known. It will be determined by immigration officials who review their asylum applications.


text: Deaths in care homes are up 81% since the start of the Covid-19 vaccination rollout.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-02-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/care-home-deaths-2021/
title: Covid vaccine hasn't caused increase in care home deaths - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Deaths in care homes are up about that much since before the vaccination rollout, although we haven’t been able to replicate the 81% figure exactly.

These are not deaths due to the vaccine. They are largely due to Covid-19 itself and reporting delays.


text: Sir Anthony Hopkins is the author of a short essay on personal relationships.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-02-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/anthony-hopkins-essay/
title: No evidence Sir Anthony Hopkins penned essay about personal relationships - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence for this. Similar words predating the first instance of the essay being attributed to Sir Anthony have been attributed to another author.


text: Monkeypox is only circulating in countries where the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine has been distributed.
claimant: The Expose
claim_date: 2022-07-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/monkeypox-pfizer-vaccine-countries/
title: No evidence Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine is causing monkeypox - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
More than 3.6 billion doses of the Pfizer vaccine have been distributed to 180 of the 195 countries in the world. The majority of these have yet to report a monkeypox case.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-03-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/waitrose-fake-post/
title: Waitrose is not offering anyone who shares a Facebook post free food - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-23T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The page claiming this is not affiliated with Waitrose and there is no prize.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Waitrose is giving away boxes of food that’s about to expire and to win you must share and comment on the post.


claimant: GB News
claim_date: 2022-01-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/gb-news-surgeon-covid-vaccines/
title: A surgeon made several incorrect claims about Covid-19 vaccine on GB News - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An Israeli study showed that vaccinated people were 27 times more likely to catch Covid-19 than unvaccinated people.

textual_rating:
This is very misleading. The study compared vaccinated people with unvaccinated people who had been previously infected. It did not show that vaccinated people were more likely to catch Covid-19 than unvaccinated people in general.


text: The EU wants to force the UK to take a share of refugees.
claimant: The Express
claim_date: 2015-09-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/uk-cant-be-forced-accept-more-refugees/
title: The UK can't be forced to accept more refugees - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-09-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Unlike most other EU member states there would be no legal requirement for the UK to take a "quota" of refugees if such a scheme were passed.


text: Childcare costs in England have risen up to seven times faster than wages.
claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2017-10-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/have-childcare-costs-risen-seven-times-faster-wages/
title: Have childcare costs risen up to seven times faster than wages? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-11-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is roughly the case for parents of children under two in London from 2008 to 2016, according to research by the TUC. The exact changes are unclear. In England overall it is three to four times faster.


claimant: Vernon Coleman
claim_date: 2021-07-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Vernon-Coleman-Trafalgar-Square-conspiracy-claims-false/
title: Trafalgar Square “Freedom Rally” speech littered with false claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government knew Covid-19 was no more dangerous than flu before lockdown and flu and Covid-19 are the same thing

textual_rating:
This is based on a misunderstanding of the declassification of Covid-19 from a government list of high consequence infectious diseases. It does not mean Covid-19 is not dangerous. Covid-19 is not the same as flu.


claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2019-10-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/labour-conservative-police-recruitment/
title: Don’t compare Labour and Conservative costings for police recruitment - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-31T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct. This covers police salaries as well as any costs associated with recruitment and training.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Conservatives plan to take on 6,000 more police officers in 12 months at a cost of £750 million.


claimant: UKIP Warwick and Leamington
claim_date: 2019-10-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/flu-shot-ingredients/
title: Image on flu jab ingredients is misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The flu jab contains thimerosal, which may have neurological effects, cause developmental deficits and has been known to cause seizures.

textual_rating:
No current UK flu jabs contain thimerosal (known as thiomersal in the UK). It was removed from most UK jabs as a precaution, and doesn’t seem to build up in the human body and cause issues.


text: The founder of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab is related to the Rothschild family.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2022-01-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/klaus-schwab-rothschild-false/
title: Klaus Schwab is not related to the Rothschild family - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The post suggests Mr Schwab is related to a woman whose surname before marriage was Rothschild but is not directly related to the House of Rothschild. Mr Schwab has said they are not related.


claimant: Instagram account
claim_date: 2022-06-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Serbian-football-clip/
title: Football clip doesn’t show on-loan player scoring to relegate parent club - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video shows a footballer relegating their parent club by scoring a goal for the team they were sent on loan to.

textual_rating:
The clip actually shows a player ignoring attempts to stop the game for an injured player. Neither team was relegated as a result of the match, and the goalscorer was not on loan.


text: Grant Shapps ordered Sadiq Khan to extend ULEZ.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-07-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ulez-expansion-letter/
review_date: 2023-08-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Government funding agreement did not force Sadiq Khan to extend ULEZ to cover all of Greater London - Full Fact

textual_rating:
While a funding agreement between the government and Transport for London in 2020 did state that proposals to expand ULEZ should be brought forward, the Department for Transport says this referred to existing plans to extend the boundary as far as the North and South Circular Roads, not the expansion across all of Greater London which is set to take place later this month.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-08-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/keir-starmer-court-illegal-immigrants/
title: Keir Starmer 2003 court case is not the reason asylum seekers get support - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The outcome of the 2003 case means that today illegal immigrants are housed in hotels and given benefits.

textual_rating:
The case was about whether or not asylum seekers who didn't claim asylum as soon as they entered the UK would be allowed support from the government in the form of accommodation or financial help—but not access to welfare benefits. Illegal immigrants and asylum seekers are not able to apply for Universal Credit. Asylum seekers were housed in hotels and received financial support before 2003.


text: The UK has nine out of the 10 poorest regions in northern Europe.
claimant: George Eaton
claim_date: 2018-06-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/does-uk-have-poorest-regions-northern-europe/
title: Does the UK have the poorest regions in northern Europe? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect, this is out of date. In 2016, the UK had six of the 10 regions with the lowest GDP per person, from a group of nearby countries. This isn’t a good measure of how rich or poor people in those regions are.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-02-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/photo-of-wounded-ukrainian-woman-near-kharkiv-is-genuine/
title: Photo of wounded Ukrainian woman near Kharkiv is genuine - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Widely-used images of a Ukrainian woman wounded following an airstrike near Kharkiv actually depict events from 2018.

textual_rating:
This is false, the photographs are genuine and were taken at the outset of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.


text: Wuhan is where 5G was rolled out first.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/wuhan-5g-coronavirus/
title: The Wuhan coronavirus has nothing to do with 5G - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Wuhan was one of the first places with 5G trials, as well as several other large Chinese cities, like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou but we don’t know if it was the first.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/tanks-paris-were-almost-certainly-there-bastille-day/
title: Tanks in Paris were almost certainly there for Bastille Day - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Tanks were seen in Paris’ Champs Élysées, around the same time as protests against France’s introduction of vaccine or immunity certification.

textual_rating:
The photo was almost certainly taken on Bastille Day, a national French holiday, on which military vehicles parade the Champs Élysées. The same vehicles were seen in news reports and on social media.


claimant: Lisa Nandy
claim_date: 2016-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/how-much-our-energy-comes-wind-mps-disagree/
title: How much of our energy comes from wind? MPs disagree - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-01-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: That's right.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
At the time of the Energy Bill’s second reading debate, 1% of the UK’s electricity was being generated by wind.


claimant: The Sunday Times
claim_date: 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/has-number-murders-london-overtaken-new-york/
title: Has the number of murders in London overtaken New York? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The total number of murders in London, even excluding victims of terrorism, has risen by 38% since 2014.

textual_rating:
Mostly correct. The number of homicides (not just murders) increased from 84 in 2014 to 116 in 2017. Over a longer period, the number of homicides in London has remained at around 100 per year.


text: No country had a functioning contact-tracing app in June 2020.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-06-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/dawn-butler-boris-johnson-lying/
title: Was Dawn Butler right about Boris Johnson ‘lying’ to Parliament? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Several countries had operational contact-tracing apps that had been downloaded millions of times. In June 2020, it wasn’t clear how effective any of them were in reducing the spread of Covid-19.


text: Violent assaults on police officers have risen by a third in just four years.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2019-08-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/assaults-on-police-officers/
title: Are assaults on police officers rising? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The way data is collected was changed in 2017, so it isn’t possible to compare current rates with what they were four years ago. But assaults on officers that resulted in injuries rose by 27% in 2018/19 compared to 2017/18.


text: Viruses are dead material expelled from healing cells.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-19-spreads/
title: Almost all of these claims about viruses are wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s not clear what this claim means, but there is debate about whether or not viruses are technically alive. When viruses leave host cells after replicating in them, the cells can’t really be said to have healed.


text: 90% of people in ICU with Covid-19 have not been vaccinated.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2022-01-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/boris-johnson-90percent-icu/
title: Boris Johnson misspoke about unvaccinated people in ICU - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not supported by the latest evidence, which shows that 61% of admissions in the first half of December 2021 were unvaccinated people. Around 90% had not received a booster dose.


text: Recovering the costs of health tourism won’t plug the funding gap the NHS is facing.
claimant: Maajid Nawaz
claim_date: 2017-02-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/health-tourism-savings-wont-plug-hole-nhs-funding/
title: Health tourism savings won't plug the hole in NHS funding - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. These costs are relatively small compared to the amounts the NHS will need to find to maintain current services.


text: Lockdowns will end when healthy people stop getting tested.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-10-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/stop-getting-tested-false-positive/
title: This post telling healthy people to stop getting tested is full of inaccuracies - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
People not getting tested will not stop lockdowns from happening. The number of tests, positive cases and things like test positivity are all used to measure the outbreak. A lack of testing might lead to an extended pandemic.


text: A video shows a police officer being egged by children in Kent.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-08-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/police-egging-video-false/
title: Video of police officer egged by children is a prank - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not an assault of a real police officer. Kent police have no record of an assault. The video was shared by a prank account.


text: Four volunteers developed Bell's palsy after receiving Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-12-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/bells-palsy-vaccine-trial/
review_date: 2020-12-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Some on the Pfizer vaccine trials did get Bell’s palsy, but not more than we’d expect by chance - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is true, but that’s about how many people in a group the size of the trial would be expected to develop it in that period of time. There’s no evidence it’s linked to the vaccine.


claimant: Paul Nuttall
claim_date: 2016-12-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/immigration-unemployment-uk/
title: Immigration and unemployment in the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The number of people who came to live in this country last year was the same as the population of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

textual_rating:
Not far off, assuming the claim is referring to net migration. The best estimate is that about 335,000 more people came to live in UK than left in the year leading up to June 2016. Only 293,000 people live in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.


text: A photo of dozens of lightning strikes was taken recently in Caldbeck, the Lake District.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-lightning-picture-caldbeck/
review_date: 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The picture was taken in 2011 on the Greek Island of Ikaria.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Claims that a 2011 lightning composite picture were taken in the Lake District are false - Full Fact


text: Youth unemployment is lower than many comparable economies.
claimant: Damian Green
claim_date: 2017-07-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/historically-low-youth-unemployment/
title: Is youth unemployment at a historic low? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-07-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Youth unemployment in the UK is lower than the OECD average. The UK has the 9th lowest rate out of G20 countries, and 4th out of countries in the G7.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/yellow-card-fake-website/
title: Screenshot of website about Covid-19 vaccine side effects is fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A Facebook post shows a screengrab from a government website with a list of reported deaths and side effects caused by the Covid-19 vaccines.

textual_rating:
The image in this post is mocked-up and does not actually appear on the site, though it uses figures which do appear there.


text: EU rules mean we cannot take VAT off energy bills.
claimant: Michael Gove, Boris Johnson and Gisela Stuart
claim_date: 2016-05-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/what-could-happen-vat-and-energy-prices-if-we-leave-eu/
title: What could happen to VAT and energy prices if we leave the EU? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s right. EU rules mean we cannot reduce VAT on household energy any lower than the 5% that’s currently charged. All EU member countries would have to agree any changes to these rules.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2020-05-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/journalism-mood-bots/
title: It seems unlikely the accounts resharing a viral post about the UK press are bots - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: We cannot find evidence for this.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Accounts on Twitter resharing a post about journalism failing to capture the mood of the country is a coordinated bot effort.


text: 190,000 Muslim women, or 22%, speak little or no English.
claimant: David Cameron
claim_date: 2016-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/22-muslim-women-say-they-dont-speak-english-or-dont-speak-it-well/
title: 22% of Muslim women say they don’t speak English or don’t speak it well - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-01-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is based on census data from 2011. 22% of Muslim women said they speak English "not well" or "not at all". For Muslim men the equivalent figure was 10%.


claimant: Gina Miller
claim_date: 2017-06-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/northern-ireland-and-barnett-formula/
title: Northern Ireland and the Barnett formula - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-06-23T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: It will depend on political negotiations. The Barnett formula isn’t set out in law.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If more money is spent in Northern Ireland then the Barnett formula means Scotland and Wales will also receive more.


text: A report this week found 120,000 unnecessary deaths are happening every year because of austerity.
claimant: Val McDermid
claim_date: 2017-11-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/austerity-120000-unnecessary-deaths/
title: Is austerity linked to 120,000 unnecessary deaths? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-11-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
An academic paper has estimated there were around 120,000 more deaths in total between 2010 and 2017 than there would have been had the mortality rate between 2001 and 2010 continued. Restrictions on health and social care spending is one of a number of possible explanations for this, and the findings need to be treated with a bit of caution.


text: Income tax and tax on whisky go to England to be spent on English priorities.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-09-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/scotland-finances-whisky-tax/
title: Scottish taxes don’t subsidise English spending - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Most income tax is kept by the Scottish government. Tax on whisky and other taxes go to the UK Treasury but when money is spent on England-only policy areas, the Scottish government receives money back.


claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-03-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/cycle-threshold-values/
title: What’s a PCR test cycle threshold and why it matters - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The World Health Organisation confirmed that the PCR test is flawed and all tests with a high cycle threshold (Ct) are invalid.

textual_rating:
False. It reiterated guidance that tests with a high Ct may need to be retested. There are lots of different reasons for high Ct value results. Interpreting them requires clinical context.


text: Universal Credit will mean 200,000 more people will be in work when it’s fully rolled-out.
claimant: Question Time
claim_date: 2018-10-11T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2018-10-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/economy/200000-more-people-work-under-universal-credit-government-cant-know-answer/

title:
200,000 more people in work under Universal Credit? The government can’t know the answer - Full Fact

textual_rating:
That’s according to the government’s own estimate, but it’s subject to significant doubt. It’s also currently unprovable: the National Audit Office says “the Department will never be able to measure whether Universal Credit actually leads to 200,000 more people in work”.


text: You and your family members can be detained.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/control-of-diseases-act-coronavirus/
review_date: 2020-05-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
The Control of Diseases Act was not changed in April to say you can be forcibly vaccinated - Full Fact

textual_rating:
You can be isolated if it’s suspected you have an infectious disease, and your family members, if it’s suspected you’ve infected them, can also be subjected to these measures.


text: It was this Conservative government that tackled the deficit.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2019-10-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/boris-johnson-debt-quote/
title: This quote attributed to Boris Johnson is not real - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The deficit (how much the government borrows each year) fell from £158 billion (or 10% of GDP) in 2009/10 to £41 billion (2% of GDP) in 2018/19.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/young-people-severe-coronavirus-cork/
review_date: 2020-03-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There are four young people with no underlying illnesses in an intensive care unit in Cork due to Covid-19, who had all been taking anti-inflammatory drugs.

title:
That ‘medical alert’ about severe Covid-19 cases in Cork due to anti-inflammatories is fake - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is not true. It has been denied by the clinical lead of Ireland’s public health service and the whole message branded ‘misinformation’.


text: A man called Martin Jones, who has dementia and is 79, has been reported missing in Grimsby.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-man-grimsby-caravan/
title: Man pictured with caravan has not gone missing in Grimsby - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is false. Humberside Police have not issued a missing persons appeal for this man, and the picture used in the post has previously been used on social media to claim that a caravan has been stolen.


text: The Scottish government’s budget has been cut dramatically since 2010/11.
claimant: BBC Question Time Audience
claim_date: 2017-02-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/scotland/has-scottish-government-budget-increased-or-decreased-2010/
title: Has the Scottish Government budget increased or decreased since 2010? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It fell on any measure between 2010-11 and 2013-14. Since then it’s either flatlined, risen slightly, or returned to roughly the same value—it depends on what you include.


claimant: Danny Kruger
claim_date: 2022-10-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/vaccine-safety-westminster-debate/
title: MPs' vaccine debate fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The claim that the vaccine was 95% vaccine effective is misleading as it only refers to relative risk. The absolute risk reduction is less than 1%.

textual_rating:
This is missing the context that relative risk reduction and absolute risk reduction measure two different things. Relative risk reduction is most commonly used to communicate vaccine effectiveness as the way in which it is calculated means it is relevant no matter how prevalent Covid-19 is in the community. Absolute risk reduction is very sensitive to the prevalence of the virus, therefore the measure determined during the trials is not necessarily relevant to real-world situations.


text: The same child was reported to have died in three different countries from Covid-19.
claimant: Twitter account
claim_date: 2022-10-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vitor-godinho-covid-19/
title: News articles didn’t claim the same boy died of Covid-19 in three different countries - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The child in the image was reported to have sadly died of Covid-19 in Portugal in 2020. However, the two other news articles reported on the deaths of two other children.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-01-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Sids-vaccines/
title: No evidence for drop in US sudden infant death syndrome cases - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There was a decrease in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in the USA in 2020 as a result of scheduled vaccinations being cancelled.

textual_rating:
There was a decrease in reports of SIDS to the US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System but these represent a tiny proportion of SIDS cases. There’s no evidence childhood vaccinations are linked to SIDS.


text: Italy has become the first country in the world to conduct a post-mortem on a Covid-19 patient.
claimant: Blog post
claim_date: 2020-06-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/italy-covid-5g/
title: Facebook post about Italy, coronavirus and 5G is almost all false - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. China performed autopsies on Covid-19 patients before Italy had its first Covid-19 death.


text: Facebook users could win a pictured cabin if they comment on and share a post.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/facebook-cabin-giveaway-fake/
title: Thousands share fake Facebook cabin giveaway - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not a genuine giveaway. The cabin in the picture is in Arizona, US, and the agents selling the property have confirmed that it is not involved in any Facebook competition and that they have no affiliation with the page promoting it.


text: Adult education has been cut by 35% during David Cameron’s time as Prime Minister.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2016-03-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/adult-skills-funding-what-happened-last-parliament/
title: Adult skills funding: what happened in the last Parliament? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-03-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Analysis by membership body the Association of Colleges has shown that spending on core adult skills for those aged 19 and over fell by 35% between 2009/10 and 2015/16. The cut was about 41% once inflation is accounted for.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/Grenfell-Tower-Labour/
title: Most of these claims about Grenfell Tower are wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The cladding used on Grenfell Tower was chosen by Ed Miliband to meet EU climate change legislation.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. Ed Miliband did not choose the cladding on Grenfell Tower. There is no evidence we’re aware of that environmental legislation was behind the choice of cladding material.


text: A Facebook user is trying to reunite a recently injured cat with its owner.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-01-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/injured-cat/
title: Cat injured in Middlesbrough is really a viral 2018 picture from California - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. The photograph of the cat in the post is more than four years old and was taken in California.


text: Vaccines contain the SV40 virus.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-02-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccine-grave-picture/
title: There are no mouse brains in Covid-19 vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There was some concern in the 1960s that some viruses were contaminated with SV40. No vaccine has been found to contain it since 1963, and there’s no evidence it caused cancer as some claimed.


claimant: Twitter account
claim_date: 2022-09-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Irish-dancers-Buckingham-Palace/
title: Irish dancers video outside Buckingham Palace filmed months before Queen’s death - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The video was filmed and first shared several months before the death of the Queen.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Irish dancers performed to Queen’s “Another One Bites The Dust” outside Buckingham Palace, shortly after the Queen’s death.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/extinction-rebellion-sticker-coronavirus/
title: Anyone can make an Extinction Rebellion sticker - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Extinction Rebellion says they are not affiliated with the Twitter account.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A branch of Extinction Rebellion tweeted in support of a flyer saying “Corona is the cure. Humans are the disease.”.


text: Theresa May has been claiming between £400 and £520 per month for ‘cleaning’ at her home.
url: https://fullfact.org/news/parliamentary-expenses-meme-theresa-may-correct/
title: Parliamentary expenses: is this meme about Theresa May correct? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-11-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These sums were claimed back in April-October 2006 and July 2006 to March 2007. They covered the whole period rather than being monthly.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/muslims-in-the-uk/
title: ‘Facts’ in a graphic about UK Muslims are mostly wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The mayors of London, Birmingham, Leeds, Blackburn, Sheffield, Oxford, Luton, Oldham and Rochdale are Muslim.

textual_rating:
All have had Muslim mayors at various points in the past, but at the moment only some of the mayors of these places are Muslim.


claimant: TUC
claim_date: 2019-07-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/has-gig-economy-doubled/
title: Has the gig economy doubled in size in three years? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: There isn’t enough evidence to say this.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The rise in “platform work” shows that UK workers are increasingly likely to patch together a living from multiple different sources.


text: 85% of people who test positive for Covid wore masks always or often.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-03-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/viral-video-contains-several-false-pandemic-claims/
title: Viral video contains several false pandemic claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This comes from a study that found a slightly higher proportion of people who tested negative wore masks, and were less likely to visit restaurants, where mask wearing is difficult.


text: A man who assaulted his wife was spared jail because the judge didn’t consider her “vulnerable”.
claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2017-03-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/domestic-violence-vulnerable-mustafa-bashir/
title: When are domestic violence victims not “vulnerable”? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-04-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The judge did mention that he didn’t consider the victim to be “particularly” vulnerable. Official sentencing guidelines required him to look into that as a possible aggravating factor in setting the length of the attacker’s sentence. It wasn’t relevant to his separate decision to suspend the sentence.


text: There are now more nurses from the European Union going home than coming to the UK.
claimant: Howard Davies
claim_date: 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/eu-nurses/
title: Where have all the (EU) nurses gone? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-01-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In the year to September 2017 the number of nurses from the EU leaving the NHS in England outweighed those joining it for the first time in at least five years. We don’t know if they left the UK or what jobs they went on to do.


text: Finland is going to have a four-day working week and six-hour days.
claimant: ITV News
claim_date: 2020-01-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/finland-four-day-week/
title: Finland is not going to have a four-day working week. - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not Finnish government policy. The Finnish Prime Minister did suggest the idea on a panel in 2019 while she was Minister for Transport.


claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2023-02-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/scotland/express-scotland-deficit/
title: Daily Express claim on Scotland’s ‘deficit’ needs context - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Scotland’s government under Nicola Sturgeon ran up one of the largest budget deficits in the developed world.

textual_rating:
This is technically true, but missing context. The Scottish Government essentially just spends what it receives. Scotland as a whole has a fiscal deficit largely due to decisions by the UK Government.


text: Tax payers pay £500,000 to train a doctor.
claimant: Nadine Dorries
claim_date: 2023-06-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nadine-dorries-doctor-training-cost-australia-new-zealand/
title: It does not cost the public £500,000 to train a doctor - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. While it may cost roughly this much to train a senior doctor, the cost to train someone until they become a junior doctor is much less.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/pcr-test-mullis/
title: The inventor of PCR never said it wasn’t designed to detect infectious diseases - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Kary B Mullis invented the PCR test that’s being used as the Covid-19 test. He died suddenly in August 2019.

textual_rating:
He did invent PCR, which is a process used to test whether someone currently has Covid-19. He did die in August 2019.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-03-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ukrainian-council-tax-discount/
review_date: 2022-04-08T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: There’s no evidence this happened and councils can’t do this.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An elderly man was told by Enfield council that his single occupier council tax discount could be removed if he didn’t house a Ukrainian family in his spare room.

title:
Single occupancy council tax discount can’t be revoked if you don’t take in Ukrainian refugees - Full Fact


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2023-06-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/bill-gates-mosquitoes-malaria/
title: Bill Gates-funded company did not cause malaria cases in Florida - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A company founded by Bill Gates released mosquitoes and in those exact places there were subsequent outbreaks of malaria.

textual_rating:
Oxitec (which has received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) released their genetically modified mosquitoes (which aim to reduce local populations of the pest) in Florida, not Texas (where locally acquired malaria cases have been identified). The species released is not the one that spreads malaria, but other diseases like dengue, yellow fever and zika.


text: Poor British adults are less healthy than they were a generation before.
claimant: Mail Online
claim_date: 2020-01-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/self-reported-health-inequalities/
title: The poorest in UK are living longer, but it seems they feel worse - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This comes from research on how people feel about their health, which is not necessarily the same as how healthy they are. Life expectancy in low income households has risen, which suggests  that their general health may not be worse.


claimant: Instagram account
claim_date: 2022-05-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/ukraine-supply-shortages/
title: War in Ukraine has contributed to global shortages of certain products - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Worldwide shortages of oil, gas, paper, milk, grain and other raw materials are not because of Ukraine.

textual_rating:
The war in Ukraine and sanctions introduced on Russia as a result of its invasion have disrupted the supply of various products, though it is not the only cause of supply issues.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-02-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/letter-mhra-filled-false-covid-19-claims/
title: Letter to MHRA is filled with false Covid-19 claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
People who die within 28 days of a positive Covid-19 test have Covid put on their death certificate automatically.

textual_rating:
False. Medical professionals filling out death certificates are not required to note a Covid-19 test result if they don’t think it was relevant to the cause of death.


text: Self-harming by teenage girls has doubled in the last 20 years.
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2018-08-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/has-number-teenage-girls-self-harming-doubled/
title: Has the number of teenage girls self-harming doubled? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The number of hospital admissions in England for girls under the age of 18 because of self-harm has doubled in that time. We don’t know how much of that is down to improved recording or to an actual increase in self-harm.


claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2016-10-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-trusts-deficit/
title: NHS trusts in deficit - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: 75% of acute hospitals are in deficit, according to the latest figures.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
NHS Trusts are in the worst financial crisis of their history, according to NHS Providers, with 80% of acute hospitals in deficit, although the NHS was in surplus in 2010.


claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2020-01-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/vision-loss-delays/
title: Up to 260 UK patients per year experience vision loss because of healthcare delays - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Each month 22 NHS patients with glaucoma unnecessarily lose their sight due to NHS treatment delays.

textual_rating:
Researchers estimate up to 22 patients per month in the UK experience vision deterioration due to health service delays, but not all from glaucoma.


text: The number of people waiting more than four hours in A&E has gone up by 557% since 2010.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-11-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/a-e-waiting-times-getting-longer/
title: A&E waiting times: are they getting longer? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-11-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s not quite correct.  The number of attendances where patients waited more than four hours in A&E has gone up 334% since 2010. The 557% is referring to patients with an admission approved who are waiting to be admitted.


text: The government voted to allow water companies to pump sewage into rivers.
claimant: Mail Online
claim_date: 2021-10-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/environment/murky-claims-about-sewage-bill-fact-checked/
title: Murky claims about sewage bill fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The amendment rejected by the government would have also allowed the pumping of sewage into rivers, but required it to be progressively reduced.


text: A photograph of a man queueing shows Boris Johnson waiting to attend the Queen’s lying-in-state.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-09-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-queue-queen/
title: Picture doesn’t show Boris Johnson queueing for the Queen’s lying-in-state - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The photograph appears to originate on Twitter, where the person who shared it says the man in the picture is not Boris Johnson.


text: Parents should never try to bring a child’s fever down as it is a natural response to infections.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/strep-a-scarlet-fever-antibiotics-homeopathy/
title: Facebook post makes harmful claims about treating scarlet fever without antibiotics - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It is correct to state that fever is part of the body's immune response, but the claim that high temperatures should never be treated goes against medical advice.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-04-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ukraine-upturned-cars-bucha/
title: Overturned cars in Ukraine were likely flipped by Russian forces, not explosion - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photo from Ukraine shows several cars have been flipped over by the explosion of a Russian bomb, yet the building behind them looks completely undamaged, which is inconsistent with an explosion.

textual_rating:
These cars were probably not flipped over by an explosion. Eyewitnesses report that Russian forces overturned cars with tanks.


text: 800,000 of the "2 million jobs created" are zero hour contracts.
claimant: John McDonnell
claim_date: 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/food-banks-zero-hours-contracts-and-falling-wages-are-we-worse/
title: Food banks, zero hours contracts and falling wages: are we worse off? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-09-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We have no way of knowing how much of the increase in employment (the "2 million jobs") over last Parliament came from zero hour contracts.


text: 10,000 EU staff have left the NHS because they don’t feel they are needed or wanted any more.
claimant: Vince Cable
claim_date: 2017-09-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-staff-eu-one-year-referendum/
title: NHS staff from the EU: one year on from the referendum - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-09-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
10,000 EU staff did leave the NHS in the year following the referendum vote (excluding those working in GP surgeries), but we don’t have information about why any of these staff left. This continues a rising trend in the last few years.


claimant: Greg Clark
claim_date: 2017-11-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/council-houses-labour/
title: Have more council houses been built in the last seven years than under Labour? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-11-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There are more council houses that have been built in the last seven years than under the last Labour government.

textual_rating:
This claim is technically correct, but it ignores the major role of housing associations in the provision of social housing. Including homes built by local authorities and housing associations, Labour built more houses during their 13 years than in the 7 years since then, but built on average fewer houses per year.


text: A camera with photographs of the Titanic sinking has been discovered in the ocean.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-11-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/titanic-photograph-painting/
title: A picture of the Titanic sinking is not a newly discovered photograph - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We can find no evidence to support this. The image on this post is a recent painting, not a photograph.


text: England is easing the lockdown.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/scotland-england-fatality-rates/
title: Be wary of social media posts comparing fatality rates in confirmed Covid-19 cases - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There were some slight changes to the lockdown rules from Wednesday 13 May but they remain much the same as before.


claimant: Peter Stefanovic
claim_date: 2020-10-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/doctor-nhs-increase/
title: The number of doctors working for the NHS in England has increased in the past year - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The statistics which show that 7,810 more doctors are working in the NHS than a year ago include thousands of medical students who are not qualified.

textual_rating:
The statistics include some final year students who could register as a doctor earlier than normal, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This doesn’t mean they are “not qualified”.


text: Twelve years of Conservative government has left Britain with high unemployment.
claimant: Rachel Reeves
claim_date: 2022-12-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/rachel-reeves-high-unemployment/
title: Unemployment in the UK is currently low by historic standards - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is misleading. It’s hard to say what level of unemployment can objectively be called “high”, but the current rate is very low by historic standards.


text: The EU proposes to abolish freedom to publish pictures of public buildings.
claimant: UKIP
claim_date: 2015-06-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-gherkin-and-freedom-panorama/
title: The EU, the Gherkin and 'freedom of panorama' - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-06-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The suggestion is to apply copyright protection to images of public buildings for commercial use. It's at an early stage, and may not be taken up by EU legislators.


text: Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease are now the leading causes of death.
claimant: Judith Cummins
claim_date: 2016-11-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/biggest-cause-death-depends-how-you-count-them/
title: The biggest cause of death depends on how you count them - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It depends how you categorise illnesses. More people died of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease than any other single cause in 2015 but, as a group, cancers were the most common cause of deaths.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-07-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-Mel-Gibson-quote/
title: No evidence Mel Gibson claimed Hollywood elites drink ‘baby blood’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Mel Gibson said Hollywood studios are “drenched in the blood of innocent children” and that the consumption of “baby blood is so popular in Hollywood that it basically operates as a currency of its own”.

textual_rating:
There’s no evidence that Mr Gibson ever made these comments. Similar comments which have previously circulated on social media have been denied by his representatives.


claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2023-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/levelling-up-funding-2023/
title: Which regions receive the most levelling up funding? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
London and the South East will receive more levelling up funding than more deprived regions such as the North East and Yorkshire and The Humber.

textual_rating:
This is true when we look at headline figures, but when we look at funding per person, London was awarded less than the North East and Yorkshire. The South East was awarded less than the North East, but slightly more than Yorkshire.


text: Mr Starmer explains in a clip why child grooming gangs weren’t prosecuted.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2020-05-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/keir-starmer-tweet-child-abuse/
title: This tweet misreports an interview with Keir Starmer - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is incorrect. The clip is from an interview with Mr Starmer on changes to how police and prosecutors deal with victims of child sexual abuse, rather than a discussion of why specific gangs weren’t prosecuted.


text: One in five asylum seekers in the EU are from Syria.
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2015-09-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/are-only-one-five-asylum-seekers-syrian/
title: Are only one in five asylum seekers Syrian? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This was correct for the EU asylum applications in spring 2015 (the latest figures available). But this was before a more recent surge in arrivals, and there is evidence to suggest that a high proportion of these people are from Syria.


claimant: JP Sears
claim_date: 2022-08-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/unknown-causes-not-linked-covid-vaccines/
review_date: 2022-08-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In Alberta, Canada, unknown causes of death are causing even more deaths than heart disease, strokes and diabetes combined.

title:
No evidence rise in deaths due to unknown causes in Canada is linked to Covid-19 vaccines - Full Fact

textual_rating:
“Other ill-defined and unknown causes” was the leading recorded cause of death in Alberta, Canada in 2021. However, there is no evidence these deaths were caused by the Covid-19 vaccines.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-11-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mandatory-vaccine-plans/
title: The government is not proposing to make a Covid-19 vaccine mandatory - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Mental Health Act will be used to section people who refuse to have the Covid-19 vaccine so they can be forced to have it.

textual_rating:
The government is not proposing this. Four legal and ethics academics wrote to the government arguing that this may theoretically be possible.


claimant: David Lidington MP
claim_date: 2018-05-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/increasing-population-households/
title: What’s driving our increasing population and household numbers? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
We have more households because of social change and people living longer for any given level of population than we had a generation ago.

textual_rating:
Immigration has been the largest driver of the increasing population, according to the Office for National Statistics. Life expectancy has also been steadily increasing over the last few decades.


text: A mother is sharing a photograph of her partially-sighted daughter who is “missing”.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-03-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-child-hoax-harmony-montgomery/
review_date: 2023-03-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Facebook hoax about missing child uses photo of girl believed to have been murdered years ago - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The post is a hoax. This photograph shows a girl who went missing in the US in 2019, and police believe was murdered.


claimant: David Warburton MP
claim_date: 2021-01-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-claims-david-warburton/
title: Several coronavirus claims made by MP in newspaper are inaccurate - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Testing creates some revealing anomalies: the virus seems to understand the soft border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, for example, crediting those to the north with a far higher rate of infection.

textual_rating:
It is true that the UK is testing more than the Republic of Ireland. The Republic of Ireland had the world’s highest infection rate at the time of the claim.


text: Mosquitoes kill 2,740 people every day.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-daily-deaths/
title: It’s true these things kill more people each day than Covid-19 has so far - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This appears to be an overestimate. Mosquitoes are responsible for no more than around 700,000 deaths per year, or 1,900 a day.


text: Covid-19 is not killing people.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Covid-can-be-fatal-underlying-cause-of-death/
title: Covid-19 can be fatal and tests for it aren’t rigged - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
ONS figures show that since March 2020, over 128,000 people in England and Wales have died with Covid-19 listed as the underlying cause of death on the death certificate.


text: Ethylene oxide, used to sterilise lateral flow tests, is deadly and turns into antifreeze upon use.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-09-21T00:00:00Z
title: Chemical used to sterilise Covid-19 tests won’t turn into deadly antifreeze - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/health/chemical-used-to-sterilise-covid-19-tests-wont-turn-into-deadly-antifreeze/

textual_rating:
While large amounts of ethylene oxide can be dangerous, the amount used to sterilise tests is tiny and assessed against strict safety standards. No ethylene oxide is left once tests are packaged.


text: 60% of our trade is through EU trade agreements.
claimant: BBC Question Time
claim_date: 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/UK-EU-trade-agreements/
title: Over half of UK exports were via EU trade agreements in 2016 - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-03-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In 2016, around 54% of UK exports went to states with which the EU had a full or provisional trade agreement (including EU member states).


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-11-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/liverpool-testing-schools/
title: Viral letter on Covid-19 testing in Liverpool school was real but has been withdrawn - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A letter sent by a Liverpool school claimed consent wasn’t needed to test children for Covid-19 during a city-wide testing scheme.

textual_rating:
While the letter was genuine, it was withdrawn days after being sent by the school and replaced by a new letter saying consent was required. The council says the first letter was drafted without input from its public health teams.


url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-inequality-1997-2010/
title: Labour's record on inequality and social mobility: 1997 to 2010 - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A 2018 OECD report on social mobility showed from 1997 to 2010 found the UK had the largest fall of any nation in immobility and biggest rise in social mobility.

textual_rating:
There are various measures in the OECD report. Looking at one of them, this is correct: the likelihood of someone still being in the poorest 20% of people in the UK after four years fell from 56% in the early 1990s to 45% in the early 2010s.


claimant: Youtube user
claim_date: 2021-07-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/midazolam-video-matt-hancock/
title: No evidence midazolam used to kill thousands of patients in April 2020 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The sudden spike in deaths during the pandemic was largely the result of lethal midazolam and morphine injections.

textual_rating:
We can find no evidence to support this. Deaths with Covid-19 listed as a cause on the death certificate did spike in April 2020, when midazolam prescriptions also rose, but this was likely because the drug is used to make patients comfortable at the end of their lives and many people were dying—not because the drug was being used to end their lives.


claimant: Henry Smith
claim_date: 2019-02-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/mark-carney-brexit-golden-age/
title: Mark Carney didn’t say Brexit could usher in “a golden age of trade” - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Bank of England governor says that post-Brexit trade deals could lead to “a golden age of trade”.

textual_rating:
Mr Carney’s speech yesterday did not use these words. It did discuss both opportunities and risks from Brexit, but to describe his comments as suggesting a “golden age of trade” is misleading.


text: Drinking a glass of water before going to bed helps prevent stroke and heart attacks.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-08-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/drinking-water-set-times-does-not-provide-certain-health-benefits/
title: Drinking water at set times does not provide certain health benefits - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There’s some evidence that keeping hydrated can help prevent coronary heart disease and help improve stroke outcomes. But we found no evidence specifying that drinking water before bed was particularly beneficial.


text: A Facebook user is searching for their birth mother or father.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-12-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/searching-for-birth-mother-fake-posts/
title: Facebook posts claiming to be searching for birth parents are fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. The image used in the post is taken from a blog post on childhood toys published in 2021, and has been used by multiple different users claiming to be from multiple different places.


text: No law is decided until Parliament votes on it.
claimant: Sajid Javid
claim_date: 2021-12-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/sajid-javid-coronavirus-restrictions/
title: Laws can be made without a parliamentary vote, contrary to the health secretary’s claim - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Some laws are created without or before a parliamentary vote, through secondary, or delegated, legislation.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-09-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/taliban-no-vaccines/
title: What we know about the Taliban and Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Taliban survived the last 18 months with no vaccines, social distancing, PCR testing, masks or business closures to then recapture an entire country with no mass deaths amongst their population during the pandemic.

textual_rating:
It’s not clear if any Taliban members have been vaccinated, though it’s reported they were allowing vaccinations to take place before the August takeover in areas they controlled. Pictures exist of Taliban fighters wearing masks. There have been confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Afghanistan.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/poland-has-not-refused-building-mosques/
title: Poland has not refused to allow the building of mosques - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect. This is not Polish government policy.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Poland has refused to allow mosques to be built until they can build a Christian church in Saudi Arabia.


text: There are 350,000 homeless British people.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/immigration-homelessness/
title: This viral image on immigration and homelessness has a fundamental flaw - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The charity Shelter calculated that an estimated 320,000 people in Great Britain were homeless at the start of 2018. We don’t know what proportion were UK citizens but they certainly weren’t all British.


claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z
title: Number of death certificates with only Covid-19 is a bad estimate of the death toll - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is the number for England and Wales, not the UK.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
To the end of 2021, there have been 6,189 Covid-19 deaths where only Covid-19 was entered on the death certificate.

url:
https://fullfact.org/health/number-of-death-certificates-with-only-covid-19-is-a-bad-estimate-of-the-death-toll/


text: The Duke of Cambridge presides over the UN’s Agenda 21, a global depopulation plan.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-04-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/prince-william-agenda-21/
title: Prince William is not leading a global depopulation agenda - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UN’s Agenda 21 is a sustainable development plan, published in 1992 and not a global depopulation plan. Regardless, Prince William doesn’t preside over it.


text: No more than 100,000 people have died of Covid in the UK.
claimant: Lord Sumption
claim_date: 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/lord-sumption-covid-errors/
title: Lord Sumption made several errors about Covid on Today - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. So far, 124,082 deaths have been recorded in England and Wales alone, where Covid itself was the underlying cause.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/david-attenborough-tree-HS2/
title: No evidence Sir David Attenborough made viral comments about HS2 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: There is no evidence Sir David ever made these comments.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Sir David Attenborough said “words fail me” over the felling of a 300 year-old tree for an HS2 service road.


text: You are going to die if you get tested for Covid-19.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ipsos-mori-isnt-trying-to-kill-you-with-covid-tests/
title: Ipsos MORI isn’t trying to kill you with Covid tests - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is false. There are no reports of anyone dying because of a Covid-19 test. It is important to get tested if you have symptoms.


text: A police officer’s starting salary was £24,000 in 2010 and £23,000 in 2018.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/public-sector-pay-tweet/
title: This tweet on public sector pay doesn’t factor in inflation - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This doesn’t factor in inflation. In 2018 prices, the starting salary fell from £27,400 in 2010 to £23,100 in 2018.


text: A man gave his girlfriend jewellery made from his own teeth.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-01-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/tooth-jewellery-egypt-false/
title: Egyptian man did not give partner jewellery made from his teeth - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The photo was posted as a joke. An accompanying picture of the jewellery appeared in a Buzzfeed article five years ago.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/facebook-girl-missing/
title: This little girl has not vanished from your local area - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-02T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The story is false and appears to be an attempt to gain access to your Facebook account.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A little girl has vanished from a local area and the police need help to identify those responsible.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2023-08-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/fake-donald-trump-mugshots/
title: Fake Donald Trump mugshots shared online - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Both mugshots are fake. A real one has been released where he is wearing a red tie.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Donald Trump mugshots, one where he is wearing a black shirt and looking directly at the camera, and another where he is wearing a striped tie and an American flag badge, have been leaked.


claimant: Bill Gates
claim_date: 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/environment/bill-gates-boris-johnson-green-investment-funding/
title: Bill Gates’ £400m claim about green investment was wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Bill Gates and the UK government are contributing £400 million each to a new fund designed to boost green investment.

textual_rating:
This is not correct. The new fund is worth £400 million in total, with each party contributing £200 million.


text: Face masks are useless.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Covid-can-be-fatal-underlying-cause-of-death/
title: Covid-19 can be fatal and tests for it aren’t rigged - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The guidance has changed throughout the pandemic, however current thinking is that face masks can play a useful role in preventing the spread of Covid-19.


text: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that the Covid-19 pandemic is officially over.
claimant: Stephen Barclay
claim_date: 2023-06-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/steve-barclay-covid-who-pandemic/
review_date: 2023-06-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Steve Barclay wrong to claim the WHO has announced the Covid-19 pandemic is ‘officially over’ - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is not correct. The WHO has downgraded the Covid-19 pandemic from the highest alert level, so it is no longer considered a public health emergency of international concern. But the WHO says the pandemic is ongoing and Covid-19 remains a global health risk.


text: Bill Gates owns the patent and vaccine for coronavirus.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/gates-patent-vaccine-wuhan-lab/
title: Bill Gates doesn’t own the vaccine for or patent of the Covid-19 virus - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. There is no patent for the virus that causes Covid-19, and there is not yet an effective vaccine.


text: Tax on Scottish whisky amounts to £20 billion a year.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-09-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/scotland-finances-whisky-tax/
title: Scottish taxes don’t subsidise English spending - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. A reliable figure for this isn’t available, but the economic output of the entire industry is far less than this.


text: Under the new withdrawal agreement, we have to pay the £39bn Brexit bill we don't legally owe.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-10-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/viral-image-boris-johnsons-brexit-deal/
title: We fact checked this viral image on Boris Johnson's Brexit deal - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The divorce bill is now more like £33 billion, and the UK would be legally obliged to pay it under the terms of newly revised withdrawal agreement.


text: The UK pays nearly a fifth of all VAT going into the EU budget.
claimant: Business for Britain
claim_date: 2015-04-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/does-uk-pay-fifth-vat-going-eu-budget/
title: Does the UK pay a fifth of the VAT going into the EU budget? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK is behind a significant share of the VAT revenue flowing into the EU budget. But it makes more sense to look at all contributions rather than a small part; VAT was only 12% of EU revenue in 2014.


text: According to the Lisbon Treaty, in 2022, our fishing rights become owned by EU.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Lisbon-treaty-short-list/
review_date: 2019-03-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Being in the EU does mean the amount each country can fish per species is limited. Current policy says countries can limit who fishes in their waters to those who have traditionally done so. The Lisbon Treaty isn’t set to change any of this in 2022.


text: No two vaccines have ever been tested together for their efficacy.
claimant: Kate Shemirani
claim_date: 2023-02-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/kate-shemirani-childhood-vaccines/
title: Kate Shemirani makes several false claims about childhood vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Many vaccines have been tested together for efficacy, including as part of the recent co-administration of Covid-19 and flu vaccines.


text: Every five minutes, 70 children will be born in the UK, 20 to mothers not born here.
claimant: Steven Woolfe
claim_date: 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2018-06-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/economy/one-born-every-minute-how-many-migrants-arrive-uk-and-how-many-children-do-they-have/

title:
One born every minute? How many migrants arrive in the UK and how many children do they have? - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Incorrect. In 2016 the equivalent of around seven children were born every five minutes, of whom around two were born to mothers not born in the UK.


claimant: Keir Starmer
claim_date: 2022-10-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-starmer-budget-mortgage-increase/
title: Labour claims about a £500 rise in mortgage payments lack important context - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Mortgage payments are to rise by an average of £500 a month as a “direct consequence” of the recent mini-Budget.

textual_rating:
This figure comes from comparing mortgages available now with those available in August 2020, so it’s not a comparison with those available immediately before the  mini-Budget. While mortgage rates have risen sharply since the mini-Budget, much of the £500 estimated by Labour is due to rates climbing before it took place.


claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2019-08-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/can-refugees-enter-uk-illegally/
title: Can refugees enter the UK illegally? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If you come to the UK illegally, you are an illegal migrant, and I’m afraid the law will treat you as such.

textual_rating:
Not in all cases. Specifically, refugees seeking asylum in the UK can’t be penalised for entering illegally if they are claiming asylum and coming from a place where their life or freedom are threatened. They may also stop over in other “safe” countries en route to the UK.


text: The Royal College of Midwives estimates that there is a shortage of 3,500 midwives in England.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-02-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/shortage-midwives/
title: A shortage of midwives? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It does. The RCM calculates this based on the number of births, the number of midwives, and a widely recognised formula for how many births each midwives can handle per year.


text: No one needs refuge from France.
claimant: Suzanne Evans
claim_date: 2019-01-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/refugees-first-safe-country/
title: Do refugees have to stay in the first safe country they reach? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Although France is generally considered a “safe” potential country for asylum seekers, there is legal precedent to suggest France could potentially be considered a risk to an asylum seeker if the authorities fail to offer them the treatment they are entitled to.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-11-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Covid-isolated-virus/
title: The Covid-19 virus has been isolated many times - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Covid-19 virus has not been isolated as per Koch’s postulates, and this means PCR tests do not work.

textual_rating:
This is untrue. Covid-19 has been isolated many times. It does not need to adhere to Koch’s postulates as it is a virus, and Koch’s rules have been widely disregarded now. Covid-19 PCR tests are generally very accurate.


claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2015-10-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/deradicalisation-referrals-young-and-increasing/
title: "Deradicalisation" referrals: young and increasing? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-10-08T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Broadly correct.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Increasing numbers of people are being referred to the Channel "deradicalisation" scheme, including a large proportion under 18.


claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2016-08-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/farming-subsidies-uk/
title: Do farmers make more from subsidies than agriculture? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-08-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The average farmer made £28,300 in subsidies last year and £2,100 from agriculture. The average cereal farmer lost £9,500 on agriculture.

textual_rating:
The basic point is correct. Last year farmers did make more from subsidies on average than from agriculture. Whether or not the exact figures are correct depends on whether you look at subsidies or all payments that farmers receive from government schemes.


claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2015-10-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/processed-meat-isnt-big-cause-cancer-smoking/
title: Processed meat isn't as big a cause of cancer as smoking - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-10-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that processed meat is as big a cancer threat as cigarettes.

textual_rating:
Inaccurate. The WHO has said processed meat is proven to cause cancer, just as cigarettes are. But the cancer risk attached to eating processed meat is far smaller than smoking.


text: Seems like shingles is being termed as monkeypox.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/shingles-monkeypox-vaers/
title: Monkeypox isn’t shingles in disguise - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Shingles and monkeypox are caused by two completely different viruses, although both cause a rash. Reported cases of monkeypox in the UK have been confirmed with a PCR test.


text: Police have rescued a newborn baby that was abandoned in Barnsley, South Yorkshire.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-08-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/abandoned-baby-barnsley/
title: Report of newborn baby abandoned in Barnsley is fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. The picture in the Facebook post relates to an abandoned baby case from Thailand which took place in 2017.


claimant: dr amir khan
claim_date: 2023-04-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/pay-inflation-mps-junior-doctors/
title: How do junior doctors’ pay demands compare with MPs’ recent salary rises? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Junior doctors are seeking a 35% pay uplift to reverse a real-terms pay cut since 2008/09. Over the same period MPs have had a pay rise of about 30%, and are now effectively saying to junior doctors “paying you what we’ve been paid is unfair”.

textual_rating:
While MPs have had more of a pay uplift than junior doctors in England since 2008, these figures aren’t like-for-like. If you don’t count inflation, between 2008/09 and 2021/22 MPs’ salaries rose by 29% and the BMA says junior doctors’ basic pay rose by about 17%. Factoring in RPI inflation, MPs have had a real-terms pay cut over this period, though a proportionally smaller one than junior doctors.


text: Families are set to see their mortgage repayments increase by £500 a month.
claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2022-10-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-starmer-budget-mortgage-increase/
title: Labour claims about a £500 rise in mortgage payments lack important context - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This calculation appears to be based on a Labour Party estimate that looked specifically at how payments will change for homeowners now coming off a two-year fixed-term mortgage, rather than all mortgages. The £500 rise is based on the increase in interest rates since August 2020.


text: Labour’s manifesto would have cost half of HS2.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/hs2-costs-labour-manifesto/
title: HS2 isn’t expected to cost as much as this post claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Labour’s 2019 manifesto set aside £83 billion of additional day-to-day spending by 2023, and there were other costs not included in the manifesto. This is much more than half the current estimated cost of HS2, which is the sum of many years' spending anyway.


text: A video shows a hot dog covered in dirt and parasites when observed under a microscope.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-08-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/hot-dogs-under-microscope/
title: Viral hot dog clip was a ‘deliberate fake’ by creator - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The hot dog clip was deliberately faked by the creator, who rubbed the sample on surfaces and clothing before putting it under a microscope. The worm-like organisms were not on the hot dog either.


claimant: Angela Eagle
claim_date: 2017-03-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/has-government-assessed-economic-impact-no-brexit-deal/
title: Has the government assessed the economic impact of no Brexit deal? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Brexit Secretary said this week he has done no analytical work to assess the economic impact of failing to reach a deal with the EU over trade arrangements after Brexit.

textual_rating:
The Brexit Secretary said this week the government has not done any further forecasts of the economic impact of a ‘no deal’ situation since the EU referendum. He said the government needs to fully plan for failed negotiations (which he said it is in the process of doing) before it can make such a forecast.


claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-02-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/increasing-state-pension-age/
title: Increasing the state pension age - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government committed over £1 billion to reduce the impact of changes and limit them to 18 months.

textual_rating:
Correct. The government limited the increase in the state pension age from the new 2011 timetable so that no-one would face an increase of more than 18 months. That reduced the savings it would otherwise have made by £1.1 billion. Overall, changes since 1995 mean some women will retire three to six years later planned.


text: Headteachers on average earn £95,000.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2023-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/head-teachers-salary-express/
title: £95k average headteacher salary refers only to state secondary schools - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is close to the average salary of a secondary school headteacher in England. The average salary of all headteachers at state schools in England is £74,100.


text: Long Covid is just a side effect of Covid-19 vaccinations.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-11-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/long-covid-vaccination-cause/
title: Long Covid is not really just Covid-19 vaccination side effects - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. Unvaccinated people can also get long Covid, and studies suggest they are at higher risk of doing so.


text: In England the fatality rate is 50% higher than Scotland, at 20.9%.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/scotland-england-fatality-rates/
title: Be wary of social media posts comparing fatality rates in confirmed Covid-19 cases - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The proportion of people with NHS-lab confirmed cases who have died so far is 50% higher in England than in Scotland.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-06-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/who-owns-the-railways/
title: Which train operating companies are run by other countries’ governments? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A list shows 17 train operating companies in the UK that are owned in full or part by the French, German, Dutch, Italian or Hong Kong states.

textual_rating:
The list is out of date, as ScotRail, Northern and Transport for Wales rail have since been nationalised and are now run by the Scottish, UK and Welsh governments respectively.


text: The UK is the only G7 country to be reducing aid spending in 2021.
claimant: Ed Miliband
claim_date: 2021-06-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-foreign-aid-g7/
title: The UK will cut aid this year, but barely did last year - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This may be true, but we don’t yet have enough evidence to be sure. The UK certainly plans to reduce aid spending significantly in 2021. Most other G7 countries plan to increase it. We don’t yet know whether they all will, on all measures.


claimant: Emily Thornberry
claim_date: 2017-07-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/women-despatch-box-prime-ministers-questions/
title: Women at the despatch box for Prime Minister’s Questions - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-07-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct. The same is true for Labour.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Conservatives have had only three female MPs represent their party at Prime Minister’s Questions since 1997.


claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2015-04-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/have-nhs-waiting-times-got-better-or-worse-pick-your-measure/
title: Have NHS waiting times got better or worse? Pick your measure - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-09-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: These are two different measures of waiting times, which often move in different directions.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
More NHS patient are waiting 18 weeks for treatment in England, says the Guardian. Fewer are, says the government.


text: New rules mean that men accused of rape must prove that the woman consented to sex.
claimant: Gordon Rayner and Bill Gardner
claim_date: 2015-01-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/factcheck-men-accused-rape-dont-have-prove-woman-said-yes/
title: Men accused of rape don't have to "prove that a woman said Yes" - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-01-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The advice for police and prosecutors doesn't change the law. The state almost always has to prove lack of consent, and lack of a reasonable belief that there was.


text: A no deal Brexit will cost us nothing.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/no-deal-brexit-costs/
title: Claims that a no deal Brexit “will cost us nothing” are incorrect - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The government has already spent money on specifically preparing for no deal. Experts say no deal may lead to a long-term reduction in economic prosperity.


text: The UK was able to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine more quickly because of Brexit.
claimant: Matt Hancock
claim_date: 2020-12-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-vaccine-brexit/
title: Vaccine approval isn’t quicker because of Brexit - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-12-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not correct. Under European law, the UK was permitted to act independently to approve the vaccine in an emergency.


text: Based on ONS data, immigration has put English house prices up by 20% over the last 25 years.
claimant: Dominic Raab
claim_date: 2018-04-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/have-house-prices-risen-because-immigrants/
title: Have house prices risen because of immigrants? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s impossible to say for definite. Government analysis suggests immigration has pushed English house prices up by 20% but says it’s not meant to be a complete answer, and should be used with caution. There is no consensus across other research.


claimant: Caroline Lucas
claim_date: 2016-10-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/do-15-people-take-70-flights/
title: Do 15% of people take 70% of flights? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
70% of all flights / all international flights by UK residents are taken by just 15% of the population.

textual_rating:
70% of all flights in Great Britain were taken by 15% of adults according to analysis of a 2014 government survey.


text: From 21 July to 25 July, 12 people died from Covid-19 in Spain.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/spain-uk-covid-comparison/
title: You were more likely to catch Covid-19 in Spain than the UK in late July. - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Broadly correct. Around 10 people in Spain died after testing positive with Covid-19, so this figure will miss out some Covid-19 deaths.Correct.


text: Black workers face a widening pay gap the more qualifications they earn.
claimant: The Independent
claim_date: 2016-02-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/do-black-workers-face-widening-pay-gap-more-qualifications-they-earn/
title: Do black workers face a widening pay gap the more qualifications they earn? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There’s evidence of an overall pay gap, but the relationship between qualifications and pay is complicated. The claim is based on analysis comparing the average earnings of black and white workers over an annual period. It doesn’t take account of things like the grades obtained in each qualification, where graduates have studied and what types of jobs they end up in. Nor does it mean that this will be the experience that individual workers have—it tells us what the gap looks like overall.


text: Covid-19 doesn’t really exist.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-09-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-does-exist/
title: Scrabble picture is wrong to say Covid-19 doesn’t exist - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It does, and there’s plenty of evidence, including the multiple times the virus that causes it has been sequenced and isolated, and the number of deaths and hospitalisations it has caused.


claimant: The Economist
claim_date: 2017-10-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/regional-inequality-figures-misleading/
review_date: 2018-09-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In the UK there’s a huge difference in wealth per person between the poorest and richest regions, compared to other countries.

title:
One measure of inequality makes the UK look far less equal than other countries—it’s not - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is because of the way the data is collected, rather than real world effects. Using other measures the UK’s income inequality is about average compared to similar countries.


text: The Spanish Flu wasn’t a flu virus, it was a bacteria that caused severe and lethal pneumonia.
claimant: Facebook User
claim_date: 2021-11-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/1918-pandemic-meningitis-vaccine/
title: Spanish Flu pandemic wasn’t caused by a meningitis vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The 1918 flu pandemic, also known as Spanish Flu, was caused by the influenza A H1N1 virus. There is evidence that many of the people who died in the pandemic may have had an additional bacterial pneumonia.


text: Donald Tusk’s grandfather was a German SS officer.
claimant: Iron Lady News
claim_date: 2019-01-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Donald-Tusk-grandfather/
title: Donald Tusk’s grandfather was not in the SS - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. His grandfather was Polish and was arrested by the Nazis in 1939. He was made a forced labourer, then imprisoned, and was then conscripted into the armed forces of Nazi Germany in 1944.


text: A single person on Universal Credit will receive £334 per month
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-03-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/lords-allowance-universal-credit/
review_date: 2022-03-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
The House of Lords’ daily allowance is about what Universal Credit pays in a month—but peers don’t get it every day - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is currently the basic monthly allowance for a single person aged over 24. However, many claimants will receive supplementary payments, and many others will not receive the full amount if they also earn an income above a certain level from work.


text: UK GDP growth in the second quarter of 2018 was 0.4%. In the Eurozone it was 0.3%.
claimant: MoggMentum
claim_date: 2018-08-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-economic-growth-higher-europe/
title: Is UK economic growth higher than in Europe? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This was correct when the claim was made earlier in August, but the figures have since been revised, with both the UK and Eurozone growing at 0.4% in the second quarter. 


Growth in the EU and the Eurozone is higher in the previous 12 months than the UK. It’s projected to stay that way.


text: Drinking tea cuts early death risk.
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2022-08-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/tea-linked-to-lower-mortality-rate/
title: No proof drinking tea cuts risk of early death - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This article reports on a study that found drinking two or more cups of tea was associated with a lower mortality risk, but did not prove drinking tea was the cause.


text: The average cost of a child’s funeral is £3,675.
claimant: Chris Bryant
claim_date: 2016-11-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/cost-childrens-funerals/
title: The cost of children's funerals - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the cost of an average funeral in 2016 according to a survey by insurers Royal London. Another firm puts the cost slightly higher. The cost of burying a child may be lower in some areas, as councils often waive or discount burial fees for under-16s.


text: CCTV footage posted on social media shows the recent breaching of the Nova Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-06-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/nova-kakhovka-dam-video-explosion/
title: Video of explosion at Nova Kakhovka Dam is from 2022 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This footage does show the Nova Kakhovka Dam, but it is not recent. It depicts an attack which took place last November.


text: A no deal Brexit means we wouldn’t have to pay a £39 billion divorce bill to the EU.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/what-does-wto-rules-brexit-look/
title: What does a “WTO rules” Brexit look like? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Under the withdrawal deal we have to pay the EU an estimated bill of £39 billion. 

With no deal, it’s uncertain how much of that we’d have to pay, if anything.


text: Over 100 local councils have signed up to the ‘15 minute city agenda’.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-04-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/digital-ID-Oxford-15-minute-cities-false/
title: 15 minute cities do not introduce digital IDs - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This seems to be based on a pledge made by over 100 local councils to progress towards Net Zero in the next decade. It does not commit councils to specific policies or measures such as a 15 minute city strategy.


claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2022-11-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/Autumn-Statement-BBC-Graph/
title: BBC graph showing impact of Autumn Statement contains several errors - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The combined tax and spend impact of the Autumn Statement will increase annual public spending by about £42 million this year, but reduce it by about £55 million by 2027/28.

textual_rating:
These figures should be billions, not millions. They are correct according to the government’s projections, if you include energy and cost of living support.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-06-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/white-cliffs-dover-black-lives-matter-petition/
title: This was a real petition calling for the White Cliffs of Dover to be renamed - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A petition on change.org called for the White Cliffs of Dover to be renamed the Black Lives Matter Cliffs of Dover.

textual_rating:
This was a real petition, which has been taken down from the site for breaching its community standards. It doesn’t seem to be connected to the official Black Lives Matter group in the UK.


text: A video of military planes flying overhead is footage from the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-02-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/moscow-military-plane-flyover/
review_date: 2022-02-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. It shows footage of a military parade rehearsal from May 2020.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Video claiming to show planes during Russian invasion of Ukraine is actually of 2020 parade rehearsal - Full Fact


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccine-ingredients/
title: This image about vaccine ingredients is extremely misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Neomycin sulphate, an antibiotic, is in vaccines and can lead to epilepsy, brain damage and allergic reactions.

textual_rating:
Trace amounts of this antibiotic may end up in certain vaccines. If you are allergic to it could cause an allergic reaction.


claimant: Daily Telegraph
claim_date: 2016-10-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/age-assessments-calais-asylum-seekers/
title: Age assessments for Calais asylum seekers - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Nearly two-thirds of ‘child’ refugees who officials questioned about their real age were found to be adults.

textual_rating:
The Home Office has decided in two thirds of ‘age disputes’ that the asylum seeker involved was over 18. But there’s no definitive test for age, and this fact isn’t necessarily relevant to young people who have already been screened for age in Calais.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pfizer-ceo-davos/
title: Pfizer CEO did not say he wanted to decrease population by 50% - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Pfizer’s CEO said one of his goals was that “by 2023, we will reduce the number of people in the world by 50%.”

textual_rating:
He did not say this. The video has been edited. He actually said that by 2023 he wanted to reduce the number of people in the world who could not afford Pfizer’s medicines by 50%.


claimant: Department of Health
claim_date: 2016-02-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/does-mental-ill-health-cost-105-billion-year/
title: Does mental ill health cost £105 billion a year? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-02-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The cost of mental ill health to the economy, the NHS and society as a whole is £105 billion a year.

textual_rating:
£105 billion is an estimate of the annual economic and social costs of mental ill health from health charity Centre for Mental Health. It doesn’t just count public costs though: about half of it is made up of an estimate of the cost to individuals from the lower quality of life due to having mental health difficulties. It’s an uncertain estimate.


text: The Conservatives’ ambition is a state pension age of 75.
claimant: John McDonnell
claim_date: 2019-11-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/conservative-pension-age-plans/
title: John McDonnell repeats misleading claim about Conservative pension age plans - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This was recommended in a report by the Centre for Social Justice think tank. There’s no indication that it’s Conservative party policy.


text: Tax credits originally cost £1.1bn. Now they've reached £30bn.
claimant: George Osborne
claim_date: 2015-07-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/tax-credits-how-much-has-spending-increased-16-years/
title: Tax credits: how much has spending increased in 16 years? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-07-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure only covers half a year, when the first tax credits were introduced in 1999. They cost over £4bn in their first full year compared to £28bn today.


claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2021-06-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/foreign-aid-2021/
title: Boris Johnson was broadly right about aid spending - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The present government is continuing to spend more on foreign aid than any previous Labour government.

textual_rating:
This is essentially true. Spending was briefly slightly higher than the present government’s planned target in 2006 and 2009, but no previous government has sustained it at or above that level.


text: £4.6 billion was cut from the adult social care budget in the last parliament.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2016-12-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/social-care-funding-pmqs/
title: Social care funding - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The report behind the figure says the actual budget fell by £1.6 billion, with the rest of the £4.6 billion attributed to more people needing social care and the cost of social care having risen. We don’t know how accurate these figures are, though social care spending did fall overall during the last parliament. We’re checking the figures.


text: In 2014 Chuka Umunna tweeted to promise he wouldn’t join the Liberal Democrats.
url: https://fullfact.org/news/supposed-chuka-umunna-tweet-doesnt-seem-be-real/
title: This supposed Chuka Umunna tweet doesn’t seem to be real - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The tweet in question seems to be fake, it isn’t formatted in the same way as Twitter was five years ago and we’ve found no evidence Mr Umunna ever tweeted this.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/COP26-Tesla-cars/
title: World leaders will not get Tesla cars at COP26 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Tesla cars have been bought to transport COP26 delegates and because there aren’t enough charging points, they will be charged via a diesel run generator.

textual_rating:
Supplied electric vehicles for the climate change conference will be Jaguar Land Rover vehicles and any generators will run on recycled cooking oil.


text: Ticketmaster is planning a mandatory Covid-19 vaccine verification policy for concert attendance.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2020-11-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/ticketmaster-coronavirus-vaccine/
title: Ticketmaster won’t demand proof of a Covid-19 vaccine for concert entry - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Ticketmaster said it is exploring a number of safety features that events organisers may want to use, including checks on test and vaccine status, but entry requirements will be up to organisers.


text: Free movement of people across the EU means that migrants now fill one in nine jobs in Britain.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2017-04-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/are-one-nine-uk-workers-migrants/
title: Are one in nine UK workers migrants? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-04-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
About one in nine UK workers were estimated to be foreign nationals in 2016, including nationals from outside the EU.  This proportion has been increasing, which the ONS has said is mostly down to EU immigration.


text: Many nurses have to go to food banks.
claimant: Emily Thornberry
claim_date: 2017-11-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nurses-second-jobs/
title: Are nurses taking a second job to survive? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-11-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Media reports show that at least some individual nurses and trainees have visited food banks. We do not have solid evidence of the scale of use.


claimant: David Cameron
claim_date: 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/eu-immigration-blame-missing-net-migration-target/
title: Is EU immigration to blame for missing the net migration target? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-03-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
High levels of EU immigration mean the government hasn't been able to cut net migration to the tens of thousands

textual_rating:
Net migration from other EU countries isn't the only reason the government hasn't met its net migration target.


claimant: YouTube video
claim_date: 2022-08-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/contrails-not-geoengineering/
title: Contrails are not evidence of plan to block out the sun - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
White lines in the sky are what’s being called chemtrails, or geoengineering designed to block out the sun.

textual_rating:
The lines in the sky are contrails, not chemtrails, which do not exist. It is true that some scientists have suggested spraying particles in the atmosphere to reduce solar radiation, but contrails are not evidence of this.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/martin-lewis-city-of-london-police/
review_date: 2020-11-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is incorrect. They have not been warning about this specific scam.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
City of London Police and Martin Lewis are warning people about a scam involving banks and mobile networks.

title:
Martin Lewis and City of London Police have not warned about a scam involving banks and mobile networks - Full Fact


claimant: The Expose
claim_date: 2022-07-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/monkeypox-pfizer-vaccine-countries/
title: No evidence Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine is causing monkeypox - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Public health authorities are attempting to cover up Covid-19 vaccine-induced shingles by calling it monkeypox.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence of a link between Covid-19 vaccines and monkeypox. Shingles is a different infection.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2023-04-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/france-protest-not-about-macron/
title: Picture of ‘anti-Macron protest’ is actually from 2018 World Cup - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The picture was taken in Paris in 2018 after France won the World Cup.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An image shows millions of people protesting in France against “WEF globalist puppet” Emmanuel Macron.


text: Toby Carvery is offering a free meal-for-two to people who share and comment on a Facebook post.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-03-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Toby-Carvery-fake-giveaway-meal-for-two/
title: Toby Carvery is not giving away free meals for two on Facebook - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The owners of Toby Carvery, Mitchells & Butlers, say the post and the page it is published on have nothing to do with them.


text: A girl called Ellie Morrad is missing.
claimant: wecanhelpyou909.cyou
claim_date: 2021-05-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ellie-morad-not-missing-may-2021/
title: Fake missing child reports used to scam Facebook users - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
She is not. This is the latest in a long line of fake missing child reports posted on Facebook to scam people.


text: Mark Carney said households are £900 a year worse off because of Brexit.
claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/are-families-900-worse-brexit/
title: Are families £900 worse off since Brexit? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
He said that “some of it” was “arguably” down to Brexit. The figures are based on the difference between the Bank of England’s projections for individuals’ real wage growth between 2016 and 2018 and what actually happened.


text: The new nasal flu vaccine is linked to strep A cases.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/strep-A-historic-deaths/
title: Strep A deaths are not dangerous new strain caused by flu vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The nasal flu vaccine has been used in the UK for nine years. There is no evidence to suggest it causes strep A infection, and it is a safe and effective preventative measure against flu.


text: Nine in 10 of NASUWT’s members voted in favour of strike action.
claimant: NASUWT
claim_date: 2023-01-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/nasuwt-neu-strike-ballot-tweet/
title: Claim ‘nine in 10’ teachers voted to strike is misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is missing context. Only 42% of NASUWT’s members voted at all. Of those who did, 90% said they were in favour of strike action.


text: Only one terrorism suspect in the UK out of 2,000 is under a curfew.
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2016-07-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/terrorism-suspects-curfew/
title: How many terrorism suspects are under curfew? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-07-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is true, but not new. 

Going back several years, there have only been a few Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures restricting the activity of terrorism suspects in force at any given time – sometimes none. 

The estimate that there are 2,000 “terrorism suspects” is not official, but does seem to come from people who know about the issue.


claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2018-05-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/hmrc-unanswered-calls/
title: HMRC: how many unanswered calls? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
More than one in 10 callers to HMRC fails to get through to anyone, compared with just over one in 20 a year ago.

textual_rating:
13% of calls to HMRC went unanswered from April 2017 to February 2018, compared to 8% in 2016/17 as a whole.


text: Women are getting ahead of men in terms of pay before they become mothers.
claimant: Jill Kirby
claim_date: 2017-01-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/age-motherhood-gender-pay-gap/
title: Age, motherhood and the gender pay gap - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We’ve not seen clear evidence that women are getting ahead on average, even though women and men are paid more equitably in their 20s than later in life.


claimant: The Daily Sceptic
claim_date: 2022-07-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/vaccine-deaths-survey/
title: Covid-19 vaccines have not killed twice as many people as the virus - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
More than twice as many Americans have lost a household member to a Covid vaccine injury as have lost one to Covid.

textual_rating:
Covid-19 has killed over one million people in the United States. Only a small number of deaths have been reported following vaccination, and a CDC study has found no link between reported deaths and receiving two vaccine doses.


text: The majority of Britons say the police have lost control of the streets.
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2018-07-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/do-majority-britons-say-police-have-lost-control-streets/
title: Do a majority of Britons say the police have lost control of the streets? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A poll of 2,000 people in Great Britain found that 57% agreed with this statement. The poll also found that 43% said their police force was excellent or good and a majority said they felt safe on their streets.


text: The UK spent £37 billion on Test and Trace.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-03-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/germany-test-trace-cost/
title: Claims about German Test and Trace costs completely wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. This is the budget for NHS Test and Trace over two years, not the spend. The programme underspent by £8 billion in its first year.


text: There is a rising problem of mental stress among children because of exams.
claimant: David Dimbleby
claim_date: 2018-02-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/exam-stress-school-children/
title: Exam stress for school children - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-02-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There’s evidence to support this from children’s counselling services and the views of school leaders in England, but we don’t yet know much more about how common exam stress is across the UK more generally.


text: The economy has grown by 73% under this Conservative government.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-01-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/boris-johnson-economic-growth/
title: Boris Johnson gets his numbers muddled on economic growth - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The economy grew 73% between 1990 and 2017, under both Labour and Conservative-led governments. The economy has grown by around 20% since the Conservatives took office in 2010.


text: Vaccines pose a risk of death to the elderly.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/there-isnt-pork-in-covid-19-vaccines/
title: There isn’t pork in Covid-19 vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Vaccine side effects are rarely serious, and the risk of death from the vaccine is much lower than the risk of Covid-19 infection.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2019-10-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/peoples-vote-march-oct-19/
title: Unevidenced tweet about People’s Vote crowd size spreads to Facebook - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
According to German TV, there were 2.2 million at the People’s Vote march in London on Saturday 19 October.

textual_rating:
We’ve seen no evidence any German TV station said this. Best estimates suggest the number was in the low hundreds of thousands. Two million is an implausible estimate.


text: Just 748.6 people per 100,000 died in England in May.
claimant: Daily Telegraph
claim_date: 2021-06-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/telegraph-suggests-9-england-dies-each-year/
title: Telegraph suggests 9% of England dies each year - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. If May’s death rate was replicated over the course of a year, then 748.6 people per 100,000 would die. But about a twelfth as many people died in May alone.


claimant: Question from readers
claim_date: 2020-12-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/vaccine-covid-fertility/
title: No evidence Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine affects women’s fertility - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-12-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Covid-19 spike protein which the Pfizer vaccine causes an immune response against also trains the body to attack syncytin-1, a protein in the placenta, which could lead to infertility in women.

textual_rating:
This claim has no basis. The spike protein on the Covid-19 virus and a protein that makes up the placenta have only a small amount in common, almost certainly not enough for the immune system to attack the placenta.


text: All animals died in the vaccine’s clinical trials.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-07-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/animal-testing-covid-vaccine-experimental/
title: Post makes misleading claims about Covid vaccines and animal trials - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Animals are usually euthanised as part of medical trials so scientists can examine their organs for signs of pathology. This does not mean they were killed by the vaccine.


text: The Grenadier Guards’ band played the ‘Imperial March’ during Donald Trump’s state visit.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2019-06-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/imperial-march-was-not-played-donald-trump-during-his-uk-state-visit/
title: The ‘Imperial March’ was not played to Donald Trump during his UK state visit - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
They did not play the song. It was edited over actual footage of the band playing a selection of US military anthems.


text: Far more people have died of Covid-19 in the UK than in Japan
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/uk-japan-covid-comparison/
title: Far more people have died of Covid-19 in the UK than in Japan - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct. At the time this post appeared there had been 31,855 Covid-19 deaths reported in the UK, compared with 628 in Japan.


text: MPs get free iPads.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mps-free-housing-alcohol/
title: What can MPs claim on expenses? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
MPs are able to loan an iPad from the House of Commons. They can also claim computing expenses for their constituency office on expenses.


text: Covid-19 is a deliberate hoax designed to promote the climate change agenda.
claimant: David Icke
claim_date: 2021-05-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/david-icke-makes-false-claim-that-vaccines-are-gene-therapy/
title: David Icke makes false claim that vaccines are ‘gene therapy’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is a misinterpretation of a book written in 2020 by the executive chairman of the World Economic Forum.


text: The current withdrawal agreement effectively keeps us in the single market and customs union.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2019-07-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/withdrawal-agreement-not-trade-deal/
title: The withdrawal agreement is not a trade deal with the EU - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The withdrawal agreement doesn’t set out the terms of the UK’s future trading relationship with the EU. That would have to be negotiated after Brexit. If the withdrawal agreement passed but no trade deal was then negotiated, the Irish backstop would kick in—keeping Northern Ireland aligned to some of the rules of the single market, but not the rest of the UK. The UK would be in a customs union.


