# claims

text: EU immigrants pay £1.34 in taxes for every £1 they receive in state assistance
claimant: British Influence
claim_date: 2016-02-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/do-eu-immigrants-contribute-134-every-1-they-receive/
title: Do EU immigrants contribute £1.34 for every £1 received from the UK? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-02-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Research has found this for recent immigrants from other EU countries, but counting those who came before 2000 reduces this figure. This is a difficult thing to measure, and other research has different findings.


text: EU law controls UK migration policy.
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-referendum-voting-guide-vote-leave-immigration/
title: EU Referendum Voting Guide: Vote Leave on immigration - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
EU law means the UK can’t control the number of EU citizens coming to the country, but we can perform border checks and refuse entry to certain people.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-04-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/viral-pensions-post/
title: Viral pensions post has its maths all wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
People should get much higher state pensions because both employees and employers paid into them, and with interest, that should generate millions in income for pensioners when they retire.

textual_rating:
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how state pensions work. National Insurance contributions paid by employees and employers essentially fund that year’s state pensions, plus some other benefits. Private pensions are invested and generate income.


text: Videos show rioters in France have released animals including zebras and lions from Paris Zoo.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/zebra-lion-street-paris-zoo-riots/
title: Zebras and lions filmed running through streets were not filmed during French riots - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence to support these claims. At least two of the clips being shared online are old, and there is no information from credible sources to suggest that animals have been released from the zoo.


text: 10,000 fewer places on nursing courses have been filled because there are fewer applications.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
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 applications rather than places. There are still more applicants than places.


text: Sir Patrick Vallance said 60% of people currently in hospital with Covid-19 were double vaccinated.
claimant: Patrick Vallance
claim_date: 2021-07-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-hospitalisations-vaccine-patrick-vallance/
title: Double vaccinated people do not make up 60% of Covid-19 hospitalisations - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It is correct that he said this during a government briefing, but later corrected his remarks on Twitter. He meant to say 60% of hospitalisations from Covid-19 are currently from unvaccinated people.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-08-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/boys-baby-names-2018/
title: The ranking of most popular baby names depends on how you count them - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Various spellings of the name Muhammad combined rank number one for most popular boys name in England and Wales in 2018.

textual_rating:
This all depends on how you count the various spellings of Muhammad and other boys’ names and abbreviations of names. If you count Henry and Harry variations together, they come higher.


claimant: The Independent
claim_date: 2018-07-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/violence-and-drugs-prison/
title: Violence and drugs in prison - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There were 46,850 self-harm incidents in prisons in the year to March 2018, up 16%, and an average of 128 recorded a day.


text: Heathrow Airport is used primarily by people on expensive flights.
claimant: Janet Street-Porter
claim_date: 2018-06-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/heathrow-just-high-flyers/
title: Is Heathrow just for high flyers? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A survey found flyers from Heathrow say they have higher incomes than those flying from most other London airports, but we don’t know how much their flights cost.


text: Only 11% of people who need to self-isolate are being contacted.
claimant: Bill Esterson
claim_date: 2020-12-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/labour-11-percent-not-self-isolate/
title: Why are people not self-isolating? - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. We do not have a precise figure for this. Official statistics show that the proportion of known contacts being reached is much higher.


text: There were fewer deaths recorded in the first 15 weeks of 2020 than in the first 15 weeks of 2018.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/ons-2020-covid-death-totals/
review_date: 2020-04-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Total deaths in the UK in 2020 have now risen above the deaths during the same period in 2018 - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Correct, although the number of deaths in recent weeks far exceeds the number at the same point in any recent year.


text: Class sizes are soaring under the Conservatives.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-03-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/class-sizes-under-conservatives/
title: Class sizes under the Conservatives - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The average class size in English state primary schools has been increasing. It rose from 26.4 pupils in 2010 to 27.1 in 2016. In secondary schools, average class sizes have dropped from 20.5 to 20.4 in the same period.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-01-04T00:00:00Z
title: No evidence Boris Johnson said he wanted to “lop the heads off of smelly peasants” - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Boris Johnson said he wishes he’d been born in the middle ages when he could behead peasants and have sex with a “stable boy”.

url:
https://fullfact.org/online/no-evidence-boris-johnson-said-he-wanted-to-lop-the-heads-off-of-smelly-peasants/

textual_rating:
There is no evidence Boris Johnson said this. There is no record or archive of this quote beyond non-attributable Facebook and Twitter posts.


text: You should never give a baby under six months water.
claimant: Dr Karan Rajan
claim_date: 2023-04-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/babies-water/
title: Advice to ‘NEVER’ give babies water is missing context - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Formula fed babies may need small amounts of water in hot weather on top of their normal feed. Breastfed babies should not need this, and water shouldn’t be given to young babies routinely. Babies are at risk of water intoxication if they are given too much.


claimant: Angela Eagle
claim_date: 2016-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/are-changes-maintenance-grants-being-made-through-arcane-loophole/
title: Are changes to maintenance grants being made through an arcane loophole? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government is using an arcane loophole to bypass the House of Commons to force through changes to maintenance grants for students.

textual_rating:
The way in which proposals are being introduced isn't unusual. The debate is over whether the government should have made the time for MPs to debate the changes in the chamber of the House of Commons following opposition from the Labour Party.


claimant: Toby Young
claim_date: 2021-11-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/italy-death-toll/
title: Italy hasn’t changed its Covid-19 death toll from 130,000 to under 4,000 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The National Health Institute in Italy has recalculated the Covid-19 death toll from 130,468 down to 3,783 directly due to Covid-19, or 2.9% of the total.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. Research from the Italian health authorities looking at a sample of around 8,000 people who’d died in hospital with Covid-19 found 2.9% didn’t have any previous underlying conditions, not that they didn’t die of Covid-19.


claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2016-12-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/robots-and-your-job/
title: Robots and the future of your job - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The governor of the Bank of England has said that 15 million jobs in the UK could be stolen by robots.

textual_rating:
That's one way of putting it. Mark Carney quoted an estimate that 15 million jobs in the UK could be automated over the next few decades. In the past, new technology has created new types of work and hasn't caused mass unemployment in the long run.


text: Computers are getting better than humans at reading.
claimant: CNN
claim_date: 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/are-computers-getting-better-humans-reading/
title: Are computers getting better than humans at reading? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
They’re not. “Even elementary school reading comprehensions are harder” than the test computers passed, says the test’s creator. It’s an academic milestone not a practical one.


text: Rishi Sunak spent £8.7 billion on “dodgy PPE so useless it will have to be burnt”.
claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2022-03-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/labour-ppe-burnt-claims/
title: Labour overstates amount spent on ‘dodgy PPE’ which will be burnt - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. £8.7 billion refers to the loss in value of PPE bought in 2020/21 at the end of the financial year. While some will be burnt, DHSC said some of the equipment this loss related to was still usable—and some which wasn’t is being recycled or donated.


text: Asylum seekers in France receive no benefits.
claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-03-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/asylum-seekers-benefit-payments-hotels/
title: Asylum seekers do not receive £175 a week - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
French asylum seekers receive a broadly similar level of financial support to that provided by the UK.


claimant: Terry Christian
claim_date: 2019-09-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/brexit-not-concealing-offshore-accounts/
title: Claim Brexit is about concealing offshore accounts is baseless - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect. There is no such EU law coming into place.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In January 2020 a new EU law means anyone who has an offshore bank account will have to “come clean so we can see how much they are hiding”.


text: The UK can test nearly 250,000 people a day for Covid-19.
claimant: Nadhim Zahawi
claim_date: 2020-09-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/question-time-testing-figures/
title: Lots of people are getting confused over testing figures - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is probably not true, because it would rely on testing everybody just once, which does not happen in practice.


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
text:
Klaus Schwab wrote that four billion people would die through planned epidemics, war and starvation by 2050.

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


text: The Covid vaccine will make you infertile.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2020-12-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccine-infertile-sued/
review_date: 2020-12-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This claim has no basis. Experts say that the risk of the Covid vaccine affecting a woman’s fertility is “vanishingly small.”


claimant: Andy Burnham
claim_date: 2020-10-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/question-time-furlough-scheme/
title: Andy Burnham was wrong about furlough on Question Time - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
People working in restaurants and bars in Bolton that were closed because of local Covid-19 restrictions could not access any support.

textual_rating:
This is not correct. During the local restrictions in Bolton, businesses were still able to make claims through the furlough scheme on behalf of employees who had already been furloughed for at least three consecutive weeks before July.


text: Membership of the single market has led to wage suppression over the last 12 years.
claimant: Richard Tice
claim_date: 2017-01-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/membership-single-market-and-lower-wages/
title: What’s the link between membership of the single market and lower wages? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We haven’t seen evidence to prove that membership of the single market suppressed wages in the last 12 years.


text: The UK and USA invest $1 trillion between them in each other’s economies.
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2019-06-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-us-trading-and-investment/
title: UK-US trading and investment: a special relationship - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. UK-based companies invested around $541 billion in the USA in 2017 while US-based companies invested around $748 billion in the UK, according to official US figures. That totals around $1.3 trillion.


text: Betting on online slot machines has increased by 25% during lockdown.
claimant: Huffington Post
claim_date: 2020-07-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/spending-on-online-slot-machines-didnt-go-up-25-in-lockdown/
title: Spending on online slot machines didn’t go up 25% in lockdown - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Betting on online slot machines fell during the lockdown but the number of players increased 25% between March 2019 and March 2020.


text: New data from Israel shows the vaccinated account for nearly all serious cases and deaths.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/israel-vaccinated-tourists/
title: Israel’s travel policy doesn’t view vaccinated passengers as higher risk - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We haven’t been able to find the data from Israel. In the UK, many serious cases and deaths are among vaccinated people. However, this is because the vast majority of the population is vaccinated and vaccines aren’t 100% effective. Vaccinated people have a much lower risk of hospitalisation and death than unvaccinated people.


text: 73% of people under 24 voted to remain.
claimant: David Dimbleby
claim_date: 2017-03-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/how-did-young-people-vote-brexit-referendum/
title: How did young people vote in the Brexit referendum? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-03-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s a reasonable estimate for how many 18-24 year old voters voted Remain in the 2016 EU referendum, based on the results of polls and surveys. There are no official figures, so it’s impossible to say exactly what the true figure is.


text: DWP employs 4,045 to tackle benefit fraud.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2018-06-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/benefit-fraud-tax-inspectors-numbers/
title: Do benefit fraud investigators outnumber super-rich tax inspectors 8:1? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It employs around 4,000 full-time equivalent staff to deal with benefit fraud, as of October 2017. Of these, 1,900 are directly involved in investigations.  An estimated £2 billion in benefits were fraudulently claimed in 2017/18, according to the government.


text: An average household was £1,200 poorer after Rishi Sunak’s first 100 days as Prime Minister.
claimant: Liberal Democrats
claim_date: 2023-02-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/liberal-democrats-1200-rishi-sunak-100-days/
title: Liberal Democrat analysis of Rishi Sunak’s first 100 days contains several flaws - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This number comes from analysis by the Liberal Democrats that contains several significant flaws. Households have become much poorer in 2022/23, but this figure is not reliable.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-06-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/poppy-black-lives-matter-football/
title: Footballers aren’t banned from wearing the poppy - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Football players will display Black Lives Matter on their shirts but weren’t allowed to display the poppy symbol.

textual_rating:
Footballers in the Premier League have displayed the words Black Lives Matter on their shirts recently, and have always been allowed to wear the poppy. Home nations teams were fined in 2016 for wearing the poppy in an international fixture, but this rule has since been changed.


text: New data shows zero increase in suicide figures since lockdown.
claimant: Nadine Dorries
claim_date: 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/suicide-lockdown-increase-nadine-dorries/
title: New data doesn’t definitively show zero increase in suicides across England - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The data, which covers an area of around 9 million people shows, on average, 84 suicides a month before lockdown (in January, February and March), and 85.4 a month in June, July and August. The researchers say this appears to show no rise in suicide "post-lockdown".


text: The UK has the fastest economic growth in the G7.
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:
According to the latest data, the UK had the highest growth in 2021 among G7 nations. However this is partly due to a technicality concerning how the UK measures GDP, which increased the apparent scale of both the fall and the recovery. The UK’s economy has shrunk by about 0.4% since the start of the pandemic, making it the fifth best performing among the G7 nations.


text: Corporation tax revenues have increased since the government reduced the tax rate.
claimant: David Lidington
claim_date: 2017-06-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/corporation-tax-rates-down-receipts/
title: Corporation tax: rates down, receipts up - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-06-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These are both correct. Official forecasts say that receipts could well have been higher if the rates hadn’t been cut.


text: Researchers have found eight nutrients that reverse ADHD.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-05-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nutrients-reverse-adhd/
title: No evidence nutrients ‘reverse’ ADHD - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence ADHD can be reversed. Some studies have looked into the effects of supplements for people with ADHD, but evidence in support of a benefit is currently weak and they are not being used as a cure.


text: The pound is now undervalued, based on the IMF’s recommendations in February and June 2016.
claimant: Joseph Harris
claim_date: 2016-10-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/exchange-rates-and-imf/
title: Was the pound overvalued before the EU referendum? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is uncertain. When IMF said the pound was overvalued, they based their recommendations on the assumption that the UK would vote to remain in the EU. It's open to debate what value the pound should be at now that we've voted to leave.


text: King Charles inherited £650 million tax free.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-05-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/King-Charles-inheritance/
title: Claims about King Charles’s inheritance need context - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This seems to refer to the net assets of the Duchy of Lancaster, which King Charles oversees as the Sovereign and is not subject to inheritance tax. He cannot sell any of the assets for personal gain, but does receive a private annual income from them which was worth £24 million in 2022. He pays voluntary income tax on this money when it is used for non-official purposes. This figure doesn’t include the Queen’s personal assets that he inherited without tax.


claimant: Evening Standard
claim_date: 2016-09-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/most-miserable-borough-london/
title: The most miserable borough in London? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
London's most miserable boroughs revealed to be Greenwich and Lambeth. Redbridge was ranked happiest.

textual_rating:
Don't send flowers yet. The order is right but the difference between the happiness levels in these boroughs, and Redbridge at the top of the scale, is minimal. On average people across all London boroughs rate their happiness at around seven or eight out of 10.


text: State expenditure is at a record high.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2020-01-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/record-public-spending-2020/
title: State spending isn’t at a record high when you consider the size of the economy - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The amount of money spent by the state is the highest it’s ever been in real and cash terms. But is not at a record high when compared to the size of the economy—the most useful measure.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-01-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/steam-covid/
title: There’s no proof steam inhalation cures Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-02T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: There’s no evidence that this is the case.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Inhaling steam can cure Covid-19 by killing the virus that causes it when it is in the sinuses, before it reaches the lungs.


claimant: Joanna Cherry
claim_date: 2017-03-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-membership-spain-scotland/
title: EU membership: Spain vs Scotland - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Spanish government hasn’t said that it would veto an independent Scotland joining the European Union.

textual_rating:
Correct, although it has said that Scotland would have to leave the EU and re-apply from the outside.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ed-sheeran-fugitive/
title: Ed Sheeran lookalike isn’t on the run in Liverpool - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A man named Ronnie Williams is wanted by Merseyside Police for fraud after posing as Ed Sheeran and taking money from churches in exchange for performances.

textual_rating:
This is a satirical post. The man pictured is actually from Chester, and was jailed in 2020 for drug dealing.


text: The new coronavirus does not settle in the air but is grounded so it is not transmitted by air.
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
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The virus can spread via sneeze and cough droplets that can move a short distance through the air and into someone else’s system.


text: Taking the contraceptive pill could “save your life” as fewer women attempt suicide.
claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2022-06-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/contraceptive-pill-suicide-risk/
title: Research didn’t find contraceptive pill reduces risk of suicide - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The research it is based on found women who redeemed a prescription for a hormonal contraceptive were less likely to attempt suicide than those who did not, but it did not find there was a causal relationship.


claimant: Keir Starmer
claim_date: 2021-02-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/keir-starmer-european-medicines-agency/
title: Keir Starmer did want the UK to remain in the European Medicines Agency - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Sir Keir Starmer has never said that he wanted the UK to remain in the European Medicines Agency after Brexit.

textual_rating:
This is not true. He said at least twice that the UK should seek to remain in the European Medicines Agency.


claimant: Britain Stronger In Europe
claim_date: 2016-06-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/what-would-australian-style-points-system-mean-uk-immigration/
title: What would an Australian-style immigration points system mean for the UK? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-06-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The proposal to introduce a points-based system could put up immigration, based on Australia's experience.

textual_rating:
Australia's immigration levels don't tell us anything about what might happen in the UK. Whether or not immigration went up would depend, in part, on how the points-based system was designed by the UK.


text: Leaving the EU means there would have to be border controls between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
claimant: Lord Lawson
claim_date: 2016-04-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-referendum-and-irish-border/
title: The Irish border and Brexit - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s a matter of speculation at the moment. Some sort of customs checks on goods crossing the border would be needed, but not necessarily passport checks or stopping everyone.


text: BBC Question Time hired the son of a BBC producer to pose as a Brexit and Boris Johnson supporter.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/question-time-actor/
title: BBC Question Time did not hire the son of a producer to say pro-Brexit statements - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is incorrect. The man on the show was not Mr Burley’s son, and Burley does not work on Question Time. The claim originated from a spoof account.


claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2018-02-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/small-businesses-and-brexit/
title: Small businesses and Brexit - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
94% of small and medium-size businesses say the Government is ignoring their concerns about how the UK leaves the EU.

textual_rating:
94% of 649 owner-managed firms told a survey the Government wasn't listening to their concerns about Brexit negotiations, or only occasionally listening. The survey wasn’t designed to be representative of all SMEs though.


text: Wildfires are not hot enough to melt glass, yet images of Maui show burnt out cars with no windows.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2023-08-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/maui-hawaii-fires-glass-car-windows/
title: Windowless cars in Maui aftermath pictures don’t mean fires were caused by weapon - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The heat from a car when it’s on fire may cause the windows to break, but there are examples of car windows melting in the heat of a fire. Wildfires can reach temperatures in the range at which glass can melt.


text: According to the Lisbon Treaty, in 2022, all gas, oil and minerals will become owned by the 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:
This is not true. Individual governments decide who can mine and produce these products, and where. The licensing rules for oil and gas are decided by the EU, but the UK is keeping these in place in the case of a no deal Brexit.


claimant: Matt Hancock
claim_date: 2021-06-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/matt-hancock-protective-ring-care-homes/
title: Matt Hancock used the phrase ‘protective ring’ about care homes long before he claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Matt Hancock used the phrase “protective ring” to describe the government’s winter Covid-19 plan, and claims to the contrary misinterpret his comments.

textual_rating:
Mr Hancock appears to have first used this phrase about care homes on 15 May 2020 to describe action taken during the first wave of the pandemic.


text: The monthly allowance for a single person over 25 on Universal Credit is £317.82.
review_date: 2020-08-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/online/universal-credit-monthly-allowance-is-more-than-house-of-lords-daily-allowance-for-now/

title:
Universal Credit monthly allowance is more than House of Lords daily allowance – for now - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This was correct until April 2020, when the rate was set to rise to £323.22. However, it has temporarily risen to £409.89 during the Covid-19 pandemic.


text: Refugees are predominantly male.
claimant: Via Twitter
claim_date: 2015-09-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/ask-full-fact-are-asylum-seekers-mostly-men/
title: Ask Full Fact: are asylum seekers mostly men? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In the EU, 57% of new asylum applicants in the first six months of 2015 were men, 26% were children of both genders, and 18% were women.


text: Masks do more harm than good and they’re considered ineffective by surgeons.
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:
There are rare instances of harm caused by tight-fitting masks but not ordinary masks. While the efficacy of masks in surgery is debated there is some evidence of their benefit.


text: Coronavirus isn’t dangerous as it can be killed by Dettol products.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-dettol/
title: Dettol hasn’t tested its products against the new Wuhan coronavirus yet - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
How dangerous the novel coronavirus is doesn’t relate to whether disinfectants work against it. Coronavirus is a large category of viruses that includes the common cold. Dettol has said its products haven’t been tested against the new virus yet.


claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-and-paid-holidays/
title: How much of your paid holiday is down to the EU? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Over 26 million workers are entitled to paid leave because of the EU, so there are almost 750 million days of paid holiday taken.

textual_rating:
That’s the correct number of employees in the UK, but multiplying them by the number of paid holidays they’re entitled to doesn’t work and doesn’t produce a number that the EU alone can take credit for.


text: Two men were sentenced to eight months in prison for throwing bacon at a mosque.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/burning-poppies-mosque-bacon/
review_date: 2020-02-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Two men did go to prison for throwing bacon at a mosque, while a man was fined for burning poppies - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Mateusz Pawlikowski and Piotr Czak-Zukowski were both sentenced to two eight-month sentences, to run concurrently, for criminal damage and a racial/religious public order offence after verbally abusing and throwing bacon at a worshipper in a mosque.


text: 18 million Americans have been left seriously injured by Covid-19 vaccinations.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-11-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-vaccine-18-million-injured/
title: Claims 18 million Americans ‘seriously injured’ by Covid-19 vaccines are misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
An estimated 18 million Americans vaccinated against Covid-19 sought medical attention at some point after being vaccinated. That estimate is itself uncertain, and even if accurate, would not show that all those cases were caused by the vaccine.


text: 0070031450 A1 is a US patent for BSE (mad cow disease).
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:
There is a patent application number one digit away from this that mentions BSE, but is not a patent for BSE itself.


claimant: Margot James
claim_date: 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-france-defence/
title: The UK and France are the biggest defence spenders in Europe - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-01-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct. Whether the UK or France spends the most depends on exactly how you count it.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK and France are the predominant defence countries in terms of investment and spend across Europe.


text: Universal Credit is working because over 3.3 million more people are in work since 2010.
claimant: Esther McVey
claim_date: 2018-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/universal-credit-not-1000-people-in-work-per-day/
title: Universal Credit isn’t the reason there are 1,000 more people a day in work - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is a misleading link to draw. There are 3.3 million more people in work since 2010, but there is no clear evidence on how many people Universal Credit has got into work.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/how-much-trade-wto-terms/
title: It's not correct that 98% of world trade is done via the WTO - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The WTO’s founding principle is to ensure that free trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible.

textual_rating:
Its founding and guiding principles “remain the pursuit of open borders, the guarantee of most-favoured-nation principle and non-discriminatory treatment by and among members, and a commitment to transparency in the conduct of its activities.”


text: The new coronavirus is 400-500 micro and for this reason wide enough to be stopped by masks.
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
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The virus is 50-200 nanometres wide, and a mask, although sometimes necessary, won’t guarantee that you don’t get Covid-19.


text: All Japanese citizens who have received their Covid-19 vaccine are not permitted to give blood.
claimant: Ian Brown
claim_date: 2021-05-27T00:00:00Z
title: Ian Brown wrong to claim Japan refuses blood from anyone who’s been vaccinated - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/online/ian-brown-wrong-to-claim-japan-refuses-blood-from-anyone-whos-been-vaccinated/

textual_rating:
This is not true. Japanese Red Cross guidelines state anyone who has received a vaccine must only wait 48 hours before they can give blood.


text: The deficit is down by nearly two thirds.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-04-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/deficit-down-two-thirds/
title: Is the deficit down by two thirds? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-04-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct, looking at the deficit as a proportion of GDP. Between 2009/10 and 2015/16 public sector net borrowing decreased from 9.9% of GDP to 3.8%, or by around two thirds.


text: Aldi is offering free boxes of food for those sharing and commenting on a Facebook post.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-12-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ALDI-food-box-offer/
title: Aldi is not giving away free boxes of food to users who like Facebook posts - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These offers have not been shared by the verified Aldi Facebook page and Aldi confirmed the page sharing the offers is not official.


text: Satellites are fake.
claimant: instagram user
claim_date: 2023-02-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/earth-is-spherical-not-flat/
title: The Earth is not flat - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There are many man-made satellites currently in orbit, playing an essential role in common electronic devices.


text: Leaving the EU would cause billions of pounds worth of damage to the NHS budget each year.
claimant: Frances O'Grady, TUC General Secretary
claim_date: 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/how-much-could-leaving-eu-cost-nhs/
title: Would leaving the EU cost the NHS? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-06-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Most economists predict that leaving the EU would harm economic growth and be an overall cost to the government’s budget. Whether this affects spending on the NHS would be depend on future political decisions.


claimant: Matt Thomas
claim_date: 2018-06-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/are-more-people-unable-get-full-time-work/
title: Are more people unable to get full-time work? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The number of UK part-time workers unable to find full-time work increased from an average of 680,000 under the last Labour government to 1.3m under Conservative-led governments.

textual_rating:
That’s broadly correct, but the number of people overall who want more work is close to the lowest it has been in the last 25 years.


text: Drinking warm water is effective for all viruses. Try not to drink liquids with ice.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-claims-symptoms-viral/
title: Viral post about someone’s uncle’s coronavirus advice is not all it’s cracked up to be - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There’s no evidence that the temperature of liquids consumed can either protect you from or cure diseases caused by viruses.


text: Per head, Norway pays almost the same amount into the EU budget as the UK.
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/norway-eu-payments/
title: Norway's EU payments - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-07-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Norway’s payments linked to its relationship with the EU are around two thirds of what the UK pays per head of population, before money comes back. Comparing payments after money comes back is difficult, but seems to narrow the gap still further.


url: https://fullfact.org/europe/beer-mat-brexit-do-facts-stack/
title: Beer mat Brexit: do the facts stack up? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The vast majority of the public strongly objects to the government’s plan to pay £39 billion to Brussels.

textual_rating:
A poll found that 75% of respondents said paying an EU exit fee of up to £40 billion was unacceptable. But responses to these questions depend on how the question is framed.


claimant: The Independent
claim_date: 2018-07-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/violence-and-drugs-prison/
title: Violence and drugs in prison - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct. Assaults on staff were up a quarter from around 7,160 to 9,000.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Violent incidents rose to 31,025, up 16%, of which 9,003 were on staff, which is up by a quarter in the year to March 2018.


text: Normal seasonal colds and flu infections are being mistaken for a Covid-19 “second wave”.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/colds-flu-second-wave/
title: Ordinary colds and flu aren’t the reason for rising Covid-19 cases - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The symptoms are similar in some cases, but Covid-19 can be clearly identified with a positive test. Recent monitoring also shows low levels of influenza-like illnesses in the UK at the moment.


text: 50,000 retail jobs were axed in the first half of this year.
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2018-07-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/how-many-retail-jobs-have-been-lost-year/
title: How many retail jobs have been lost this year? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This refers to businesses in all sectors who publicly announced job losses. Over the long term the number of UK retail jobs appear stable, but jobs in other sectors are growing.


text: There are 26,911 words in the EU regulations on the sale of cabbages.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/cabbage-myth/
title: The cabbage myth returns: EU cabbage regulations don’t have 26,911 words - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is false. It’s a long-running myth that has been around since the 1951, and was originally about a USA government agency.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-10-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/clementine-winston-churchill-street-sweeper-quote/
title: Churchill street sweeper quote has been attributed to many politicians - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Clementine Churchill told her husband Winston Churchill that she could have made a former love interest, a street sweeper, prime minister.

textual_rating:
This anecdote has appeared in many different forms across the internet, with attribution to a number of famous political couples. There is no evidence that this conversation between the Churchills ever actually took place.


text: The last government repatriated 100 powers from Brussels.
claimant: Conservative party
claim_date: 2015-04-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/ask-full-fact-have-100-eu-powers-been-returned-uk/
title: Ask Full Fact: have 100 EU 'powers' been returned to the UK? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-08-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Lisbon Treaty, negotiated under the previous Labour government, allowed the Coalition to reclaim around 100 'powers' (specific legislative acts).


text: The UK economy recorded the fastest growth in the G7.
claimant: Conservative Party
claim_date: 2023-02-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-gdp-growth-g7-february-2023/
title: How does the UK’s GDP growth compare to the G7? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is true when comparing the growth in annual GDP between 2022 and 2021. However, when comparing quarter-on-quarter growth in 2022, the UK is among worst-performing in the G7.


text: The Covid-19 vaccines are experimental.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-19-survival-rate-less-998/
title: Covid-19 survival rate is less than 99.8% - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
All the Covid-19 vaccines being used in the UK have been safety tested and approved for use by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.


text: On average, families will be £2,620 worse off in 2022/23.
claimant: Keir Starmer
claim_date: 2022-03-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-starmer-reeves-2620-cost-of-living/
title: Keir Starmer wrong to say families will be £2,620 worse off this year - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This estimate is based on unreliable assumptions, and it excludes wages and benefits, which are rising. Independent estimates suggest the average household will be worse off in 2022/23, but by significantly less than Labour’s figure of £2,620.


text: Spending on schools is being cut.
claimant: Kevin Courtney
claim_date: 2016-07-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/school-spending-or-down/
title: School spending: up or down? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-07-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Spending per pupil is set to fall in real terms, by 8%, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.


claimant: Amber Rudd, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
claim_date: 2015-06-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/conservative-manifestos-onshore-wind-pledge/
title: The Conservative manifesto's onshore wind pledge - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-10-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Conservative election manifesto gave no indication that the party would stop new onshore wind generators from accessing an existing subsidy.

textual_rating:
The reference to ending "new public subsidy" for onshore wind is ambiguous. It doesn't, on the face of it, reference existing schemes, but has to be seen in the context of the clear aim to stop the construction of new wind farms.


text: Covid-19 vaccines are experimental.
claimant: Godfrey Bloom
claim_date: 2021-04-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/godfrey-bloom-video-makes-false-claims-about-vaccines/
title: Godfrey Bloom video makes false claims about vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Covid-19 vaccines have been through a number of clinical trials which have shown their benefits “far outweigh any currently known side effects.”


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/aircraft-wing-silver-tape/
title: Photograph of aircraft wing covered in silver tape is not a Ryanair plane - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photograph shows the wing of a Ryanair aircraft covered in silver tape with a suggestion that it is regular duct tape.

textual_rating:
Ryanair confirmed this is not one of its planes. The silver tape is ‘speed tape’, which is used in the aviation industry for temporary, minor repairs such as peeling paint.


text: School funding has increased by a minimum of £5,150 per pupil.
claimant: Conservative party
claim_date: 2020-12-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/pupil-funding-conservatives/
title: School funding hasn’t increased by £5k per pupil - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-12-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. £5,150 is the minimum amount secondary schools will receive per pupil, not the level of increase.


text: PCR tests aren't about testing for Covid-19, they are cloning devices.
claimant: The Stew Peters Show
claim_date: 2022-11-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/PCR-test-cloning/
title: PCR tests aren’t being used to clone humans - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
PCR testing works by creating copies of a particular section of DNA, but there’s no evidence that PCR tests are being used or would be used to clone entire humans. PCR tests are effective at testing for Covid-19.


claimant: Richard Tice
claim_date: 2020-12-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/cambridge-pcr-false-positive/
title: Cambridge Covid-19 test results don’t mean PCR tests are inaccurate - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-12-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Of all the positive Covid tests of the 9,000+ students at Cambridge University tested in the week to 6 December, every single one was found to be a false positive after a second test.

textual_rating:
This is correct for one week of testing. Of the ten group swabs which initially tested positive, none tested positive after a second test carried out later. In previous weeks, most positive tests were confirmed by later tests.


text: Mobile coverage in the UK is worse than Romania.
claimant: Ian Blackford
claim_date: 2016-12-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/mobile-phone-coverage-pmqs/
title: Mobile phone coverage - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
4G availability is slightly worse on average in the UK than Romania, according to data from OpenSignal.


text: Covid-19 and influenza reports are being combined.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-10-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/flu-covid-phe-not-combined/
title: Flu and Covid-19 statistics are being published in one report, but not added together - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct, but it will have no effect on the numbers, which will still be shown separately in the document.


text: The International Labour Organisation supports minimum service levels.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-01-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/minimum-service-strikes-compare-EU/
review_date: 2023-02-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
How does the government’s minimum service level legislation compare to strike laws in other European countries? - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The ILO does say minimum service levels could be appropriate, but only in specific situations such as where lives are at risk or for public services of “fundamental importance”. It also says minimum service levels should be set in consultation with workers’ organisations.


text: 550,000 more pensioners were in debt in Great Britain in 2020, compared with 2010.
claimant: the express
claim_date: 2022-02-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/express-labour-financial-debt-pensioners/
title: More older people have financial debt—but fewer are actually struggling - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s true that about 550,000 more people aged 65 or over had some kind of non-mortgage debt by the end of the 2010s, but the number who found that debt to be a problem actually fell over the same period.


claimant: Dr Peter A. McCullough
claim_date: 2021-11-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccine-myocarditis-false/
review_date: 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The risks of myocarditis in children after vaccination are more serious and more prominent than post-Covid.

textual_rating:
Evidence suggests the risk of myocarditis is higher following Covid-19 infection and the clinical outcomes may be worse.


text: Immigrants/refugees living in the UK get a weekly allowance of £250.
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:
Incorrect. People given refugee status in the UK are not entitled to any special allowances, but can claim the same benefits as any UK citizen. Asylum seekers are entitled to £37.75 per week and accommodation if they are homeless and can’t afford food.


text: Daily deaths from heart disease in England were at 174 in October.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/uk-column-covid-deaths/
title: A comparison of daily deaths from Covid-19 and non-Covid causes is incorrect - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Heart disease is an imprecise term, and based on 2019 data, up to 330 daily deaths could be attributed to it.


text: Real wages have been growing faster recently than at any time in the past decade.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2018-11-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/real-wages-arent-growing-their-fastest-rate-decade/
title: Real wages aren’t growing at their fastest rate in a decade - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-11-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Across Great Britain real wages are growing by about 1% annually—the fastest rate in around two years.


claimant: The Daily Politik
claim_date: 2020-08-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/gavin-williamson-fake-quote/
review_date: 2020-08-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said: “The danger is that pupils will be overpromoted into jobs that are beyond their competence.”

title:
Gavin Williamson did not say pupils will be overpromoted into jobs that are beyond their competence - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is not true and does not accurately reflect comments Mr Williamson made in The Daily Telegraph. This incorrect paraphrasing seems to have begun as a joke.


claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/pregnant-breastfeeding-vaccinated/
title: No evidence you shouldn’t breastfeed after Covid-19 vaccination - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect. Being vaccinated while pregnant or breastfeeding is recommended as safe.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Vaccines are incompatible with human life, and being vaccinated while pregnant or breastfeeding may be unsafe.


claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-08-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Mike-Yeadon-video/
title: Video falsely claims that you cannot refuse the Covid-19 vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
mRNA vaccines cause a variable response in amounts of spike protein expressed and therefore some people will produce dangerous amounts and could die, while for others there will be no harm.

textual_rating:
There may be variation in the amount of spike protein that different people produce after vaccination. But this does not appear to be an ‘uncontrolled’ amount, and there is no evidence to suggest people have died because of this.


text: Barcodes can show if a product was made in Russia.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-03-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/barcode-russia-boycott/
title: Barcodes alone can’t show a product was made in Russia - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Barcodes can show where the company that applied for the barcode is based, but that isn’t necessarily the same as where a product was produced.


text: A majority of people want a new Covid-19 lockdown.
claimant: The Independent
claim_date: 2021-11-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-lockdown-poll-independent/
title: Poll didn’t indicate the majority want a new Covid-19 lockdown - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is unsupported by the poll it was based on. 39% of respondents to the Independent poll were in favour of new lockdown measures. We don’t know how representative of Independent readers or the wider public those polled are.


text: EU airports are punishing Britain for Brexit with long queues caused by tougher security checks.
claimant: The Express
claim_date: 2017-08-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/european-airport-delays-brexit-blame/
title: European airport delays—is Brexit to blame? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-08-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The stricter EU border controls were proposed six months before the EU referendum in December 2015 and came into force in April 2017. The controls affect all passengers entering and leaving the European border-free Schengen area, not just UK citizens.


text: Covid-19 vaccination has resulted in “catastrophic death and injury figures”.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/police-vaccines-covid-false/
title: Video filmed at police station is filled with Covid-19 vaccine misinformation - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
With 52 million people currently vaccinated in the UK, there have been 439,578 reports of adverse reactions and 1,972 reports of death following vaccination. However, these reports are not evidence vaccines caused those reactions or deaths. All Covid-19 vaccines are licensed as safe for use in the UK and continuously monitored.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-02-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/iceland-ceo-scam/
title: Iceland’s CEO is not offering free food to people who like a Facebook page - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is false. Iceland has said the post has nothing to do with them.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Iceland’s CEO is offering anyone who shares or comments on a Facebook post a box of essential goods worth £40.


text: An image of a bright yellow fish with a trunk depicts an elephant fish.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/elephant-fish/
title: Viral image doesn’t show an elephant fish - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This image appears to have been altered. The fish pictured is markedly different from recognised species of elephant fish.


text: 66% of coronavirus deaths in France are from care facilities.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Scotland-coronavirus-care-home-deaths/
title: It’s not true that 58% of Covid-19 deaths in Scotland were in care homes - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The ECDC report says 66% of cases reported by long term care facilities were in nursing homes for the elderly. Around 50% of all deaths were in long term care facilities for all age groups.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-09-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/dutch-royal-golden-carriage/
title: Controversial colonial carriage belongs to Dutch not British royal family - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This carriage belongs to the Dutch royal family, not the British.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
One of the British royal family’s carriages has a painting on the side showing black people kneeling before and offering gifts to a white woman on a throne.


claimant: Nadhim Zahawi
claim_date: 2022-07-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/Nadhim-Zahawi-income-tax-proposals/
title: Average household unlikely to save £900 per year under Zahawi’s plan to cut income tax - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Cutting the basic rate of income tax to 19p in 2023 and 18p in 2024 would give households back £900 a year on average.

textual_rating:
Mr Zahawi’s not explained his figures, but the available data suggests on average households will save much less.


text: We’re seeing fewer families in relative 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’s incorrect. The number of children or people living in relative poverty has risen since then, whether or not you include housing costs.


claimant: Robert Buckland MP
claim_date: 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/extended-sentences/
title: More prisoners to be released two thirds of the way through sentence than halfway - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The most serious violent and sexual offenders receive automatic early release from prison halfway through their sentence.

textual_rating:
This is the default sentence (excluding those given life) though judges in England and Wales are already allowed to keep offenders in prison for two thirds of their sentence if they are considered dangerous.


text: There are 16,481 fewer beds in hospitals since 2010.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-01-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-viral-image-factcheck/
title: NHS viral image factcheck - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is in the right ballpark, but it doesn’t seem to be the best comparison. It seems to compare the number of beds at different times of the year, but the number available fluctuates seasonally. Comparing July-September in 2010 and 2017, the decrease in beds available overnight in England is closer to 13,200.


text: US food standards allow for insect fragments in peanut butter.
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 insect fragments in peanut butter, beyond which enforcement action is mandatory.


text: The vaccines won’t allow me to stop wearing a mask.
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:
From 19 July, the legal requirement to wear a face mask in indoor settings or public transport in England ended regardless of vaccination status. Businesses, including transport operators, can still ask their employees and customers to wear face coverings.


text: Photos of Boris Johnson receiving his Covid-19 booster vaccine do not show him being vaccinated.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-12-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-covid-vaccine-booster/
title: Boris Johnson did receive his third Covid-19 vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Mr Johnson was vaccinated, as can be seen in a video tweeted by the prime minister. A blue cap at the end of the needle is part of the injection device, not a safety cap.


text: After nine years of a Conservative government, child poverty is up 50%.
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:
Incorrect. There’s no single measure of child poverty, but depending on which you use it has risen by up to 5% or fallen by up to 3% between 2009/10 and 2017/18, under coalition and Conservative governments.


text: More testing for Covid-19 equals more cases and therefore equals more restrictions.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-01-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/lateral-flow-tests-asymptomatic-transmission/
review_date: 2022-01-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Soft drinks shouldn’t be ‘tested’ with lateral flow tests and asymptomatic transmission is not ‘quackery’ - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Testing identifies new cases. 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 the proportion of positive tests are also used.


text: New research says voice assistants could hinder children’s social and cognitive development.
claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2022-09-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/voice-assistants-children-article/
title: Article on impact of voice assistants on children is not ‘new research’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The journal article mentioned does not contain any original research on the impact of voice assistants on the development of children. It is an opinion piece, and the evidence it cites has been challenged by experts.


text: The government has restored the nurses’ bursary.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2021-02-26T00:00:00Z
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:
The government has reintroduced a non-repayable grant for all student nurses. However, student nurses must continue to pay their own tuition fees, without the contribution they received when the old bursary applied.


text: It will take longer to get from Wakefield to London using HS2 than it does today.
claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/hs2-it-faster/
title: HS2: is it faster? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Today a journey from Leeds to London takes around two hours. Using HS2 and going via Leeds, the journey could be around 25 minutes faster, though this doesn’t account for the time taken to change trains and board HS2, and compares current train times with the fastest possible estimates for HS2.


claimant: Matt Hancock
claim_date: 2020-07-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-lockdown-hancock-claim/
title: When did lockdown begin in the UK? - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The lockdown began on 16 March 2020, when Matt Hancock told the House of Commons that all unnecessary social contact should cease.

textual_rating:
Mr Hancock did say this, but it was not until 23 March 2020 that Boris Johnson told the country that people ‘must’ stay at home and certain businesses must close. Government ministers have previously described this second date as the start of lockdown. There is no official government definition of ‘lockdown’.


text: An injured puppy has been found at the side of the road.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-05-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/hoax-post-puppy-leg-cast/
title: Post about puppy with leg cast is a hoax - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not a real appeal. The picture used in the post has been circulating on Reddit since at least 2017 and has been used in fake posts in the UK, the US and Canada.


text: One in four pregnancies in England and Wales ends in abortion.
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2021-08-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/miscarriage-abortion-data/
title: Abortion rate lower than claimed as miscarriages not factored in - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This data does not include pregnancies which end in miscarriage. If the data factored these in, the proportion of all pregnancies which end in abortion would likely be considerably lower.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-01-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/bugs-chitin-health/
title: Eating bugs hasn’t been shown to cause cancer or lung disease - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Chitin, found in insects, is indigestible and proven to cause health issues like respiratory disease and cancer.

textual_rating:
Chitin can’t be digested by humans, but this does not mean it is a health risk. We can find no evidence in humans of a risk of respiratory problems or cancer from eating insects or chitin itself.


text: The present government has spent more on foreign aid than any previous Labour government.
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
textual_rating:
This is true, at least from the data that goes back to 1970. It has also spent more than any previous Conservative government in that period.


text: Average UK household income rose from £20,448 in 1990 to £37,100 in 2020.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-02-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/house-prices-1990-2020/
title: House price growth has outstripped income growth—but not by much - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is close to correct, if you adjust the 1990 figure for inflation. This is the disposable income (i.e. after taxes and benefits).


text: Most renters live in homes that have been purchased with a buy-to-let mortgage
claimant: Angela Rayner
claim_date: 2023-07-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/angela-rayner-buy-to-let/
title: Most renters do not live in buy-to-let properties - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This claim is technically incorrect, as it holds true only for the private rented sector, not for overall rentals. When social renters are included in the total, around a third of renters live in buy-to-let properties.


claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2023-08-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/asylum-application-withdrawals/
title: BBC article overstated increase in asylum application withdrawals - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The number of asylum claims being withdrawn has rocketed from just 60 cases to 15,308 in the year ending June 2023.

textual_rating:
These figures aren’t correct. The number of people whose asylum claims were withdrawn in the year to June 2022 was 4,044, compared with 15,244 in the year to June 2023. The number of cases withdrawn was lower, as cases can involve more than one person.


text: NHS hospitals have been hit with a 21% rise in business rates.
claimant: Veteran Politics UK
claim_date: 2018-09-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-and-private-hospitals-who-pays-business-rates/
title: NHS and private hospitals: who pays business rates? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s what was projected when changes to business rates came in last year. A more up to date estimate puts the 2019/20 bill at around 24% higher than in 2016/17.


text: Once a lump arises you should just starve the cancer and fast with selected herbs and sea moss.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-07-25T00:00:00Z
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
textual_rating:
There’s no evidence that you can starve cancer through a specific diet or natural remedies. If you are concerned about a lump, you should visit your GP.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-07-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/WEF-animal-charities/
title: The World Economic Forum has not planned for a future without pets or animal charities - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
According to the future the World Economic Forum has planned, we won't need animal charities because we'll cease to have pets and eat meat.

textual_rating:
We couldn’t find any examples of the WEF advocating an end to pets or animal charities, although it is true that the WEF supports eating less meat.


text: The vaccination programme has overwhelmed the NHS.
claimant: The Daily Expose
claim_date: 2021-06-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/NHS-overwhelmed-vaccines-hospital-patients/
title: No evidence Covid-19 vaccines are 'overwhelming' NHS services - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We have seen no evidence to suggest this is the case. Both the Royal College of GPs and NHS Providers say the concerns in the article have not been reflected by their members, although they are dealing with significant operational pressures for other reasons.


text: A video shows the Taliban throwing people from a plane.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-08-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/afghanistan-taliban-plane-kabul/
title: Video of people falling from plane in Kabul shows a US aircraft - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The footage actually shows a number of people falling from a US aircraft after clinging to the outside. The US Air Force, which owns and operates the aircraft, has since confirmed it is reviewing the incident.


claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2021-06-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/who-alcohol-women/
title: The WHO hasn’t said women should be banned from drinking - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The World Health Organisation said that women of childbearing age should be banned from drinking alcohol.

textual_rating:
This isn’t accurate. The WHO have said that “appropriate attention should be given to prevention of [...] drinking among pregnant women and women of childbearing age”. The WHO told Full Fact that it does not recommend abstinence for all women of childbearing age.


text: There are 430,000 more people in employment than before the pandemic began.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2022-02-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/february-2022-boris-johnson-employment/
title: Boris Johnson repeats misleading claim on number of people in employment - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. The number of payrolled employees is up 436,000 but the total number in employment (including the self-employed)  is down 588,000.


text: Grammar schools don’t benefit most pupils.
claimant: John McDonnell
claim_date: 2016-09-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/grammar-schools-benefit-some-pupils-majority-do-worse/
title: Grammar schools benefit some pupils but the majority do worse - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The advantage for pupils who attend grammar schools is outweighed by the disadvantage for those who don’t.


text: A study shows that drinking lots of tea and coffee reduces the risk of stroke and dementia.
claimant: The Daily Telegraph
claim_date: 2021-11-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/tea-coffee-dementia-stroke/
title: Study doesn’t show tea and coffee cause lower dementia and stroke risk - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This study shows that there was a link between a moderate intake of tea and coffee a reduced risk of certain types of stroke and dementia. However, the study did not show that tea and coffee intake was definitely the cause. It also found that very high tea and coffee intake was linked with a higher risk than drinking none.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-05-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/pfizer-document-vaccine-breastfeeding-pregnancy/
title: ‘Pfizer document’ doesn’t show company admitting vaccines unsafe in pregnancy - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A new Pfizer document shows the company admitting its Covid-19 vaccine is not safe for use in pregnancy or breastfeeding.

textual_rating:
This is not a Pfizer document, nor is it new. It was published by the UK government in December 2020. Evidence from studies conducted during the vaccine rollout show the vaccine to be safe for use during pregnancy and breastfeeding.


text: Closing the Renewables Obligation to onshore wind early will save households 30p a year.
claimant: Baroness Worthington
claim_date: 2015-10-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/how-much-will-closing-renewables-obligation-early-save-your-bills/
title: How much will closing the Renewables Obligation early save on your bills? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-12-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The government's best estimate is that the early closure will cut the average household's electricity bill by 30p, but there's some uncertainty to this estimate.


text: MPs have had a real-terms pay rise of about 30% since 2008/09.
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
textual_rating:
This is not correct. MPs’ salaries rose by 29% between 2008/09 and 2021/22, but this is in cash terms. In real terms, factoring in RPI inflation, MPs’ pay has fallen.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-07-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/sky-news-fake-screenshot-climate/
title: ‘Sky News’ screenshot linking vaccines with climate change is a fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is not true. Sky News has confirmed that the screenshot of the supposed article is fake.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Sky News published an article headlined: “UK Heatwave: Vaccines could be the way to battle the climate crises!”


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 (although so does leaving).
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Remaining in the EU gives us the right to send people from other countries home if they can’t support themselves.


text: BBC News reported that 350 people attended the anti-lockdown protest in London on 29 May 2021.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-05-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-bbc-screenshot/
title: The BBC did not claim 350 people attended anti-lockdown protests - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
BBC News did not say this. The claim is based on a screenshot from a year earlier with an altered caption.


text: Poverty is being redefined to remove any reference to income.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2015-12-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/ask-full-fact-poverty-being-redefined-remove-any-reference-income/
title: Ask Full Fact: is poverty being redefined to remove any reference to income? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-12-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A bill going through Parliament contains plans to replace existing income indicators of child poverty with ones that focus on worklessness and educational attainment. The annual statistics on the income measures will still be published but they won't be the government's main poverty indicators.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-09-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-altered-image/
title: This image of the Prime Minister has been altered - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: They did not. These words have been added digitally.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Teachers at a school which Boris Johnson visited spelled out the words “Fuck Boris” on a wall which the Prime Minister was interviewed in front of.


claimant: Andrew Bridgen
claim_date: 2022-12-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Andrew-Bridgen-Covid-19-vaccines/
review_date: 2022-12-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There have been more reported deaths and adverse reactions following mRNA vaccination in 18 months than there has been to every conventional vaccine administered worldwide for the last 50 years.

title:
Andrew Bridgen wrong to say Covid-19 mRNA vaccines aren’t recommended while pregnant or breastfeeding - Full Fact

textual_rating:
While the source for this is unclear, data from the US Centres for Disease Control suggests this is plausible, when looking at reports of adverse events. However, these reported events were not necessarily caused by vaccination.


text: The UKIP leader Paul Nuttall has said that he wants to privatise the NHS.
claimant: Paul Nuttall
claim_date: 2017-02-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/ukip-and-nhs/
title: UKIP and the NHS - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Mr Nuttall has been critical of the NHS model of a publicly-owned healthcare provider in the past. He has since said that he thinks there could be more private sector involvement in the NHS. UKIP’s policy is still for an NHS that’s free at the point of use.


text: The EU has set a 15% overall target for UK energy consumption from renewable sources in 2020.
claimant: Lord Howell of Guildford
claim_date: 2015-09-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uks-renewable-energy-target/
title: The UK's renewable energy target - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-11-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK does have a 15% overall target. It also has a 10% target for renewables in transport energy consumption in 2020. The exact way in which the 15% target is met is up to the UK, so long as the 10% transport sub-target is met.


text: Mercury is used as a preservative in vaccines and is not safe.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-04-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/thiomersal-mercury-vaccines/
title: The mercury-based chemical found in some UK vaccines is not dangerous - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A mercury based chemical (and not the same one that can build up in the body after ingesting infected fish) is present in some non-standard UK vaccines. But it is not harmful in those amounts.


text: Asylum seekers in the UK can choose whether they want a flat, house, hostel or bed and breakfast.
claimant: Katie Hopkins
claim_date: 2019-01-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/we-factchecked-viral-video-asylum-seekers/
title: We factchecked a viral video on asylum seekers - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The government specifies that those eligible for support can’t choose where they live and may be placed in any of these types of housing. They are only eligible if they are homeless or don’t have money to buy food.


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 shot contains hydrocortisone, which may cause bone weakness, adrenal fatigue, weight gain and diabetes.

textual_rating:
Two UK flu vaccines are made using hydrocortisone, so there may be traces of it in the final product. The problems listed here are potentially side effects of taking actual hydrocortisone tablets over the long term.


url: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/nhs-docs-fake-quote/
title: This quote about selling NHS assets does not appear in the leaked UK-US trade documents - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-12-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This quote is false. The documents do not contain this.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The leaked UK-US trade documents contain the quote: “The USA reserves the right to withdraw all trade, aid and communication upon the non-compliance of the UK to allow open discussions about the sale of all assets within and partnered with the National Health Service”.


text: An independent review of the vaccines advises that all vaccination should be halted.
claimant: HART Group
claim_date: 2021-06-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Hart-Newsround-report-misleading/
title: Critical report on BBC Newsround story is misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The “independent review” claims all reports of side effects after vaccination were caused by vaccination which is unproven.


text: Nine in 10 girls experience sexist name-calling or are sent explicit photos or videos.
claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2021-06-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/ofsted-sexual-abuse-schools/
title: How common is sexual abuse in schools? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This comes from a survey that asked girls what they thought was happening among people their age—not what had happened to them personally. Sexual harassment and abuse of girls appears to be common, but the nine in 10 figure is not reliable.


claimant: Steve Barclay
claim_date: 2019-08-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-law-repeal-not-set-in-stone/
title: The government has not just “set in stone” the repeal of the European Communities Act - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The enacting of Section 1 of the European Union Withdrawal Act underlines that we are leaving the EU on October 31.

textual_rating:
Exit day is currently set for 31 October but it could still be amended, under other sections of the Act, as has happened twice already. Enacting section 1 of the Act does not change this.


text: The UK has spent 100 million on security at Calais in the last three years.
claimant: Munira Mirza
claim_date: 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/uk-spending-security-calais/
title: How much is the UK spending on security at Calais? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-01-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We haven’t seen evidence to confirm this. It's from a news report apparently based on an unpublished government briefing to journalists. An agreement on Thursday now means the figure is closer to £150m and covers others French ports as well.


text: Sudden Adult Death Syndrome deaths are covering up a genocide caused by the Covid-19 vaccines.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-10-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/sads-covid-genocide/
title: Deaths due to SADS aren’t covering up ‘genocide’ caused by Covid-19 vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence that the Covid-19 vaccines are causing people to die of SADS, or that deaths due to the Covid-19 vaccine are being misreported as SADS as part of a cover up for a “genocide” caused by the vaccines. The number of deaths due to SADS did not increase in England and Wales following the vaccine rollout in 2021.


claimant: David King
claim_date: 2020-07-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/independent-sage-27000/
title: Independent SAGE’s estimated death rate is too high - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty, plans for the current rate of Covid-19 infections and deaths to continue.

textual_rating:
This is a misunderstanding of what Professor Whitty said. He was talking about hygiene rules continuing, not levels of infection staying the same.


claimant: The Expose
claim_date: 2021-11-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/daily-expose-vaccine-uptake-case-count/
title: Vaccines don’t cause Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Covid-19 case numbers are highest in countries with high vaccination rates, showing that vaccines increase case numbers.

textual_rating:
Vaccines reduce the risk of getting Covid-19. This analysis is not proof of anything, though it is plausible that vaccination leads people to socialise more and so cases increase as a result.


text: Boris Johnson said this quote about Liverpudlians “seeing themselves whenever possible as victims”.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-06-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-liverpool-hillsborough/
title: Did Boris Johnson write this quote about Liverpudlians and Hillsborough? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Mr Johnson was editor of that publication, but a different journalist has claimed responsibility for writing it.


claimant: Twitter/The Sun
claim_date: 2021-04-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/astrazeneca-vaccine-risk-comparison/
review_date: 2021-04-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The chance of getting a blood clot after the AstraZeneca vaccine is almost the same as being killed by a cow.

title:
The chance of being killed by a cow and other AstraZeneca vaccine risk comparisons explained - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The risk of getting a blood clot after vaccination is higher than the risk of being killed by a cow, but the risk of dying from a blood clot after vaccination is about the same as being killed by a cow.


claimant: Britain Stronger in Europe
claim_date: 2015-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/british-students-and-eu/
title: British students and the EU - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Since 1987 more than 200,000 UK students have studied or worked in Europe on the Erasmus exchange programme, 15,000 in 2012 alone.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/pre-existing-conditions-covid/
title: Misleading claims on pre-existing conditions and Covid-19 deaths go viral - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Official NHS data to 16 July shows there were 1,379 Covid-19 deaths in which there were no pre-existing conditions.

textual_rating:
That is how many people without pre-existing conditions died in hospitals in England having had Covid-19, as of 16 July.


text: Studies show egg yolks significantly increase immunity against Covid-19.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-02-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/eggs-covid-antibodies/
title: Egg yolks not shown to fight Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Researchers have found that inoculating chickens leads to Covid antibodies in their egg yolks. This doesn’t mean normal eggs have an anti-Covid effect when eaten, and we have no evidence that these antibodies can be used clinically.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-05-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-missing-dog-norfolk/
title: No evidence pictured dog has really been found at different locations across the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photograph shows an unchipped dog that has been found in the road at various locations across the UK.

textual_rating:
There’s no evidence this dog has actually been found in the locations claimed. Multiple other versions of the post have been shared in groups across the UK and in other countries.


text: The removal of cremation form 5 means that people are being cremated against their family’s wishes.
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 cremation form 5 has been suspended, but this does not mean people are being cremated against their wishes or the wishes of their family. In fact, the Coronavirus Act specifically prevents this.


claimant: Christopher Chope
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 booster vaccines have not been tested on humans at all during studies; they were tested only on mice.

textual_rating:
While it is true for the bivalent booster in the US, it is not the case for any boosters in the UK—it’s not clear exactly what was being referred to in the debate. The MHRA has confirmed that both the original boosters and bivalent forms (which target both the original SARS-CoV-2 and the BA.1 Omicron strain) in use in the UK were tested on humans.


text: A Swedish woman was savagely beaten by a Muslim migrant after she asked him to stop groping her.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/we-dont-know-who-attacked-swedish-woman/
title: We don’t know who attacked this Swedish woman - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A woman was physically attacked in a nightclub in Sweden after she tried to stop a man sexually assaulting her. Her description of the attacker did not mention his religion or if he was a migrant, and his identity remains unknown, so there is no basis for the claim that he was a Muslim migrant.


text: Monkeypox is linked to the chimpanzee virus used in the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/monkeypox-chimpanzee-covid19-virus/
title: Modified chimpanzee virus in AstraZeneca vaccine isn’t linked to monkeypox - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Although the vaccine contains a modified virus that usually infects chimpanzees, this cannot lead to monkeypox or any other disease in humans.


text: A 5G test in the Netherlands resulted in the death of 297 birds.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/birds-5G-netherlands/
title: Hundreds of birds were found dead in the Netherlands but it had nothing to do with 5G - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Almost 300 starlings were found dead in a park in the Hague in October 2018. There were no 5G tests in The Hague in October 2018. Mass starling death is not unheard of.


text: You are not being given an option to refuse the vaccines.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-08-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Mike-Yeadon-video/
title: Video falsely claims that you cannot refuse the Covid-19 vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. Consent must be obtained before the vaccines are given and people with ‘capacity’ have the right to refuse. There are special procedures to follow regarding individuals who do not have capacity to make this decision.


text: Rigevidon can cause blood clots, strokes, and burst aneurysms.
claimant: Maria Aleem
claim_date: 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/what-are-possible-side-effects-contraceptive-pill-rigevidon/
title: What are the possible side effects of the contraceptive pill Rigevidon? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Rigevidon, along with other combined contraceptive pill brands, can sometimes cause these issues, although rarely.


text: The National Audit Office said that schools face real term cuts of 8% by 2019/20.
claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2017-01-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/schools-will-have-less-spend-pupil-2020/
title: Schools will have less to spend per pupil by 2020 - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The National Audit Office said that although overall spending on schools will increase between 2014/15 and 2019/20, increasing pupil numbers and staff costs mean they will need to spend 8% less per pupil.


text: The UK’s biggest export market is Germany.
claimant: Richard Reed
claim_date: 2018-06-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/trading-places-who-are-uk-and-germanys-biggest-trade-partners/
title: Trading places: Who are the UK and Germany’s biggest trade partners? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The USA is the UK’s biggest export market. We exported almost £100 billion of goods and services to the USA in 2016. Germany is our second biggest export market at around £49 billion.


claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2016-11-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/refugee-rape-acquitted-didnt-speak-german-putin/
title: Was a refugee acquitted of rape because he didn't speak German? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An Iraqi refugee in Austria had his conviction for raping a 10-year-old overturned because he didn’t realise the victim was saying no.

textual_rating:
The conviction was set aside by an appeal court, citing concerns about whether force had been used, which is a requirement for a rape conviction in Austria. But a conviction for serious sexual assault of a minor stands, and there will be a re-trial on the rape charge.


text: BBC Children in Need has given Black Lives Matter £10 million.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-08-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/children-in-need-blm/
title: Children in Need is not donating £10 million to Black Lives Matter - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is incorrect. Children in Need has pledged £10 million over ten years to benefit young black people in the UK. The money is not specifically going to Black Lives Matter.


claimant: Mail Online
claim_date: 2023-07-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/diabetes-intermittent-fasting-breakfast-study/
title: Food study didn’t show that later breakfasts raise diabetes risk - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A study of eating times and diabetes shows you can reduce your risk of developing the disease by eating earlier meals.

textual_rating:
The study suggested an association, meaning that people who eat earlier meals were less likely to get diabetes. This doesn’t mean that eating earlier can reduce the risk, as the researchers have confirmed.


text: The Prime Minister said he wanted to get inflation down to 2% by the end of the year.
claimant: Sky News
claim_date: 2023-08-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/halving-inflation-target/
title: Will the government meet its inflation pledge? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
2% is the inflation target which the government has set the Bank of England since 2003. In January, the Prime Minister pledged to “halve inflation” by the end of the year.


text: The UK's Syrian refugee programme is slightly ahead of schedule.
claimant: Brandon Lewis
claim_date: 2018-02-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/syrian-refugees-uk/
title: Two UK schemes have resettled 11,000 Syrian refugees - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-02-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Roughly correct. Just over 10,000 refugees from the Syrian conflict have come to the UK via a government scheme from September 2015 to December 2017. The target for the scheme is 20,000 by May 2020. Individuals arriving before July 2017 had Humanitarian Protection, rather than refugee status.


claimant: Mail Online
claim_date: 2017-10-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/do-doctors-now-need-ask-about-your-sexual-orientation/
title: Are doctors going to be forced to ask about your sexual orientation? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-10-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
All patients over the age of 16 attending a doctor or hospital appointment in England must now be asked about their sexual orientation.

textual_rating:
That’s not quite right, these new guidelines aren’t compulsory and it’s up to individual organisations whether they collect it. It’s still predicted to be introduced widely.


text: The UK has created more jobs than the rest of the EU put together.
claimant: David Cameron
claim_date: 2016-06-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/has-uk-created-more-jobs-rest-eu-combined/
title: Has the UK created more jobs than the rest of the EU combined? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-06-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK has seen a larger rise in employment than the rest of the EU combined. Some countries have seen employment fall since 2010, so the comparison isn't that useful.


text: The Royal Mail is part-owned by the German government.
claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2018-01-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/who-owns-britains-trains-energy-postal/
title: Who owns Britain’s trains, energy and postal service? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-01-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We’ve not seen any information on who all of the Royal Mail’s shareholders are and have asked them for more information.


text: 100,000 children have not returned to school since the start of the pandemic.
claimant: Evening Standard
claim_date: 2021-07-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/evening-standard-missing-school-children-covid/
title: Figure of 100,000 children missing from school is out of date - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not a current figure, so we can’t use it to describe how many pupils have remained absent from school since the start of the pandemic. The Centre for Social Justice found 93,514 pupils missed more than 50% of school sessions between September to December 2020.


claimant: Gerry Simpson
claim_date: 2016-07-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/refugees-lebanon-and-uk/
title: Refugees in Lebanon and the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-07-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Lebanon, a country the size of Devon and Cornwall, shelters 1.5 million refugees compared to 150,000 in the UK.

textual_rating:
Lebanon is the size of those counties combined, and the figures are in the right ballpark, although Lebanon’s refugee population is unusual in that many have been “refugees” for decades or from birth, which isn’t possible in the UK.


claimant: Suella Braverman
claim_date: 2023-03-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/suella-braverman-asylum-backlog-labour/
title: The asylum backlog is far higher now than when Labour left government - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If we “go down the path of comparing asylum backlogs”, the Labour party will be “found wanting”, and the current backlog bears no comparison with what was left by the Labour party in 2010.

textual_rating:
There were 166,261 people waiting to have their asylum claims decided at the end of December, according to the latest published data, including 160,919 awaiting an initial decision. This is far higher than the total of 18,954 people in June 2010, which included 9,441 awaiting an initial decision.


text: Those earning under £34,000 are not affected by the National Insurance (NI) rise.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-04-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/working-pensioners-NI-increase/
title: Working pensioners will have to pay the health and social care levy from 2023 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
People earning around this amount will probably end up paying about the same across 2022/23 as they did in 2021/22. Those earning less will see their overall NI bill for the year decrease compared to 2021/22.


text: Videos show flucloxacillin medication contains something that makes it magnetic.
claimant: Faceb
claim_date: 2021-12-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/flucloxacillin-magnetic/
title: Flucloxacillin capsules contain iron oxide which may make them magnetic - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We cannot verify the provenance of the videos, but the MHRA told Full Fact that the magnet is most likely attracting the iron oxide food colouring used in the capsule shell.


text: Apeel Sciences is funded by Bill Gates and has been endorsed by the World Economic Forum.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-04-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/apeel-sciences-edipeel-fruit-vegetables-safety/
review_date: 2023-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Facebook posts confuse ‘Apeel’ fruit and vegetable preservative with hard surface cleaner - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Apeel Sciences was awarded almost $1m in funding by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2015. The company’s CEO, James Rogers, was named a WEF Young Global Leader in 2020 and has previously attended the Forum’s annual summit in Davos.


text: Drivers of non-electric vehicles will be fined £12 every time they drive past a ULEZ camera.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-08-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/electric-vehicles-ulez-fines/
title: You don’t need an electric vehicle to comply with ULEZ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. Most petrol and diesel vehicles already comply with ULEZ standards. For those that do not, a £12.50 daily charge is levied.


claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2021-03-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/levelling-up-fund-index/
title: Details missing on levelling up funding - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The index of economic need, underpinning prioritisation for the “Levelling Up Fund” has been transparently published by MHCLG.

textual_rating:
A list of local authority areas grouped prioritised according to economic need has been published. But no real detail as to how that was calculated has been published


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-03-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/women-clapham-parsons-green/
title: Clapham protester is not same woman injured in Parsons Green Tube attack - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is false. They are different women.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The woman arrested at the Clapham vigil for Sarah Everard is the same woman who was injured in the 2017 Parsons Green Tube attack.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-10-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/world-economic-forum-engineering-climate/
title: The World Economic Forum didn’t say it’s engineering the climate - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An article published by the World Economic Forum confirms that the organisation is engineering the climate.

textual_rating:
This is not what the article claims. It simply describes some of the technology being developed to counteract global warming.


claimant: Laura Perrins
claim_date: 2017-02-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/brexit-and-economic-apocalypse/
title: Brexit and economic apocalypse - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Predictions of negative economic consequences immediately after a vote to leave the EU haven’t come to pass.

textual_rating:
That’s correct. Predicted lower growth and an emergency budget didn’t happen, although sterling has fallen significantly. Economists still expect there to be an impact on growth in the coming years, not least after we actually leave the EU.


claimant: The Mail on Sunday
claim_date: 2022-08-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/small-boats-channel-albania/
review_date: 2022-08-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Figures from a leaked report showing that 37.5% of small boat arrivals are Albanian vindicates Priti Patel’s view that the majority of those crossing the Channel are ‘effectively economic migrants’ and ‘not genuine asylum seekers’.

title:
Leaked report doesn’t ‘vindicate’ view that most people crossing the Channel on small boats are 'economic migrants' - Full Fact

textual_rating:
We have not seen a copy of the leaked report, but the data in it, as presented by the Mail on Sunday, is not sufficient to vindicate this view as it isn’t comprehensive. The Home Office has not published comprehensive data to substantiate this claim, despite requests to do so. The Home Office also declined to comment on the leaked report.


text: Obesity is more a determinant of how you're going to handle Covid than anything.
claimant: Mark Steyn
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:
Studies have shown that weight is an important underlying risk factor for serious Covid-19 infections. However, age is the biggest predictive factor for serious illness.


claimant: Andy Burnham
claim_date: 2021-07-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/andy-burnham-mayor-manchester-masks-misquote/
title: New study estimates mask wearing could cut R number by 25%, not 0.25 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
According to a University of Bristol study, mask-wearing by large numbers of people can reduce the R rate by 0.25.

textual_rating:
The study estimated that if everyone in a given population wore a mask it could lead to a median reduction of the R number of 25%, not a flat reduction of 0.25.


claimant: Claire Perry
claim_date: 2018-07-12T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2018-07-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
70% of Conservative constituencies and 60% of Labour constituencies voted to Leave in the EU referendum.

url:
https://fullfact.org/europe/did-majority-conservative-and-labour-constituencies-vote-leave-eu-referendum/

title:
Did a majority of Conservative and Labour constituencies vote to leave in the EU referendum? - Full Fact

textual_rating:
These figures are roughly correct, although we don’t know for sure how many parliamentary seats voted – all we have are estimates.


text: Between 95,000 and 135,000 school pupils did not return to school this term.
claimant: Joe.co.uk
claim_date: 2021-04-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/135000-children-missing-school-autumn-2021/
title: Claim that up to 135,000 children have not returned to school needs more context - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This claim is missing context. It is an estimate based on a snapshot of attendance on just one day in September 2021, and does not record persistent absence. The data we have can’t be used to reliably show the number of pupils that haven’t returned to school at all this term.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/magna-carta-council-tax/
title: Article 61 of the Magna Carta doesn’t mean you don’t have to pay council tax - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Council tax is unlawful. The Crown has no lawful authority to make demands whilst Article 61 Magna Carta 1215 is in effect. Council tax is unlawful.

textual_rating:
Article 61 of Magna Carta is not in effect. Council tax is not unlawful, and was brought into effect by a 1992 Act of Parliament.


text: If women in the UK reached their full economic potential it would be worth £23 billion.
claimant: Sandi Toksvig
claim_date: 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
title: The pay gap, record employment and an extra £23 billion to GDP: women and the workplace - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-09-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/economy/pay-gap-record-employment-and-extra-23-billion-gdp-women-and-workplace/

textual_rating:
This figure is from 2006. Some of the gains may have increased with the size of the economy, and higher prices mean that the cash figures would be larger. Some of the gains may already  have been achieved.


claimant: Byline Times
claim_date: 2019-09-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/short-positions/
title: We think there's a big error in that viral article about hedge funds and Brexit - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There was a major increase in the number of “short” positions taken by UK hedge funds when Boris Johnson ran for Conservative leader.

textual_rating:
We cannot identify any such increase; this seems to be an error caused by looking at incomplete data.


text: Food bank use rose by 2,612% while David Cameron was Prime Minister.
claimant: Zarah Sultana
claim_date: 2022-03-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/zarah-sultana-david-cameron-food-banks/
title: 2,612% rise in food bank use under David Cameron needs context - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The number of parcels provided by the Trussell Trust network did rise by roughly this amount. This may not reflect the increase in provision by all food banks, and may not be a reliable indicator of increased need.


text: MPs are not following workplace Covid guidance such as wearing masks.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-09-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/parliament-distancing-covid/
title: This is what the guidelines are for social distancing in parliament. - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Covid guidance for MPs attending parliament does not involve wearing masks, but does include 2 metre distancing and limits on attendance.


text: There are 2.1 million A&E visits a year for self-treatable conditions.
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2018-02-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/18-million-gp-appointments-pharmacists/
title: Could 18 million GP appointments be seen by pharmacists? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-02-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
2.1 million A&E visits in England received no treatment in 2016/17. It’s not possible to say from this how many could have been self-treated.


text: Drivers should give five feet when overtaking cyclists.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-01-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/highway-code-changes/
title: Highway Code changes infographic needs context - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct for speeds up to 30 miles per hour. At higher speeds, the Highway Code says drivers should give cyclists more space.


text: Social media users could win a caravan in return for comments and shares on a Facebook post.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-05-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-caravan-giveaway-happy-campers/
title: Misleading caravan giveaway shared thousands of times on Facebook - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence this is a real giveaway, and the company that shared the photos have confirmed they are not affiliated with the post in any way.


text: The government hasn’t protected the police budget.
claimant: Diane Abbott
claim_date: 2018-05-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/police-budgets-numbers-and-community-policing/
title: Police budgets, numbers and community policing - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The England and Wales police budget has been protected since 2015 with increased local taxation making up for reductions in central government funding. If local taxation for the police is maximised in future, police funding overall will be protected. From 2010 to 2015 the police budget wasn’t protected and fell.


text: Funding for pensions has increased significantly in recent years.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2020-01-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/record-public-spending-2020/
title: State spending isn’t at a record high when you consider the size of the economy - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The state pension has increased in recent years, but because the pension age has increased, fewer people are now eligible for the pension. So while state spending on pensioner benefits has risen since 2010 it has remained stable in the last few years.


text: The government is cutting waiting lists.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-05-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/rishi-sunak-cutting-waiting-lists/
title: The overall NHS waiting list continues to rise - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s true some specific NHS waiting lists, such as the list of patients waiting more than 18 months for treatment, have fallen. But the overall number of cases where someone is waiting for consultant-led elective treatment in England is at a record high.


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
text:
Covid-19 is not a virus, but a bacterium being amplified by 5G which causes inflammation and hypoxia.

textual_rating:
Covid-19 patients can get secondary infections from bacteria. Hypoxia and types of inflammation can be symptoms of Covid-19. There’s no proof Covid-19 is in any way related to 5G.


claimant: Macmillan Cancer Support
claim_date: 2022-07-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/macmillan-hearing-loss-ad/
title: Not all people with hearing loss are unable to access extra cancer care help - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There are 11 million people in the UK who are deaf or hard of hearing. After a cancer diagnosis, they aren't able to receive the extra help they need.

textual_rating:
There are around 11 million people in the UK with some form of hearing loss. However, the majority may not have hearing loss to the extent that they would require extra help to access cancer care, or that they would be unable to receive this extra help.


text: The deficit in trade with the EU has narrowed by £4.4 billion to £3.2 billion.
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
textual_rating:
The trade deficit with the whole world, not just the EU, fell to £3.2 billion in the three months to April 2021.


text: French wages are 25% higher.
claimant: Twitter account
claim_date: 2023-01-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-france-pension-comparisons/
title: How wages and pensions in the UK and France compare - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The OECD estimates that in 2021 the average annual wage in the UK was £39,184, while the average annual wage in France was €40,115 (approx. £35,000). When taking into account the difference in price levels, the average wages of both countries are worth roughly the same.


text: The roads in north Wales are better than in Buckinghamshire.
claimant: Dominic Grieve
claim_date: 2018-06-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/england-v-wales-how-bad-are-roads/
title: England v Wales: how bad are the roads? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In Buckinghamshire, 4% of A roads, and 5% of B and C roads are in poor condition. In Gwynedd in North Wales, 11% of A, B and C roads are in poor condition. We don’t know if these figures are directly comparable.


text: 93% of the world is not in the EU.
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/beer-mat-brexit-do-facts-stack/
title: Beer mat Brexit: do the facts stack up? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, looking at the world’s population. About 78% of the world’s economic output is estimated to be outside of the EU.


text: Fewer people have died from Covid-19 in the past 40 days than one day of cancer deaths.
claimant: James Melville
claim_date: 2021-07-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/james-melville-covid-cancer-twitter/
title: Daily cancer deaths not higher than those from Covid during last 40 days - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The data used when the claim was made actually shows the number of people over a 40 day period who died of Covid-19 was higher than the average daily cancer death rate.


text: An autistic boy named Brayden has gone missing with his dog and the police have been contacted.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-01-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-boy-and-dog-brayden/
title: Police quash Facebook rumours of missing boy named Brayden - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. None of the police forces in the areas where the posts appear have received reports of missing persons by that name.


text: Harry Styles was photographed wearing a shirt that said “all tories are c****.”
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-06-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/harry-styles-t-shirt/
review_date: 2022-06-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This picture has been edited. The original shows he was wearing a black t-shirt with no text.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Picture of Harry Styles wearing t-shirt with obscenity about ‘Tories’ has been Photoshopped - Full Fact


text: Rio 2016 was the UK's best overseas Olympics.
claimant: Evening Standard
claim_date: 2016-08-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/olympic-games-factchecked/
title: The Olympic Games, factchecked - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-08-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct. The only times the UK has won more gold medals was in 1908 and 2012 when the games were held in London.


text: There are 1,012 rapists and 343 killers on the run.
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2017-03-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/how-many-suspects-are-wanted-police/
title: How many suspects are wanted by police? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These are not convicted rapists or killers. This is the number of records on the Police National Computer relating to people wanted in relation to these crimes in England and Wales, as of August last year. Not all wanted suspects will be on the database and some who are there could be counted twice.


text: Every five minutes 60 people migrate to the UK.
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. The equivalent of around five and a half people migrated to the UK every five minutes in the year to September 2017. Net migration was around two every five minutes.


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
text:
A whistleblower has described how Pfizer made up results about injuries and deaths during vaccine trials. This has been published in the British Medical Journal.

textual_rating:
While it is true that the BMJ did publish an article about concerns raised by a whistleblower who was previously employed by a company running some of Pfizer’s Covid-19 trials, it did not include allegations that the company had made up results about deaths.


text: 90% of all trade through the Port of Southampton is to and from non-EU countries.
claimant: Royston Smith
claim_date: 2019-10-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/southampton-trade/
title: Southampton MP gets trade figures wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In 2016 it was estimated that 90% of exports (by value) from the Port of Southampton went to non-EU countries.


text: Dorothy Dow, 83, was murdered in the UK in 2022 and “the national media was silent”.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-07-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/dorothy-dow-murder-facebook/
title: Murder of grandmother didn’t take place in UK, or in 2022 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is false. Ms Dow was murdered by a group of people who burgled her home in 2016 in the US. Her death was reported on by national media in the US at the time.


text: Ribble Valley is the happiest place in the UK.
claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2019-10-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/happiest-place-uk-2019/
title: 182 places could be happier than the “UK’s happiest place” - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It had the highest average happiness rating, in an ONS survey of all UK local authorities in 2018/19. But because scores are expressed as a range between two numbers, 182 local authorities could actually be happier than Ribble Valley.


text: The Track and Trace app cost £37 billion.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/track-and-trace-project-cost/
title: NHS Covid-19 app is not the third most expensive project ever - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The NHS Covid-19 app cost around £76 million in the first year. £37 billion is the total budget for NHS Test and Trace in its first two years.


text: 3.9 million kangaroos are killed for 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:
This is an overestimate, based on the most recent data. Just under 1.5 million kangaroos and wallabies killed commercially in 2017 in Australia. We don’t know how many of those 1.5 million are used for leather.


claimant: TCW
claim_date: 2022-01-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/conservative-woman-cancer-covid-vaccine/
title: US data doesn’t prove increase in cancer following vaccine rollout - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The data supporting this claim is flawed, and has been withdrawn by officials.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
US military data shows a huge increase in rates of cancer, as well as other medical conditions, following the Covid-19 vaccine rollout.


text: Scotland has 100% self-sufficiency in its electricity requirements from renewables.
claimant: John Swinney
claim_date: 2022-09-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/snp-sturgeon-blackford-swinney-renewable-energy/
title: Senior SNP politicians mislead on renewable energy generation - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is misleading. Scotland does produce renewable electricity equivalent to its annual consumption. But as renewable energy generation is variable, Scotland often still needs to use non-renewable electricity or imported electricity as well. In 2021 domestic renewable generators alone were only capable of meeting demand for 38% of the year.


text: In 2016 and 2017 the number of students applying from lower waged families has fallen.
claimant: Barry Gardiner
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:
Application rates by disadvantaged young students and entry rates by young pupils from lower waged families haven’t fallen, according to UCAS.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-death-rate-under-60/
title: Covid-19 survival rate is not 99.991% for under 60s - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
According to NHS data, as of 21st January there have been 4,717 Covid-19 deaths of people between the ages of 0-59 in the UK.

textual_rating:
This is not true. The NHS data used in this video is just for England, not the whole UK, and only includes hospital deaths after a positive test.


claimant: Mark Easton
claim_date: 2016-08-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/are-muslim-women-more-likely-be-unemployed/
title: Are Muslim women more likely to be unemployed? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-08-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is correct.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Muslim women are three times as likely to be unemployed, and twice as likely not to be in the jobs market in the first place, compared to women generally.


claimant: Nicky Morgan MP, Secretary of State for Education
claim_date: 2015-07-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/performance-disadvantaged-pupils-improving/
title: Is the performance of disadvantaged pupils improving? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-09-08T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Broadly yes, but there's not such a clear trend for the attainment gap.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Disadvantaged pupil attainment has risen, including among poor pupils from black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.


text: An extension to the date of Brexit would cost £1 billion a month.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/1-billion-brexit-extension/
title: It’s not true to say a Brexit extension would cost £1 billion - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Wrong. An extension of a few months would cost no more than leaving with a deal in October 2019, which is still the government’s publicly stated policy.


claimant: BBC Today programme
claim_date: 2016-02-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/domestic-violence-19-million-say-they-were-victims-last-year/
title: Domestic violence: 1.9 million say they were victims last year - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-02-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: That’s right.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
1.9 million people in England and Wales said they’d been victims of domestic abuse last year, and it kills 2 women every week.


claimant: Merryn Somerset Webb
claim_date: 2017-05-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/what-gap-university-applications-most-and-least-advantaged-scotland/
review_date: 2017-05-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
You are 2.5 times more likely to apply to university if you are wealthy than if you are disadvantaged in England. The same figure is 3.5 times in Scotland.

title:
What is the gap in university applications for the most and least advantaged in Scotland? - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Incorrect if you are looking at university application rates but pretty much correct for 2016 university entry rates (both focused on 18 year olds). Some care needs to be taken over these comparisons because of differences between higher education data in Scotland and England.


claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2021-03-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/ONS-infectious-disease-deaths-graph/
title: The infectious diseases in an ONS graph are not the ones you might expect - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Death certificates with codes from the first chapter of ICD 10 show deaths that were caused by infectious disease.

textual_rating:
The first chapter of ICD 10 does not include all infectious diseases. It also includes some diseases, such as sepsis, that are not contagious.


text: 11,000 of 13,000 knife attacks in London were carried out by Muslim migrants.
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:
This claim is baseless as information on offenders’ religion and nationality is not held by the authorities. Regardless, the claim is implausible.


text: Ten years ago no child had type 2 diabetes.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2018-12-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/claim-about-children-diabetes-completely-wrong/
title: This claim about children with diabetes is completely wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-11-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. At least 328 under 18s in England were found to have type 2 diabetes in 2009, though that study was not comprehensive.


text: Because of inflation, pay rises for public sector workers are actually pay cuts.
claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/governments-pay-rise-public-sector-workers-real-terms-pay-cut/
title: Is the government’s pay rise for public sector workers a real-terms pay cut? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is effectively correct for some workers (in the police force and some doctors, dentists and teachers) and incorrect for others like those in the armed forces, prison officers, and other teachers, doctors and dentists.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-09-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/pfizer-moderna-side-effects-express/
title: Claims about vaccine adverse events based on article since-deleted over inaccuracies - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Newly-released documents have uncovered 158,000 adverse events following the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine.

textual_rating:
The list of adverse events in the “new” documents were not proven to have been caused by the vaccine, nor was the list of adverse events entirely new. The Express article pictured in the social media post was deleted after Full Fact fact checked it in March, and a correction was issued.


text: We were promised a ‘punishment budget’ before the referendum.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/false-claims-forecasts-eu-referendum/
title: False claims, forecasts, and the EU Referendum - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Sort of. Remain campaigners published a 7-page ‘Brexit Budget’ which gave rough, hypothetical figures for the kind of cuts that would be needed if the UK voted to leave the EU, the pre-referendum economic forecasts were correct and the government still wanted to run a balanced budget in 2020/21. It was presented by George Osborne, then Chancellor of the Exchequer.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Royals-England-Germany-Euros/
title: Royal attendance at Euros does not prove there’s no pandemic - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Members of the Royal Family would not have attended the England vs Germany Euros 2020 match if there actually was a “deadly pandemic”.

textual_rating:
There is clearly a real pandemic. Covid-19 has killed more than 150,000 people in the UK and the Euros match was managed to reduce infections.


text: A study has concluded that there have been no cases of children transmitting the new coronavirus.
claimant: The Mirror
claim_date: 2020-04-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/children-transmitting-coronavirus/
review_date: 2020-05-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
A scientific review did not conclude that there are no cases of children transmitting the new coronavirus - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This claim is taken out of context. It is the finding of one study among a review that found contradictory evidence about transmission of the new coronavirus in children. The review concluded that “the role of children in passing the disease to others is unknown”.


text: Rubbing hydrogen peroxide on the body “once, preferably twice a day” treats cancer.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-01-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/hydrogen-peroxide-cancer-treatment/
title: Rubbing hydrogen peroxide over your body every day does not treat cancer - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence that hydrogen peroxide applied to the skin, as described in the video, treats cancer. Depending on the strength of application, it can cause burning, blistering and permanent scarring.


text: There are now more people in work than there were before the pandemic began.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2021-11-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/employment-november-2021/
title: Numbers ‘in work’ not yet back to pre-pandemic levels - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Not quite. There are more payrolled employees, but the total number of people in paid work, including the self-employed, is below the level seen just prior to the pandemic.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-08-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/scotland-taxation-gers-funding/
title: Claim that Scotland receives no money from England is missing context - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Scotland does not receive any money from England but instead receives part of its contribution back.

textual_rating:
This is missing some context. The amount of money the UK Government spends for Scotland, or sends to Scottish authorities is higher than the amount it collects from Scottish revenues.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-03-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/old-russian-rocket-launcher/
title: A video of a failed grenade launcher does not show Russian army - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video shows Russian soldiers unsuccessfully discharging a rocket propelled grenade launcher, because the equipment is so old.

textual_rating:
The video appeared online before the invasion, and a longer version shows it likely features members of the Kenya Defence Forces.


text: The Defence Secretary has already secured £24 billion of additional defence funding.
claimant: Ben Wallace
claim_date: 2022-03-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/2022-defence-spending-increase/
title: £24bn in extra defence spending will be spread over four years - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the cumulative cash-terms increase in the defence budget over four years. The amount the annual budget is expected to rise by over this period is actually £6.2 billion in cash terms—and less when you take into account inflation.


text: An image from NASA shows the Northern Lights from space.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/this-isnt-a-real-image-of-the-northern-lights-from-space/
title: This isn’t a real image of the Northern Lights from space - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This particular image is a computer generation, not a real photo, although many real photos of the Northern Lights taken from space exist.


text: A higher proportion of the public say that they are dissatisfied with the NHS than satisfied.
claimant: British Medical Association
claim_date: 2017-06-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/cant-get-no-nhs-satisfaction/
title: Can't get no NHS satisfaction? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-07-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s difficult to say: this is according to one survey commissioned by the BMA. But there are often differences from survey to survey driven by multiple factors. A similar question asked by the British Social Attitudes survey found a majority were satisfied last year.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/letter-coronavirus-children/
review_date: 2020-04-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The NHS has issued a letter saying that some children infected with coronavirus have been exhibiting symptoms similar to toxic shock syndrome.

title:
This letter about inflammation in children is real but only refers to a handful of cases - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is a real letter issued to NHS primary care medical professionals. This letter was intended for medical professionals and refers to only a small number of cases.


text: Wages are lower in 2015 than they were before the crisis.
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:
Average weekly earnings (including bonuses) were lower in July 2015 than they were just before the 2008 recession, after accounting for inflation and seasonal movements in pay.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-09-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/test-and-trace-legislation-dna/
title: There’s no connection between new biometrics legislation and Covid-19 tests - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government has brought in legislation that allows DNA from Covid-19 tests to be “harvested” and retained.

textual_rating:
This is incorrect. This legislation allows the police to retain DNA profiles obtained related to national security and has nothing to do with Covid-19 testing.


claimant: Matt Hancock
claim_date: 2020-09-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/distance-travelled-coronavirus-tests/
title: Data on how far people travel to get a Covid-19 test isn’t all that useful - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The average distance travelled to a Covid-19 test centre is now 5.8 miles, down from 6.4 miles last week.

textual_rating:
This distance is one-way, measured as the crow flies and does not include people who turn down a test based on distance.


text: The alert will give “them” access to your locations, mobile data and a lot more.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-03-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/emergency-alert-deactivate-personal-data/
title: Emergency alert won’t give government access to your location or personal data - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The alert will not give the government or any other entity access to your location or data.


text: 74,000 children are living with ‘long Covid’.
claimant: The Mirror
claim_date: 2021-02-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/extrapolating-figures-around-long-covid-kids-not-way-go/
title: Extrapolating figures around long Covid in kids is not the way to go - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The ONS figures that these estimates are based on are ‘experimental statistics’ which have measured prevalence of some long Covid symptoms in children at five weeks after infection. They shouldn’t be used as an absolute measure from which to extrapolate population levels of long Covid in children.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-09-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/morrisons-free-food-box/
title: ‘Free Morrisons food box’ offer is fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Every person who shares or comments on a Facebook post will receive a free Morrisons food box and voucher, collectively worth £50.

textual_rating:
This is not true. Morrisons have confirmed the post is a scam, and have warned people not to interact with the post.


text: A record number of Britons are now in work.
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2018-05-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/whats-happened-employment-vote-leave-eu/
title: What’s happened to employment since the vote to leave the EU? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. Around 32 million people are in work, the highest since records began. Around 76% of all adults aged 16-64 are in work.


text: Rife machines can cure over 5,000 diseases including all cancers, infections and more.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Rife-machines/
title: No evidence Rife machines can cure all cancers - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There isn’t sufficient evidence to back up this claim. Cancer Research UK says that “there is no reliable evidence to use it as a treatment for cancer”.


text: Six million people earn below the national living wage.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-01-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/how-many-earn-below-living-wage/
title: How many earn below the living wage? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The research this appears to be based on refers to jobs, rather than people. In 2014 5.4 million people with one job earned below the national living wage.


text: British citizens can make more than £7,000 a day by investing in oil through a specific scheme.
claimant: ukfuture.info
claim_date: 2021-03-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mirror-oil-profit-suspicious-dragons-den/
title: Fake Mirror article about oil investors on Dragons’ Den looks suspicious - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is highly suspicious. The company mentioned in the article is not a registered business in the UK, the article is not a genuine Mirror article and the methods used in the post are similar to those used in scams in the past.


claimant: The Conservative Woman
claim_date: 2021-08-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/tcw-conservative-woman-vaccine-teenage/
title: Deaths from vaccines have not overtaken Covid-19 deaths - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Deaths after Covid-19 vaccines have overtaken the number of Covid-19 deaths in “healthy” people that occurred in 2020.

textual_rating:
This claim is based on mismatched sets of data, which are misleadingly presented to draw false conclusions. The two figures used do not cover the same time period or same UK nations.


claimant: Shaun Bailey
claim_date: 2019-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/london-underground-new-york-1990s/
title: The London Underground isn’t as dangerous as New York’s in the 1990s - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Crime levels on the London Underground are reminiscent of crime in New York at its worst in the 1990s.

textual_rating:
Riders of the New York City Subway in 1990—when crime peaked in the 1990s—were considerably more likely to experience a serious crime than riders of the London Underground are to experience any crime at the moment.


text: Just short of 100% of all the electricity Scotland uses is from renewable sources.
claimant: Nicola Sturgeon
claim_date: 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/environment/scotland-renewable-energy/
title: Scotland’s electricity consumption isn’t 100% renewable - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Scotland produces renewable electricity equivalent to its annual consumption, but some of this is exported, meaning it uses significant amounts of non-renewable electricity as well. In 2020, 56% of the electricity consumed in Scotland came from renewable sources.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-12-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/pandata-ukhsa-vaccine-effectiveness/
title: Estimating vaccine effectiveness by comparing case rates is seriously flawed - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Raw data from a recent Vaccine Surveillance report from the UKHSA shows a sharp drop in vaccine effectiveness against infection in most age groups

textual_rating:
This is based on comparing Covid-19 case rates between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals which is inappropriate.


text: Covid-19 vaccines have the capacity to change your DNA.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-04-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/viral-video-covid-vaccine/
title: Influencer video full of untrue vaccine claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It is untrue that Covid-19 vaccines, which include mRNA vaccines, have the capacity to affect your DNA. mRNA vaccines work by introducing a molecule into the body which instructs cells to build a disease-specific antigen. The antigen is then recognised by the immune system which produces antibodies to fight the real thing.


text: A Pfizer document contains a list of around 158,000 adverse events "from their vaccine".
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
textual_rating:
No it doesn’t. The document lists a mixture of reported adverse events following vaccination. Many may not have been caused by the vaccine.


claimant: Stan Collymore
claim_date: 2017-10-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/were-no-psychiatric-beds-available-anywhere-england-weekend/
title: Were no psychiatric beds available anywhere in England at the weekend? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-10-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There were no psychiatric beds available overnight for NHS patients across England on Saturday 28 October 2017.

textual_rating:
We don’t know how many beds were available as there are no published figures. NHS England says this is incorrect. Anecdotal evidence suggests there have been times when none of the correct type were available.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-04-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/injured-dog-Ukraine-rescue/
title: Hoax ‘injured dog’ posts use old photo which appears to be from Ukraine - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photograph shows a dog that has been injured in a hit-and-run incident in the UK, and the person posting needs help to find its owner.

textual_rating:
These posts are hoaxes. They use a photo that is at least a year old, and apparently shows a dog rescued in Ukraine.


text: There is no desire in Scotland to have membership of the EU.
claimant: Alister Jack
claim_date: 2023-01-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/scotland/alister-jack-scotland-opinion-eu-membership/
title: Public opinion in Scotland does support EU membership - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Both the 2016 referendum result and many subsequent opinion polls show a large majority support EU membership in Scotland.


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:
Aluminium is in vaccines and is linked to Alzheimer’s, dementia, seizures, autoimmune diseases, SIDs and cancer. Aluminium can accumulate in the brain and cause more damage with each dose.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence that aluminium build up in the brain causes the disease. Studies show that the amount of aluminium we can get from vaccines (and food) is not enough to be unsafe.


text: Suicide is the main cause of death among new mothers.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2016-12-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/deaths-following-childbirth/
title: Deaths following childbirth - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Suicide was the main cause of death between six weeks and one year after pregnancy in the period 2012-2014. Other causes of death were more common in the six weeks after giving birth.


text: The government's claim to have spent more on flood defence schemes misrepresents its record.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2016-01-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/government-defence-flood-defences/
title: The government defence on flood defences - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-01-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Funding for flood defences have increased overall, although it was originally set to fall. There do seem to have been cuts made in particular areas, such as staff at the Environment Agency.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fluoride-claims/
title: Not all these claims about fluoride are accurate - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
According to Dr. Bill Osmunson, the amount of fluoride in an 8-ounce glass of fluoridated tap water is equivalent to the “pea-sized” amount needed to call the Poison Control Center, as recommended on the back of any fluoridated toothpaste.

textual_rating:
In the UK, you would need to brush your teeth four to six times a day with a ‘pea-sized amount’ of toothpaste, and swallow that toothpaste, to consume the same amount of fluoride as found in a litre of tap water with the maximum levels of fluoride allowed.


text: For every 1p lost to benefit ‘thieves’, £2 is lost to tax avoiders.
claimant: Twitter account
claim_date: 2023-08-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/benefit-fraud-tax-avoidance-losses/
title: Comparison of benefit fraud and tax avoidance losses is inaccurate - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t correct. The Department for Work and Pensions estimates that in 2022/23 £6.5 billion was overpaid in benefits due to fraud, while HMRC estimates that, in the most recent financial year for which figures are available, approximately £1.4 billion less was collected in tax than theoretically should have been as a result of tax avoidance.


claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2023-03-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/sun-childhood-pneumonia/
title: Research on long term effects of childhood infections misreported - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Research shows lower respiratory tract infections in childhood can cause increased risk of death from infection in later life.

textual_rating:
Researchers found an association between these childhood infections and death from respiratory disease in general later in life–but this doesn’t prove they are the cause, and the vast majority of deaths recorded were not from infections.


claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2018-09-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/cannabis-kids-under-18s-prosecuted/
title: Cannabis kids: are more under-18s being prosecuted for supplying the drug? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
More under-18s are being prosecuted for selling cannabis while the number of those aged 18 or over prosecuted has fallen.

textual_rating:
Correct, in England and Wales. The number of 10-17 year-olds prosecuted between 2012/13 and 2016/17 increased, while the number of adults fell. Despite this many more adults are still being prosecuted overall.


text: One in three people aged 30 are going to live to 100.
claimant: Matt Hancock
claim_date: 2019-06-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/100-life-expectancy/
title: You’ve less than a one in three chance of reaching 100 - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This appears to be an overestimate. The latest estimates from the   Office for National Statistics say that men aged 30 have a 12.5% (one in eight) chance of reaching 100, while women aged 30 have a 17.2% chance (one in six).


text: Pfizer did not recommend its Covid-19 vaccine for pregnant or breastfeeding women.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/pfizer-vaccine-efficacy/
title: Post claiming the Pfizer vaccine has only a 12% efficacy rate is inaccurate - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Evidence from studies conducted during the vaccine rollout show the vaccine to be safe for use during pregnancy and breastfeeding.


text: The bank levy has been cut
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-03-22T00:00:00Z
title: Tax cuts: corporation tax, inheritance, capital gains and the bank levy - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It has, but it’s been replaced by a surcharge on bank profits, which is expected to increase taxes on banking.


claimant: Robert Peston
claim_date: 2021-07-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/robert-peston-reinfections/
title: Robert Peston overstated the importance of reinfections - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The daily number of Covid-19 cases seriously understates the real total because it does not count reinfections.

textual_rating:
It’s true that reinfections are not currently counted as cases in the data, but the evidence suggests that it would only add about 1% to the total if they were.


claimant: Labour
claim_date: 2018-11-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/how-much-does-government-subsidise-railways/
title: How much does the government subsidise the railways by? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-11-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Government direct subsidy of the railways is around £5 billion per year, an increase of over 200% since privatisation.

textual_rating:
Correct. The five year average to 2017/18 was about three times more than the five years to 1991/92, before privatisation. Large projects like HS2 and Crossrail have affected this amount.


text: The survival rate of Covid-19 without vaccination is 99.8%.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-11-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/instagram-covid-death-misleading/
title: Catching Covid-19 is not less risky than vaccination - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
While recent data shows the UK death rate from Covid-19 is 0.2%, this was reported after those most vulnerable to Covid-19 had been vaccinated and doesn’t tell us what the survival rate in an unvaccinated population is. There is evidence that vaccines offer significant protection from serious illness and death.


claimant: Fiona Bruce
claim_date: 2019-10-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/eu-referendum-electoral-commission-fines/
title: BBC Question Time get themselves in a mess over who broke electoral law - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
It was wrong for a BBC Question Time audience member to say Vote Leave are accused of breaking electoral law.

textual_rating:
This is wrong; the audience member was right. The Metropolitan Police are still investigating Vote Leave, and the Electoral Commission also found Vote Leave had broken electoral law, and fined them.


text: The UK is the EU's single largest export market.
claimant: Jon Moynihan
claim_date: 2016-01-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/where-does-eu-export/
title: Where does the EU export to? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-01-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That's right for the goods market. If you treated the UK as if it were out of the EU it would have made up 16% of the EU's goods exports in 2014. That's just ahead of the United States.


claimant: Citymetric
claim_date: 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/regional-investment-transport/
title: Regional investment in transport: we don’t know exactly who gets what - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-08-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Londoners are set to get six times more funding for transport infrastructure per head than the North East and North West regions, and eight times that on offer in Yorkshire & the Humber.

textual_rating:
These estimates are correct, using rough information from a government list of planned infrastructure projects. That information isn’t complete, and the comparison ignores funding which isn’t allocated to specific regions. If general funding was included, the regional differences are likely to be smaller.


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
text:
It’s wrong to suggest Spain is in worse shape than the UK as the UK has a much higher Covid-19 death toll.

textual_rating:
Looking at the number of cases is more relevant and Spain had many more new cases than the UK at the end of July.


text: After nine years of a Conservative government, public sector pay is down 15%.
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:
Incorrect. Between May 2010 and July 2019 in Great Britain, , under coalition and Conservative governments, average weekly earnings in the public sector (excluding financial services) decreased by 1-2% in real terms.


text: Suella Braverman has claimed £25,000 of expenses to pay her parents’ energy bills.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-04-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/suella-braverman-utility-bills-parents/
title: Suella Braverman did not claim parliamentary expenses to pay her parents’ utility bills - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. The payments were claimed in relation to her own homes and are fully allowed within the parliamentary rules.


claimant: Spiked
claim_date: 2018-10-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-referendum-not-largest-democratic-exercise/
title: The EU referendum wasn’t quite the largest democratic exercise in UK history - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The 17.4 million votes to leave the EU in 2016 was the largest mandate for anything in British political history.

textual_rating:
No single electoral option has received more votes in UK history than the vote to leave the EU in 2016. But a handful of referendum options and political parties have received a higher percentage share of a national vote.


claimant: Department for Work and Pensions
claim_date: 2017-02-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/does-government-spend-50-billion-year-disabled-people/
title: Does the government spend £50 billion a year on disabled people? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-08-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government spends around £50 billion a year to support people with disabilities and health conditions.

textual_rating:
The government spends around £50 billion on benefits which go to disabled people and people with health conditions and their carers. This includes payments that aren’t directly to do with people’s health condition such as housing benefit and income support. This figure doesn’t tell us about how individual people’s entitlements have changed due to recent changes to the benefits system.


text: There are 2,200 more doctors in general practice than before the pandemic.
claimant: Stephen Barclay
claim_date: 2023-03-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/gp-workforce-trainees/
title: Are GP numbers rising or falling? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This refers to the total headcount of GPs in England between December 2019 and January 2023—if you look at full-time equivalent (FTE) GPs, it’s about 1,900. The rise has been fuelled by a sharp increase in the number of trainee GPs, who might not see as many patients as fully qualified GPs, and the number of FTE fully qualified GPs has fallen.


text: The UK no longer has an NHS according to the WHO’s definition.
claimant: WHO
claim_date: 1995-06-01T00:00:00Z
title: Ask Full Fact: Does the World Health Organisation think the UK no longer has an NHS? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-03-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/health/ask-full-fact-does-world-health-organisation-think-uk-no-longer-has-nhs/

textual_rating:
Incorrect. There has been privatisation of services according to the WHO’s definition, because more NHS care is run by private sector companies. But the WHO didn’t say this means there’s no longer an NHS.


text: UKIP want to privatise the NHS.
claimant: Angela Rayner
claim_date: 2016-10-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/does-ukip-want-privatise-nhs/
title: Does UKIP want to privatise the NHS? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In its 2015 manifesto UKIP said that it wants to keep the NHS free at the point of delivery. Nigel Farage has suggested introducing an insurance-based model of healthcare in the past, but has since said that UKIP wants it to be free for British nationals and funded through general taxation.


text: Theresa May negotiated the UK out of 100 EU justice and home affairs laws.
claimant: David Davis
claim_date: 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/theresa-mays-eu-negotiating-experience/
title: Theresa May's EU negotiating experience - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-06-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is about right; David Cameron notified the EU of the decision to opt out of the laws, and Theresa May was involved in negotiations to opt back into 35 of them. But the right to opt out of the laws in the first place was negotiated by a previous government.


text: Viruses can’t exist outside of computer animations.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-08-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-virus-variants-exist/
title: Covid virus variants are real - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is completely untrue. Knowledge about viruses has existed since the late 19th Century, and are known to cause many human illnesses including the common cold, smallpox and herpes.


text: New laws on workplace rights have come into effect.
claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2018-12-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/zero-hour-contract-legislation/
title: Government proposes new zero hour contract legislation - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-12-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The government has made a statement to parliament saying they intend to introduce new laws to change workers’ rights. But these new rights haven’t been passed as law and so aren’t in effect.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-05-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/denzel-washington-quote/
title: No evidence Denzel Washington quote about being criticised is real - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: There is no evidence of him ever saying this.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Actor Denzel Washington said: “You’ll never be criticized by someone who is doing more than you. You’ll always be criticized by someone doing less. Remember that.”


text: Asymptomatic Covid-19 doesn’t exist.
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:
Asymptomatic transmission of Covid-19 does exist and has been shown to be an important factor in how the disease spreads. The number of overall asymptomatic cases however has been debated.


text: The justice budget has fallen by 40% since 2010.
claimant: Rachel Shabi
claim_date: 2020-02-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/justice-spending-rachel-shabi/
title: Justice spending is down 25% since 2010, not 40% - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This was a proposal, but is now out of date. The government announced a 40% real terms reduction in the Ministry of Justice budget between 2010/11 and 2019/20, but in the end the reduction was 25%.


text: Since 2001 Westminster has returned £447.5 billion to Scotland.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/scotland-finances-2001/
title: England hasn’t ‘kept’ £450 billion of Scottish taxes since 2001 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It is hard to say for certain. Since 2001/02 the Scottish government, local authorities and public corporations have spent £643 billion which was not retained in Scotland. Most of this would have come back from the UK government in the form of the block grant.


claimant: Scottish National Party
claim_date: 2019-11-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/barnett-formula-isnt-set-out-law/
title: The Barnett Formula isn’t set out in law - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-12-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK government promised the Barnett Formula would remain but billions have been pledged to other parts of the UK, bypassing the formula, as part of political pacts with the DUP.

textual_rating:
In the case of the £1 billion for Northern Ireland the Barnett Formula didn’t apply because public spending in England didn’t change.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-09-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ethylene-oxide-pcr-phe/
title: Ethylene oxide-sterilised swabs won’t cause harm during pregnancy - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A Public Health England document shows that ethylene oxide, the sterilising solution used on PCR tests, may be harmful to the unborn child.

textual_rating:
Prolonged exposure to ethylene oxide can be unsafe and may be harmful to the unborn child. But when it is used to sterilise test swabs it does not pose this risk even if you are tested often.


text: Israel has banned the entry of vaccinated tourists.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/israel-vaccinated-tourists/
title: Israel’s travel policy doesn’t view vaccinated passengers as higher risk - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Israel has postponed plans to relax restrictions on vaccinated foreign tourists, who it considers to be less of a risk than unvaccinated tourists. Vaccinated tourists are not subject to more restrictions than unvaccinated tourists.


text: 1.9 million more children are in good and outstanding schools.
claimant: Michael Gove
claim_date: 2019-06-18T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-06-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/education/its-time-stop-saying-there-are-19million-more-children-good-or-outstanding-schools/

title:
It’s time to stop saying there are “1.9million more children in good or outstanding schools” - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This doesn’t acknowledge that there were 630,000 more pupils in state-funded schools in England in 2018 compared to 2010. We also don’t know how a lot of schools rated good or outstanding are doing today, as many haven’t been re-inspected for several years. Evidence from recent Ofsted inspections suggest some may now lose their high ratings.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/mask-graphic-wrong/
title: Mask graphic contains a number of inaccuracies - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Viruses are dead material expelled from healing cells. Everyone has thousands of viruses inside their body.

textual_rating:
There is debate about whether viruses are technically alive. The human body does contain a number of viruses that don’t do harm. Covid-19 is caused by a virus that is potentially very harmful though.


text: There are another 431,000 foreign born workers in the UK.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2017-02-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/reports-employment-figures-are-accurate-not-whole-picture/
title: Reports on employment figures are accurate, but not the whole picture - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s correct. The ONS’ best estimate for the number of non-UK born workers rose by 431,000 between the end of 2015 and the end of 2016.


text: Scotland has the highest rate of workers in the UK earning the real living wage, at 81.6%.
claimant: Scottish National Party
claim_date: 2019-11-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/snp-manifesto-living-wage-slight-underestimate/
title: SNP manifesto claim on living wage is slight underestimate - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-12-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This seems to be based on slightly out of date figures, the most up to date figures we could find suggest this is a slight underestimate and that the figure is closer to 83%


text: The vaccine has luciferase.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-11-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nottingham-conspiracy-theories/
title: Luminescent enzymes not in Covid-19 vaccine and other myths debunked - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Luciferase is the name given to the bioluminescent natural enzyme which makes glow worms glow. Regardless, it isn't in any of the vaccines.


text: Poland, France and Germany have cheap travel and utilities subsidised by Europe.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/france-germany-working-week/
title: UK taxpayers aren’t subsidising France’s 35-hour working week - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Some of the EU budget is invested in transport and energy programmes. But it does not simply subsidise existing services for EU citizens. The UK is also a recipient of this funding.


claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2016-09-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-refugee-relocation/
title: How is the EU doing on refugee relocation? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Only 6,000 asylum seekers have been relocated from Italy and Greece to other EU countries under a scheme meant to relocate 160,000 people.

textual_rating:
Correct. The target is now for up to 100,000 people to be relocated from Italy and Greece by September 2017, although fewer than that may qualify.


text: Energy bills in France are about 40% of those in Britain.
claimant: Twitter account
claim_date: 2023-01-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-france-pension-comparisons/
title: How wages and pensions in the UK and France compare - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The regulated unit price of electricity in France is about 40% of that in Great Britain, while the price of gas is about the same. So it’s plausible that an electricity-only household in France might pay around 40% that of an equivalent in the UK, excluding any cash benefits that may be available to support people with their bills—and not taking account of how much energy people actually use.


text: The EU’s accounts haven’t been signed off for years.
claimant: Guido Fawkes
claim_date: 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/did-auditors-sign-eu-budget/
title: Is the EU’s budget ‘signed off’ by auditors? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-06-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Auditors say the accounts have been accurate since 2007. But they have historically recorded significant errors in how money is paid since their first audit in 1995. In the most recent year, they found a significant part of the EU’s spending was largely error-free for the first time.


text: The new UK-Japan trade deal will deliver a £1.5 billion boost to the UK economy.
claimant: Department for International Trade
claim_date: 2020-09-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-japan-trade-benefits/
review_date: 2020-09-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
£1.5bn GDP boost from UK-Japan trade deal is not on top of existing EU-Japan deal benefits - Full Fact

textual_rating:
These estimated benefits are relative to 2018 when the UK (as part of the EU) had no FTA with Japan. It’s not relative to the existing EU-Japan trade deal which currently governs trade between the UK and Japan.


text: 90,000 women are raped in the UK every year.
claimant: Owen Jones
claim_date: 2017-11-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/sexual-and-domestic-abuse-england-wales-and-scotland/
title: Sexual violence and domestic abuse - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-11-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no way of knowing exactly. Estimates suggest 90,000 woman a year were victims of rape, attempted rape and sexual assault offences in England and Wales. An estimated 50,000 women were raped, rising to 70,000 including attempted rapes.


text: Covid-19 can’t kill children.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-11-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccines-infections-children/
title: Children are more likely to die from Covid than vaccination - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. In England alone, 25 children had died as a result of a Covid-19 infection up to the end of February 2021.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2020-10-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/2020-death-toll-comparison/
title: No, we are not on track for a normal number of deaths this year - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-29T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct. These are the numbers of deaths registered in the UK for each year.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The number of UK deaths was 610,000 in 2000, 612,000 in 2003, 552,000 in 2011, 603,000 in 2015 and 616,000 in 2018.


text: New antibody tests are 100% accurate.
claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2020-05-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-antibody-tests-accuracy/
title: New antibody tests are not 100% accurate on all measures - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not correct. Although Public Health England found the Roche test had 100% specificity, it did not have 100% sensitivity.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/insulate-britain-altered-headline/
title: A ‘Guardian’ headline about the Insulate Britain protests is fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is not true. It comes from a digitally altered screenshot with a fake headline.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Guardian reported that an ambulance carrying an Insulate Britain protester was delayed in traffic caused by another protest.


claimant: twitter user
claim_date: 2023-07-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-funding-covid-budgets-dhsc/
title: Government spent much more than £18bn on the Covid health response - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
£86 billion was added to the NHS budget in 2020/21 to “fight” Covid but the NHS only got £18 billion of it.

textual_rating:
DHSC accounts show it received £63 billion extra funding to tackle Covid in 2020/21, £18 billion of which went to the NHS in England. But much of the rest was spent on other health programmes such as test and trace and buying personal protective equipment.


text: You should just ignore a parking charge notice.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2016-08-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/penalty-charge-notice/
title: This advice on how to fight a parking ticket is wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
You shouldn’t ignore it completely. If you want to appeal the notice then don’t pay immediately and follow guidance on appeals provided by Citizens Advice. But if you don’t have grounds to appeal, then it’s best to pay.


claimant: Twitter account
claim_date: 2023-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/test-and-trace-nhs-pay-increase/
title: Test and Trace spend wouldn’t fund a 15% pay rise for NHS staff until 2058 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The money wasted on NHS Test and Trace would have paid for a 15% pay rise for every NHS worker from now until 2058.

textual_rating:
The total budget for NHS Test and Trace was £37 billion, not all of which has actually been spent. A 15% increase in spending on just NHS England hospital and community staff would cost approximately £9.4 billion, meaning the total spent on Test and Trace would not come close to paying for this for 35 years.


text: 1 million people bid for 85,000 apprenticeship places last year.
claimant: The Mirror
claim_date: 2015-05-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/apprenticeships-cause-confusion-headlines/
title: Apprenticeships cause confusion in the headlines - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-05-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The figures are incomplete and only cover part of the year. They also only show applications not applicants.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2016-05-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/more-context-needed-these-facts-about-immigration/
title: More context is needed for these “facts about immigration” - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: That is an accurate quote from the BMA from 2014. It has made similar comments since.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The British Medical Association advises that without immigrants “many NHS services would struggle to provide effective care”.


text: Government data shows the fully vaccinated will develop AIDS by the end of February.
claimant: New England National Review
claim_date: 2022-01-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccines-aids-myocarditis/
title: Vaccinated Brits won’t have AIDS by the end of February 2022 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence that vaccines cause a type of AIDS, that declining efficacy from a Covid-19 vaccine would cause AIDS or that being vaccinated reduces your protection against Covid-19.


claimant: NHS staff
claim_date: 2022-01-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/sky-news-covid-sajid-javid-doctor/
title: Doctor who challenged Sajid Javid made misleading claims about vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Antibodies from a previous Covid-19 infection are probably equivalent to someone who has been vaccinated.

textual_rating:
Although natural immunity acquired through  Covid-19 infection does protect against subsequent infection, evidence shows that also being vaccinated can increase this protection dramatically. Vaccines also lower the risk of serious illness caused by an infection.


claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2022-08-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/cycling-registration-plates-survey/
title: Survey on cycling proposals not representative of all drivers - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A poll of 1,500 drivers by motoring campaign group Fair Fuel UK found 91% supported cyclists being forced to 'have road registration IDs'.

textual_rating:
The poll can’t be said to be representative of all drivers and did not explicitly ask whether cyclists should be “forced” to have registration IDs.


text: A boy called ‘Andrew Sanders’ is missing in Surrey.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-12-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-boy-andrew-sanders/
title: Police warn against interacting with posts about missing Surrey boy - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Surrey Police have confirmed that they have received no reports about this boy, and the picture used appears to have been taken from an Australian news report. We’ve seen many similar missing person posts before.


text: 125,000 care home staff had been tested for Covid-19 as of mid-May.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-05-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-tests-care-home-workers-data/
title: The government was wrong on its own data on Covid-19 tests for care homes - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not correct. Government data shows 125,000 tests on staff in care settings had been processed. It is not possible to tell the number of staff tested but it is likely much lower. The figure also includes tests on other people including family members, social care workers and care home CEOs.


text: Being vegan for a year saves 365 animals.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2019-06-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vegan-food-facts/
title: It’s unclear where these facts about veganism are from - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We haven’t seen the evidence for this. Estimates we’ve seen range between 37 and 200 animals a year.


claimant: Ben Goldacre
claim_date: 2019-09-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/register-vote-twice/
title: You can register to vote in two places - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-29T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct, provided that they are in separate local authorities.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If you are registered to vote in two places you are allowed to vote in both places during local elections.


text: Andy Burnham said he’s a “better politician” than Keir Starmer.
claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2022-09-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/Andy-Burnham-better-politician-Keir-Starmer/
title: Andy Burnham did not say he was a ‘better politician’ than Keir Starmer - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Mr Burnham did not make this comparison. His comments about being a “better politician” were instead a comparison with his own previous two attempts to contest the Labour leadership.


text: £37 billion was found to pay Serco for a failed track and trace system.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-03-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/test-trace-march-2021/
title: Misleading claims about Serco’s role in Test and Trace resurface - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
£37 billion is the two-year budget for Test and Trace. The vast majority is spent on testing not tracing and does not go to Serco.


text: Wales has a fiscal deficit worth just under 25% of its GDP, compared to the UK deficit of 5%.
claimant: BBC Question Time Audience
claim_date: 2017-03-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/wales-fiscal-deficit-gap-between-tax-and-spend/
title: Wales’s fiscal deficit: the gap between tax and spend - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That was correct in 2014/15, according to estimates from Cardiff University. This is the most recent year we’ve seen estimates for. The scale of the difference seems likely to be similar now, even if the figures are smaller.


text: Fifty-five thousand Russian troops have lost their lives fighting in Ukraine.
claimant: Gillian Keegan
claim_date: 2022-09-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/ukraine-war-russian-casualties-keegan-wallace-heappey/
title: How many Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Although the nature of any armed conflict makes it impossible to obtain accurate statistics, there are good reasons to doubt this figure.


text: An image shows the difference between a contrail and a chemtrail.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-07-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/chemtrails-vs-contrails/
title: Post comparing chemtrails and contrails shows two examples of contrails - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Both vapour trails in the image are examples of contrails, with the difference in appearance likely due to altitude. Chemtrails do not exist.


text: Vaccines prevent transmission of the Delta variant of Covid-19 for only eight weeks.
claimant: NHS staff
claim_date: 2022-01-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/sky-news-covid-sajid-javid-doctor/
title: Doctor who challenged Sajid Javid made misleading claims about vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s difficult to measure the effect of vaccines on transmission, but available evidence suggests it’s longer than eight weeks and boosters are likely to increase that protection.


text: It’s now a minority of people in our modern slavery referral system who are from the UK.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-03-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/modern-slavery-uk-nationals/
title: Are UK nationals a minority in the modern slavery statistics? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct according to the latest published figures for 2022. The most commonly referred nationality was Albanian at 27%, followed by UK nationals at 25%. In previous years since 2017, the most commonly referred nationality was British.


text: Theresa May hasn’t really increased the housing supply.
claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2017-10-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/housing-supply-and-demand/
title: Housing: supply and demand - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-10-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The number of houses being built has increased over the last decade, although it is difficult to attribute this to any one government. Overall house building isn’t keeping up with demand.


text: CNN reported the death of the same man twice, in both Afghanistan and Ukraine.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-02-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-cnn-death-afghanistan-ukraine/
title: CNN did not claim the same man was killed in both Ukraine and Afghanistan - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. It is based on screenshots of fake CNN Twitter accounts. The photo used appears to be of a YouTuber, who is alive.


text: Elon Musk plans to release “robot wives” later this year.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-05-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/elon-musk-robot-wives-AI/
title: Pictures of Elon Musk's ‘robot wives’ are AI-generated - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence this is true, and the pictures used to show these so-called “robot wives” were generated using AI.


text: 650,000 jobs in London are dependent on the single market.
claimant: Stella Creasy
claim_date: 2017-06-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/how-many-jobs-are-dependent-single-market/
title: How many jobs are dependent on the single market? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-06-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is wrong. Treasury estimates suggest this many jobs in London are associated with exports to the EU.


text: A new law to speed up the installation of 5G technology was quietly passed on March 23.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/5g-beyond-us-law/
title: The 5G And Beyond Act is not a British law - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-04-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This law was passed in the US, not the UK, after going through Congress for a year. It’s intended to ensure the security of 5G infrastructure, not to speed up the installation.


text: Ending tariffs means lower prices in shops and pubs.
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/beer-mat-brexit-do-facts-stack/
title: Beer mat Brexit: do the facts stack up? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Not necessarily. The Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates that a reduction in consumer prices from reducing tariffs would be wiped out by extra costs imposed by the UK leaving the EU customs union.


text: The NHS has had its lowest financial settlement than any time going back to 1948.
claimant: Polly Toynbee
claim_date: 2017-03-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-spending-lowest-financial-settlement-ever/
title: NHS spending: the lowest financial settlement ever? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The decade from 2010 to 2020 will see the smallest annual increases in UK healthcare spending than any previous period, according to experts at The King’s Fund and Health Foundation.


text: 24,641 die of heart disease 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 is an underestimate for all cardiovascular disease deaths, but close to the daily figure of those who die from coronary heart disease specifically.


text: There is a link between Covid-19 vaccines and a new strain of HIV identified in the Netherlands.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-02-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccines-hiv-netherlands/
title: No link between Covid-19 vaccines and new HIV strain - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence for this. The HIV strain identified is thought to have arisen around 30 years ago.


claimant: Sky News
claim_date: 2023-07-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/grocery-price-inflation/
review_date: 2023-07-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Inflation data shows the steepest decline in checkout costs since grocery inflation peaked in March.

title:
Sky News article wrongly claims falling inflation figures mean decline in checkout costs - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is misleading, as it suggests that the data in question shows that grocery prices have fallen. In actual fact, it shows that prices are still rising, but less steeply than previously.


text: The return to universities could cause 50,000 deaths from Covid-19 without “strong controls”.
claimant: University and College Union
claim_date: 2020-08-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/ucu-50000-deaths/
title: Reopening universities will almost certainly not cause 50,000 deaths - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This comes from a research paper that has not been peer-reviewed. It is based on several assumptions, including that every student gets infected, and nothing is done to stop it.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-10-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-German-satirical-magazine-cover/
title: President Zelenskyy magazine cover circulating on social media is a fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The October edition of German magazine Titanic shows a cartoon that is critical of President Zelenskyy.

textual_rating:
This is not a genuine cover published by Titanic magazine. The real October edition features a different cover.


text: The new coronavirus is actually the impact of 5G exposure.
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:
This is incorrect, the new coronavirus is a virus and there is no evidence that 5G is harmful to people’s health.


text: The £300m Track and Trace app has quietly been binned.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/test-and-trace-app-cost/
title: Viral Facebook post on cost of “binned” test and trace app is wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A Covid-19 track and trace app is on trial in Great Britain. The government trialled an app of its own design before changing track and using a Google/Apple designed system. The app had cost around £10.8m as of June.


text: Fibres from face masks and test swabs can cause Morgellons disease.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-04-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/masks-swabs-covid-morgellons-fibres/
title: Fibres from masks and swabs aren’t 'Morgellons' - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. There is nothing sinister about these fibres and there is some debate as to whether Morgellons is a real disease.


text: A newborn baby boy has been found in a Swansea dumpster in February 2023.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-02-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/abandoned-newborn-swansea-hoax/
title: Photo of newborn ‘found in Swansea dumpster’ shows a baby found in London in 2019 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The image accompanying this Facebook post shows a newborn girl abandoned in a park in London in 2019. South Wales Police says it has no record of a recent incident like this in Swansea.


text: Schemes for people from Afghanistan and Hong Kong have been closed.
claimant: Khalid Mahmood
claim_date: 2023-03-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/khalid-mahmood-safe-routes-refugees/
title: Labour MP wrong to say ‘there are no safe routes’ to enter UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is also incorrect. The Hong Kong British National (Overseas) route remains open indefinitely with no cap on numbers. The routes for people from Afghanistan do remain open formally, though the number of people resettled under some pathways is very low.


text: Greenhouse gas emissions fell by 8% in 2014, the largest fall in a single year.
claimant: Amber Rudd
claim_date: 2016-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/energy-bill/uk-carbon-emissions-are-falling/
title: UK carbon emissions are falling - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-02-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s right for carbon dioxide emissions. Looking at all greenhouse gases, the reduction was slightly higher in 2009.


claimant: HM Treasury
claim_date: 2022-09-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/treasury-terraced-house-tweet/
title: Do Treasury claims about a 'typical' first-time buyer’s savings add up? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
As a result of the government’s “Growth Plan”, a typical first-time buyer in London moving into a representative terraced house will save £11,250 on stamp duty and £1,050 on the household's energy bills—and if they earn £30,000, almost an additional £400 on tax. This is around £12,700 in total.

textual_rating:
These figures are accurate in and of themselves. But in calculating the savings for this hypothetical buyer, the Treasury’s made a very specific set of assumptions.


text: More people are getting advance payments on Universal Credit.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-10-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/are-more-people-being-paid-advance-their-universal-credit/
title: Are more people being paid an advance on their Universal Credit? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-10-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. Advances made on the first payment of new Universal Credit claims increased from 30% of claims in May 2016 to 52% in July 2017.


text: There are 5,240 fewer mental health nurses since 2010.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-01-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-viral-image-factcheck/
title: NHS viral image factcheck - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This seems to be looking at different months in 2010 and 2017, which isn’t the best comparison. Comparing the number of full-time equivalent mental health nurses between January 2010 and January 2018 (the latest figures), the drop is closer to 4,500.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-06-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/boris-johnson-bbc-boo/
title: BBC didn’t ‘censor’ audio of crowd booing over Boris Johnson clip - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Footage from Boris and Carrie Johnson’s arrival at the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee thanksgiving service was manipulated to remove booing.

textual_rating:
The audio was not manipulated. A version of the clip shown minutes later used sound recorded by a different crew.


claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-06-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/child-poverty-keir-starmer-boris-johnson/
review_date: 2020-06-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct, this is roughly how many children receive free school meals in England.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
1.3 million children will benefit from the government’s u-turn on funding free school meals over the summer holidays.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-05-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/john-lennon-happy-quote/
title: No evidence John Lennon quote about happiness is real - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: There’s no evidence of John Lennon ever telling this anecdote.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
John Lennon once said: “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”


claimant: Twitter account
claim_date: 2022-08-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Boris-Johnson-heckle-tweet/
title: Claims Boris Johnson heckled in Greece without evidence - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Italian TV showed a British man shouting,
"Get back to work you fat ponce" at Boris Johnson while he was on holiday in Greece.

textual_rating:
There’s no evidence that this incident actually happened. The claim appears to have originated from a Twitter account previously accused of making false claims.


text: £300 million could put 10,000 police officers on the streets.
claimant: Diane Abbott
claim_date: 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/can-300-million-pay-10000-police-officers/
title: Can £300 million pay for 10,000 police officers? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Probably not. There aren’t published estimates for the cost of training and recruiting police officers and Labour hasn’t substantiated its claim publicly. £300 million would cover those officers’ salaries for one year, but it wouldn’t cover the costs of training, equipment, and overheads at the same time.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-11-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/37-billion-test-trace-dido-harding/
title: ‘Wanted’ poster missing context on Test and Trace spending - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Former NHS Test and Trace boss Baroness Dido Harding is responsible for the “disappearance” of £37 billion of public money.

textual_rating:
£37 billion was the budget for Test and Trace in its first two years. As of June 2022, £25.7 billion had reportedly been spent on the system.


text: An image shows a woman wearing a protest sign that says “my legs are open for refugees”.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/refugee-sign-fake/
title: This picture of a sign about refugees has been digitally altered - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The image has been digitally altered. It is a pre-made Amnesty International sign saying “my door is open for refugees”.


text: This photograph shows the smallest bird in the world.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/not-a-real-hummingbird/
title: A photo of a tiny bird actually shows a tiny sculpture - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. This is a photograph of a miniature artwork, not a real bird. It is a sculpture of a robin.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/lemons-and-cancer/
title: Facebook post claiming lemons treat cancer better than chemotherapy is false - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Eating lemons kills cancer cells and the compounds of the tree are 10,000 times more effective at doing so than the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin.

textual_rating:
While some compounds contained in lemons and their trees may have anti-cancer action at high concentrations, there is no evidence to suggest they are in any way superior to chemotherapy.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-02-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/macron-england-murderous-fake-quote/
title: No evidence French president called England ‘oppressive’, ‘murderous’ and ‘cruel’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-09T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: There’s no evidence he ever said this.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
President of France Emmanuel Macron once said that England was “fearful of losing Scotland” and called England an oppressive, murderous, cruel nation that disrespected others’ democratic rights and believed it had “a right and entitlement to others' wealth and resources”.


text: The manual for certain benefits is three times the size of War and Peace.
claimant: Dia Chakravarty
claim_date: 2016-10-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/war-and-peace-and-benefits-regulations/
title: War and Peace and benefits regulations - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is right on one measure. Guidance for officials on administering JSA and Income Support has three times as many pages as the novel’s first edition.


text: 58% of people in the UK would be comfortable with a female head of state.
claimant: Axios
claim_date: 2018-11-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/how-does-uk-feel-about-women-leading-country/
title: How does the UK feel about women leading the country? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-12-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A recent survey found 58% of UK adults aged 18-64 would be “very comfortable” with a female head of government, and a further 30% were “fairly comfortable”.


text: A new trial would allow over 31,000 women to perform their own smear tests.
claimant: Matt Hancock
claim_date: 2021-02-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/HPV-swabs-are-not-smear-tests/
title: HPV testing kits are not smear tests - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It is near impossible to perform your own smear test. This is referring to a self swab to test for Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). The two tests are not the same thing.


text: Mask-wearing cuts Covid incidence by 53%, says global study.
claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2021-11-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mask-wearing-study-edinburgh-guardian/
title: Study doesn’t show masks cause 53% drop in Covid risk - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t what the study says. The study says that mask-wearing was “associated with” a reduction in risk, but that, due to the limitations of the research, “it was difficult for our review to draw a one directional or causal conclusion.”


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-05-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Harry-William-AI-images/
title: Photos of Prince Harry and Prince William together at the coronation are AI-generated - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The photos are AI-generated and were published before the coronation took place.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Photographs show Prince Harry and Prince William embracing and speaking at King Charles III’s coronation.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-08-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/australian-navy-illegal-immigrant-boat/
title: Picture doesn’t show Australian Navy ramming ‘illegal immigrant’ boat - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A picture shows the Australian Navy ramming a boat full of illegal immigrants, who were all later returned to their home country while the crew was arrested and the boat scrapped.

textual_rating:
This isn’t what the picture shows. It was taken in 2012 and actually shows two Japanese ships trapping a smaller boat carrying Chinese activists in the East China Sea, close to a group of uninhabited islands contested by the two nations. Australia does turn back people who make unauthorised boat voyages.


text: The number of staff who quit the NHS citing work-life balance stood at 27,546 in 2022.
claimant: The Observer
claim_date: 2023-07-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-workforce-leavers-work-life-balance/
title: NHS data doesn’t show 27,000 quit the health service for work-life balance reasons - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The data doesn’t support this. While the latest NHS Digital data shows that this many staff left NHS roles in England in 2022 citing work-life balance as a reason for leaving, it does not tell us whether they quit the health service altogether or went on to a new NHS role.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-03-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/tetanus-deaths/
title: Tetanus jabs are not being used to sterilise people - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The World Health Organisation and National Institutes of Health are using the tetanus jab to make people sterile.

textual_rating:
This is a claim that has previously been disproven and appears to derive from rumours surrounding trials in the 1990s of a combined tetanus and contraceptive vaccine that was not intended to sterilise women forever. The WHO has previously led research into fertility regulating vaccines but these are explicitly not designed to be permanent, and were meant to offer alternatives to already existing contraceptive methods.


text: Officers are being injured on duty at a rate of 28 assaults a day.
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:
In the year to March 2019, there were 10,399 assaults with injury on a constable, which equates to a daily average of 28. These numbers do not give the complete picture, however.


text: 6% of students don’t make it from their first year of university to their second year.
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
url:
https://fullfact.org/education/6-young-first-time-students-drop-out-university-after-their-first-year/

textual_rating:
Correct, for UK young undergraduate students at university for the first time in 2014/15. These figures are dated now, but still the latest available.


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:
Imports from the rest of the world rose to £20.1 billion, their highest since records began in 1997.

textual_rating:
£20.1 billion is the highest cash amount of imports from the rest of the world in any given month, but imports were higher than this, when adjusted for inflation, for large parts of the late 2010s.


text: Covid-19 vaccines are getting banned in Florida for being bio weapons.
claimant: instagram user
claim_date: 2023-07-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/florida-covid-vaccines-banned/
title: Florida is not banning Covid-19 jabs for being bioweapons - 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 true. While a Republican group in Florida has agreed to send a letter asking state officials to ban Covid vaccines, this does not appear to have any legal power to ban the jabs.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-04-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-children-appeal-Wendy/
title: Facebook hoaxes about missing UK children use old photos from the US - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photograph shows a child who has been found in the UK and the user needs help locating their parents.

textual_rating:
The posts are hoaxes. They all use near-identical text claiming a child has been found in multiple different locations, and use old photos of children in the US.


text: Queen Elizabeth II is being treated for Covid-19 with ivermectin.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-02-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/queen-elizabeth-covid-ivermectin/
title: News clip doesn’t prove Queen is being treated with ivermectin - 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 to suggest this is true. The news channel, which accidentally broadcast a shot of ivermectin during a segment about the Queen’s treatment, has apologised and said it was the result of “human error”.


text: There are 6,000 fewer nurses and 400 fewer doctors working in mental health under this government.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-01-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/fewer-doctors-and-nurses-working-mental-health/
title: Fewer doctors and nurses working in mental health - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There were 6,100 fewer nurses in 2015 compared to 2010 in England, using a broad definition of mental health nurses that includes learning disability nurses. Looking only at mental health nurses there were 4,600 fewer over the same time. There were 170 fewer fully trained doctors specialising in psychiatry and psychotherapy in 2016 compared to 2010.


text: UKHSA data also shows having a booster vaccine increases your chance of hospitalisation and death.
claimant: Mark Steyn
claim_date: 2022-04-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mark-steyn-ukhsa-vaccine-data/
title: GB News presenter wrong about booster vaccine deaths - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There may be various reasons why people who have been boosted show higher rates of hospitalisation and death, beyond the fact they have been boosted. For example, a higher proportion of elderly people, who are more vulnerable to Covid-19, have been triple-vaccinated. There is no proof that a booster vaccine increases your chance of dying or being hospitalised.


text: Ken Clarke, former Conservative Chancellor said he won’t vote for the Conservatives.
claimant: Diane Abbott
claim_date: 2019-11-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/abbott-media-bias/
title: Ken Clarke did not say he won’t vote for the Conservatives - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Mr Clarke said he would not vote for the Conservatives if it campaigned as “some crazy right-wing nationalist organisation” but also said that “I don’t think that will be where we end up”.


text: One in seven workers are self-employed, and the number is growing.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/are-more-people-self-employed/
title: Are more people self-employed? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
One in seven is right, and the number and proportion of workers that are self-employed has been rising since the early 2000s, although it has fluctuated.


text: South Korean Police use purple dye cannons to mark protesters
url: https://fullfact.org/online/water-cannon-purple-dye/
title: South Korean police don’t use purple dye cannons on protesters - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
South Korean police have historically used yellow dye cannons of protesters, but have reportedly begun to reconsider the user of water cannons.


text: 4,717 Covid-19 deaths out of the 0-59 year-old UK population means a 0.009% fatality rate.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-death-rate-under-60/
title: Covid-19 survival rate is not 99.991% for under 60s - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is wrong on a few levels. The death data is for England alone, and only for those dying in hospital after a positive test, and this calculation only works if every single person aged 0-59 has been infected with Covid.


text: No one voted for Ursula von der Leyen.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-07-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/president-european-commission-democratically-elected/
title: Was the new President of the European Commission democratically elected? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Ms von der Leyen was nominated to be President of the European Commission by the European Council. Her nomination does need to be approved by a majority of MEPs in the EU parliament (who were voted for in May).


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-03-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/injured-dog-hoax-blog-photo/
title: Injured dog hoax uses photo of pet recovering from surgery - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The post is a hoax. It uses a photo from a blog post about someone’s pet recovering from surgery.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A social media user has found a dog injured in a hit-and-run incident and needs help finding its owner.


text: The Duke of Cambridge said there are “too many people on earth”.
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:
This is untrue. While Prince William has, in the past, made comments about human populations in the context of wildlife conservation, Full Fact could find no record of him publicly saying there are “too many people on earth”.


text: This is the first time the UK has finished above China in the medals table.
claimant: Google Trends
claim_date: 2016-08-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/olympic-games-factchecked/
title: The Olympic Games, factchecked - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-08-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. It's the first time since the Winter Olympics of 1980, China's first games, when the UK has finished above them in the table.


text: The Arc de Triomphe has been decorated with a large rainbow installation to celebrate Pride.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-06-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/arc-de-triomphe-pride-sculpture-animation/
title: ‘Pride installation' on Arc de Triomphe is animated video - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not a real installation. It’s an animation, created by an artist who has created many similar works inspired by famous landmarks.


text: After nine years of a Conservative government, food bank use is up 1,000%.
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 increase is over 1000%, looking at the number of three-day food packages handed out by the Trussell Trust, which runs a network of food banks in the UK. This does not cover all food banks in the UK though. The period covers coalition and Conservative governments.


text: Test and Trace cost 10 times more than the mission to Mars.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-02-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/test-trace-mars-perseverance/
title: Test and Trace has much larger budget than Mars Perseverance expedition - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This needs context. Test and Trace has a budget of £22 billion but the last figures, to October, show just £4 billion had been spent. NASA expects to spend £1.9 billion on the Perseverance rover.


text: It was this Conservative government that tackled the debt.
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 government’s debt has risen from £1 trillion (or 64% of GDP) in May 2010 to £1.8 trillion (or 81% of GDP) now.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-05-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Agenda-21-Agenda-2030/
title: Poster shared on Facebook misrepresents Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UN’s Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 plans include a number of global initiatives, such as a world credit system, global military, mandatory vaccines and an end to private ownership.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence that any of the items in the list shared on social media are actually part of the UN’s plans. The agendas are not legally binding.


text: A number of images imply ‘chemtrails’ exist.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-07-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/chemtrails-pictures-conspiracy/
title: Pilots wearing ‘chemtrails’ badges is a long-running joke about the conspiracy theory - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Some of the pictures show ‘chemtrails’ badges that are a joke, others show water ballast tanks that are used to simulate passengers during flight testing, others show a system for spraying anti-mosquito chemicals and pesticides.


claimant: James Cleverly
claim_date: 2017-01-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/article-50-bill/
title: The Article 50 bill - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The draft law that will start the process of leaving the EU has 133 words. The law enabling women to become MPs only has 70.

textual_rating:
Close: the 1918 law on women MPs had 95 words. The general point that the length of a law has nothing to do with its importance is correct.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/dont-put-tampon-in-stab-wound/
title: You shouldn’t put a tampon in a stab wound - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If you get stabbed, open a tampon and whack it in the wound. The tampon will swell, which creates pressure and stops the bleeding.

textual_rating:
Several first aid experts told us not to do this, as it may not work and could risk further harm. You should put pressure on the wound with something like a bandage, towel, or even a piece of clothing, and call 999.


url: https://fullfact.org/europe/vote-leave-facts-leaflet-trade/
title: Vote Leave "facts" leaflet: trade - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
While in the EU the UK can’t make trade deals on its own. This means it has no trade deals with Australia, New Zealand or the USA - or growing economies like India, China or Brazil. Instead of making a deal which is best for the UK, we have to wait for 27 other countries to agree it.

textual_rating:
EU member countries can’t make trade deals separately from the rest of the EU. The EU doesn’t have trade deals with the countries named but is currently negotiating with some of them.


text: The Canadian government is introducing a social credit scheme.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/canada-social-credit-china-false/
title: Canada is not implementing a social credit scheme - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not happening. It is a misinterpretation of advice given to Canadian businesses that operate in China where a social credit scheme exists.


claimant: Sunday Times
claim_date: 2017-03-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/changes-pre-recorded-evidence-alleged-rape-victims-truss-thomas/
title: What changes are being made to pre-recorded evidence from alleged rape victims? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
All alleged victims of adult sexual offences tried in the Crown Court will be able to have their evidence recorded in advance from September 2017.

textual_rating:
Only a small number of alleged victims in three particular courts are likely to be affected by these proposals from September.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-06-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/petrol-e10-ethanol-evaporation-climate/
title: Social media posts claim ethanol is being added to petrol to increase sales - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Ethanol has been added to petrol in order to make it evaporate more quickly and force people to buy more fuel.

textual_rating:
Since September 2021, more ethanol has been added to fuel in order to reduce greenhouse emissions to help the UK meet its climate change targets. This does slightly reduce cars’ fuel economy.


text: Sajid Javid said that Covid-19 deaths in the UK had been overestimated.
claimant: Maajid Nawaz
claim_date: 2022-02-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/maajid-nawaz-joe-rogan-covid/
title: Maajid Nawaz got Covid-19 facts wrong on the Joe Rogan podcast - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is misleading without context. Mr Javid said that one measure of Covid-19 deaths had begun to overestimate the total since the Omicron variant arrived in the UK. However, this does not affect the more accurate measure of the death toll during the pandemic, which is based on death certificates.


text: There are no biohazard bins used for PPE such as masks and gloves.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-02-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ppe-disposal-guidance/
title: Government advise special precautions for disposing of infectious PPE - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Clinical waste bins aren’t advised for most people, though they are in some settings like hospitals. There are also guidelines in place to make contamination from infected PPE less likely, and disposal safer.


text: A Facebook user has found a missing or injured dog.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-12-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-dog-posts-withernsea/
title: Appeals about injured and lost dogs are fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Several of these posts use images of a dog which featured in a news report in 2021, while others use the same text, but with different images.


text: 40% of people in Glasgow live below the poverty line.
claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2017-05-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/40-glasgow-living-poverty/
title: Is 40% of Glasgow living in poverty? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We haven’t found this specific figure. We do know that 48% of areas in Glasgow were among the 20% most deprived in Scotland in 2016. That’s not the same as 48% of people though.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/deaths-covid-19-uk-italy/
title: These numbers about Covid-19 deaths in the UK and Italy are broadly accurate - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The total number of deaths from Covid-19 in the UK is now at 233, the same number of deaths reported in Italy about two weeks ago.

textual_rating:
Correct. On 21 March, Public Health England reported a total of 233 deaths in the UK from Covid-19. However, not enough is known to say whether the number of deaths will grow at the same rate in the UK as in Italy.


text: Adoption without parental consent is unusual outside England and Wales.
claimant: Sir Nicholas Mostyn, High Court judge
claim_date: 2014-09-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/are-we-unusual-permitting-non-consensual-adoption/
title: Are we unusual in permitting non-consensual adoption? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-11-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Research suggests that all or most other European countries do allow non-consensual adoption in some circumstances. But it seems much rarer in practice than in England and Wales.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-01-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/no-evidence-tellers-voter-fraud/
title: Electoral Commission has no evidence of tellers engaging in voter fraud - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Tellers have a record of who doesn’t vote, and this is used to bring people to the polling station late in the evening and present as you.

textual_rating:
The Electoral Commission has found no evidence of the information gathered by tellers being used to conduct voter fraud.


text: Keir Starmer stopped Jimmy Savile being charged in 2009.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/keir-starmer-prosecute-jimmy-savile/
review_date: 2020-06-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Keir Starmer led the CPS when it did not charge Jimmy Savile, but he wasn’t the reviewing lawyer - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Mr Starmer was head of the CPS when the decision was made not to prosecute Savile but he was not the reviewing lawyer for the case. An official investigation commissioned later by Starmer criticised both prosecutors and police for their handling of the allegations.


text: Scotland has a directive to chop down 17 million trees.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-08-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/scotland-17m-trees/
title: Does Scotland have an ‘order’ to chop down 17 million trees? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
No such directive appears to exist. On land managed by Scotland's Forestry and Land agency, between 2000 and 2020, an estimated  13.9 million trees were felled for wind farms, but many more were later planted.


text: Employees are earning more money than before the pandemic.
claimant: Thérèse Coffey
claim_date: 2022-04-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/therese-coffey-employment-down-april-2022/
title: Thérèse Coffey wrong to claim employment is up over the pandemic - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. Real-terms wages are up since before the pandemic, though have been broadly flat for around a year.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/serco-test-trace-22-billion/
title: Test and Trace money didn’t all go to one company - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A £22 billion Test and Trace contract was given to a company which has been prosecuted twice by the Serious Fraud Office.

textual_rating:
£22 billion was the entire budget for Test and Trace during 2020/21, of which around £13.5 billion was spent. The money went to a range of public and private organisations, not just one company.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-06-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/facebook-hack-warning/
review_date: 2022-06-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There’s a new Facebook hack that sends very offensive comments to an account holder’s contacts while appearing to come from them. The account holder won’t see it, but their contacts do.

title:
No evidence Facebook hackers sending ‘offensive comments’ to your friends which you can’t see - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This warning has been circulating on Facebook for years. Experts say there’s no evidence that this specific kind of hack is happening.


url: https://fullfact.org/economy/employment-growth-insecure-precarious-work/
title: Has employment growth been driven by a rise in insecure, precarious work? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
At least a large part of growth in employment has been driven by an increase in insecure, precarious work.

textual_rating:
That doesn’t seem to be the case for the UK jobs market overall. The picture for specific industries, regions and groups might be different and statistics will only ever give a limited insight into questions about job quality.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-06-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/david-icke-midazolam/
title: Covid-19 is real and not a government euthanasia policy - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Elderly people were ‘culled’ in care homes, hospices and other places using a drug called midazolam.

textual_rating:
People have died in care homes during the Covid-19 pandemic. While midazolam is often used in end of life care, there is no evidence to suggest that this has been used with the intention of killing people, or as part of a euthanasia policy.


text: Only 17,500 people have died of Covid in England and Wales.
claimant: Alex Belfield
claim_date: 2022-01-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/alex-belfield-youtube-17500/
title: Alex Belfield is wrong to say that only 17,500 people died of Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The true number is more than 140,000. 17,500 is roughly how many of these people did not have other pre-existing conditions.


claimant: Richard Tice
claim_date: 2021-07-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/richard-tice-covid-vaccine-infertility-stillbirth/
title: Richard Tice makes misleading claims about Covid-19 vaccines and fertility - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
“Forcing” young women to have Covid-19 vaccines is “almost certain” to lead to increased stillbirths, miscarriages, disabled children and infertility.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence for this. Yellow Card and VAERS reporting is cited as the source of this claim, but the data from these systems does not prove a link.


text: Costa Coffee is demanding customers show proof of medical status before you can sit in.
claimant: June Slater
claim_date: 2021-07-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/costa-vaccine-passport/
title: Costa sign demanding vaccine proof to sit in wasn’t taken in UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A photo shows a sign outside a Costa Coffee in Ireland explaining that adults who want to dine indoors need to show proof of full vaccination or that they have recovered from Covid-19 in the last six months. These are the rules for indoor dining in Ireland.


text: 3,250 people investigate benefit fraud compared to 300 who investigate tax evasion.
claimant: Angus Robertson
claim_date: 2016-04-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/do-benefit-fraud-investigators-outnumber-tax-inspectors-ten-one/
title: Do benefit fraud investigators outnumber tax inspectors 10:1? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-04-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t comparing like-with-like and the DWP figure is out of date. The staff mentioned work on all benefit fraud and error and tax evasion and avoidance, not just the illegal activities.


claimant: Jacob Rees-Mogg
claim_date: 2017-10-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/has-there-been-recession-eu-referendum/
title: Has there been a recession since the EU referendum? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-10-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Treasury said there would be 500,000 to 800,000 jobs lost in the case of a vote in favour of Brexit.


text: Benefit fraud and error costs the UK taxpayer £3 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:
It’s estimated that £3.9 billion is overpaid to claimants due to fraud or claimant error, and £1.3 billion is underpaid to claimants due to claimant error. That gives a balance of £2.6 billion.


text: Antibiotics should not be used to treat scarlet fever or other strep A 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:
This is false. Scarlet fever is always treated with antibiotics once it has been diagnosed by a doctor, regardless of severity.


claimant: The Metro
claim_date: 2020-10-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/non-covid-deaths-homes/
title: Non-Covid deaths in private homes are up, but have decreased elsewhere - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The number of deaths from diabetes is up 86%, from prostate cancer is up 53%, from Parkinson’s is up 79%, from breast cancer is up 47% and from bowel cancer is up 46%.

textual_rating:
This refers to the number of deaths in private homes registered in England between March and September this year compared to the five-year average. Across all locations, the numbers of deaths from some of these diseases are in line with historic averages.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/funeral-director-interview/
title: False claims from funeral director about facemasks, vaccines and the pandemic - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The World Health Organisation changed the definition of what a pandemic is and removed conditions such as cases of serious illness or death.

textual_rating:
There has been ongoing debate about a change in the text used on a WHO website regarding pandemic influenza in 2009. Covid-19 was declared the world’s first coronavirus pandemic in 2020, based on factors such as “alarming levels of spread and severity”.


text: A coronavirus vaccine for cows shows that the virus behind the current outbreak is not new.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-cows/
title: This is not a vaccine for the 2019 coronavirus - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is a different coronavirus from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that can affect a range of species.


text: Covid-19 vaccines offer no protection against transmission of or infection from the virus.
claimant: Neil Oliver
claim_date: 2021-10-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/neil-oliver-vaccines-effect/
title: Covid-19 vaccines do offer some protection against transmission and infection - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
While they don’t reduce the risk completely, multiple studies have shown vaccines do have a meaningful impact on your chances of catching or passing on the virus once you’ve been vaccinated. Early evidence suggests a booster vaccine will strengthen this effect even more.


text: A man called Todd is searching for his birth mother who is pictured in an old photograph.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-05-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/search-for-birth-mother-nazarene-church/
title: Post appealing to find birth mother uses stock image with sepia effect - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is a hoax. The photograph is a stock image taken from a picture editing website. The same user has posted the appeal in different Facebook groups claiming the man was adopted in different places.


url: https://fullfact.org/health/mandatory-vaccine-tracing/
review_date: 2020-07-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An app will be placed on your phone without your consent and a QR code on the app will show your vaccine status. Shops and businesses will have a QR scanner that will indicate whether you are allowed to enter based on your vaccine status.

title:
There is no indication that a Covid-19 vaccine will be mandatory or that those who don’t get it will have their movements restricted - Full Fact

textual_rating:
We have found no evidence to suggest any tracking apps will be automatically downloaded onto phones or used to trace vaccinations. There is no suggestion that people who don’t get the vaccination will have their movements limited.


text: The woman in the photograph has dementia and is lost with her dog and needs to be identified.
claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-02-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/lost-woman-with-dementia/
title: Posts about a lost woman with dementia are a hoax - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is a hoax. The same image has been posted across multiple community pages around the world, and has been identified as a hoax by a Canadian search and rescue team.


text: The UK has 52 weeks of maternity pay.
claimant: Bill Cash
claim_date: 2023-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/maternity-pay-vs-leave/
title: MP wrong to claim UK offers 52 weeks maternity pay - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Statutory maternity pay is for 39 weeks. It’s statutory maternity leave that can be for up to 52 weeks. Some employers may choose to offer additional pay.


text: Test and Trace cost £37 billion.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-11-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/flawed-list-conservative-costs/
title: Big spending list on Test and Trace and furlough loss needs context - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This was its budget in the first two years. It’s actually spent less than this. According to the NAO, as of July 2022, £25.7 billion had been spent with an expected final bill of £29.3 billion.


text: Test and Trace cost £37 billion.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-11-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/test-and-trace-cost-less-than37-billion/
title: European countries’ Test and Trace programmes cost much more than €100,000 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Test and Trace had a budget of £37 billion for its first two years, but the NAO estimated in July 2022 that the final cost will be around £29 billion.


text: The courts have said that the so-called 'bedroom tax' is illegal.
claimant: Child Poverty Action Group
claim_date: 2016-01-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/todays-ruling-bedroom-tax/
title: The ruling on the 'bedroom tax' - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-01-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The decision affects victims of domestic violence whose homes have 'panic spaces', and disabled children who need overnight carers. It doesn't spell the end of the policy in general and is likely to be appealed to the Supreme Court.


text: Installing defibrillators in all schools is proof that Covid-19 vaccines are not safe.
claimant: instagram user
claim_date: 2023-01-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/defibrillators-schools-covid-vaccine-deaths/
title: Installing defibrillators in schools is not proof that Covid-19 vaccines are unsafe - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Defibrillators were being installed in schools prior to the pandemic. There is no evidence for a link between Covid-19 vaccines and cardiac arrest.


claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2016-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/passports-for-NHS/
title: Passports for the NHS? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
NHS hospitals will require all women to show their passports before they receive maternity services.

textual_rating:
This refers to one hospital in London rather than all hospitals in England and Wales. It’s in line with NHS guidelines on identifying foreign patients who might be required to pay for their treatment. The government is looking into whether identification checks could be rolled out more widely.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ukraine-app-great-reset/
title: Ukraine is not enacting the ‘Great Reset’ with an app - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Ukraine just announced it's the first country to implement the WEF's Great Reset by setting up a Social Credit Application combining Universal Basic Income (UBI), a Digital Identity and a Vaccine Passport all within the Diia app.

textual_rating:
Ukrainians can use the Diia app to store digital ID documents, including vaccine passports and apply for a war payment if they’re eligible. But this can’t be described as a social credit application, and has nothing to do with ‘The Great Reset’—a book by the WEF’s founder about how governments respond to a post-pandemic world.


text: “Real scientists” are trying to stop the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccines.
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:
It is true that several scientists have argued that the vaccine rollout should be halted. However, their claims have been widely fact checked during the pandemic, and have been associated with dangerous misinformation about Covid-19 and vaccines.


text: A Lee Rigby charity football page was removed from Facebook due to “left wing pressure.”
url: https://fullfact.org/online/lee-rigby-football-facebook/
title: A Lee Rigby charity football Facebook page was taken down due to a hacking attempt - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The page was removed from Facebook, but the company says this was due to a hacking attempt. It has since been reinstated.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/local-lockdown-north-england/
title: Facebook post on lockdown rule changes are right for certain parts of England - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The rules of lockdown have changed. Households can no longer mix inside a residential property or garden. That means families should not visit another family at their home.

textual_rating:
This is correct for Greater Manchester and parts of Lancashire and West Yorkshire as of 31 July 2020.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-10-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Extinction-Rebellion-Diesel/
title: This is not a diesel generator at an Extinction Rebellion protest - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect. This photo was taken at an American music festival.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photo shows a diesel generator and says there are patio heaters going at full blast in the bar area, at an Extinction Rebellion protest.


claimant: Atiku Abubakar
claim_date: 2018-08-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/out-africa-facts-about-eu-tariffs-african-exports/
title: Out of Africa: the facts about EU tariffs on African exports - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-09-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The EU imposes 50% tariffs on rice, maize and other cereals and 300% tariffs on processed sugar imported from African countries.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. The EU does charge tariffs on imports of all these goods, but most African countries aren’t subject to them


text: Promises of investment in Wales for electrification and a tidal lagoon have now been withdrawn.
claimant: Leanne Wood
claim_date: 2018-06-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/electric-railways-and-tidal-lagoons-has-wales-lost-out/
title: Electric railways and tidal lagoons: has Wales lost out? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The planned electrification of the Great Western main line between Swansea and Cardiff has been cancelled, as has a planned tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-06-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/spanish-chemtrails/
title: The Spanish Meteorological Agency has not ‘confessed’ to using chemtrails - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-08T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This rumour has been circulating for years and there’s no evidence that it’s true.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Spanish Meteorological Agency has confessed that Spain is being sprayed with lead dioxide, silver iodide and diatomite.


text: Unapproved vaccine trials don’t end until 2023.
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:
The Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccine trials have an estimated completion date of April 2023, in order to take into account samples from participants collected up to two years after their final vaccine. This doesn’t mean they are unsafe for use now.


text: The police starting salary was £24,000 in 2010 and £23,000 in 2018.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2018-08-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/pay-rises-how-much-do-nurses-police-teachers-and-mps-get-paid/
title: Pay rises: how much do nurses, the police, teachers and MPs get paid? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-09-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These figures don’t account for inflation. In 2018 prices their starting salary has fallen from the equivalent of £27,400 in 2010 to around £23,300 in 2018.


text: There are 52,000 nurses in training.
claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2017-07-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/whats-happening-nursing-numbers/
title: What’s happening to nursing numbers? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-07-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Department of Health says this figure comes from Health Education England. We’ve asked them for more information.


text: The UK has the worst Covid death toll in Europe.
claimant: Keir Starmer
claim_date: 2021-05-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/keir-starmer-angela-rayner-uk-covid-death-toll-europe/
title: The UK does not have the worst death toll in Europe, when you account for population - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
As of 25 May 2021, the UK had the 14th worst death toll in Europe when you factor in the size of the country. It has recorded more deaths than any other country, but it also has a much larger population than most.


text: Aborted male foetal cells called MRC-5 are in the Covid-19 vaccine.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/foetal-cells-covid-vaccine/
title: There are no foetal cells in the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The cell strain referenced isn’t used to manufacture the vaccine. A different cell strain, derived from kidney cells taken from a female foetus aborted in the 1970s was used to propagate the virus for the vaccine. These cells don’t make it to the final product.


text: CDC document confirms that SARS-CoV-2 has never been isolated.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-09-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/CDC-document-viral-isolates/
title: CDC has not said SARS-CoV-2 has never been isolated - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is wrong. The document was talking about a process used to understand the ‘lower limit of detection’ during the creation of PCR tests. SARS-CoV-2 has been isolated many times.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-03-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/emergency-phone-alert-gdpr/
title: Emergency alert phone test on 23 April will not ‘breach GDPR’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Mobile phone networks are in breach of GDPR by providing your phone number to another agency to allow emergency alerts.

textual_rating:
False. When an alert is triggered, mobile phone masts broadcast it to every compatible phone and tablet within range. The government doesn’t use personal data, like your mobile phone number, to do this.


text: There’s a backlog of 50,000 migrants that are currently in hotels.
claimant: GB News
claim_date: 2023-08-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/alex-chalk-backlog-figures/
title: The number of asylum seekers in hotels has increased - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
As of 30 June 2023 there were 50,546 asylum seekers being housed in hotels, according to data published by the Home Office.


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
textual_rating: It is a common practice to count a “case” without symptoms for many infectious diseases.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The reported numbers of cases of Covid-19 are misleading because asymptomatic people with a positive test would not normally be counted as a “case”.


text: People who comment on and share a Facebook post can get six free passes to Alton Towers.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/alton-towers-giveaway-facebook-fake/
title: Fake Alton Towers giveaway shared thousands of times - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A spokesperson for the theme park confirmed this is not a real offer affiliated with the theme park.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/experts-do-not-advise-cleaning-swimming-pools-vodka/
title: Experts do not advise cleaning swimming pools with vodka - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video shows a DIY “trick” for cleaning a swimming pool by pouring a bottle of vodka into the water every day for four days.

textual_rating:
Experts do not advise using vodka as a pool cleaning method. While the pool appears cleaner in the video, vodka doesn’t have the same sanitisation properties as chlorine and long-term use may result in continual issues such as algae and cloudiness.


text: There is human blood in vaccines.
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:
Some vaccines use an ingredient called human serum albumin, which is derived from human blood. But the blood from donors is screened before use to prevent any contamination.


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
text:
Help to Buy ISAs won’t help you buy a home, because you still need to provide an initial exchange deposit when the contracts are signed and you haven’t been given the government bonus at that point.

textual_rating:
Since initial exchange deposits are negotiated between the buyer and the seller, it’s possible to negotiate them down. The seller can agree to receive the rest of the money when the purchase completes.


claimant: Esther McVey
claim_date: 2019-06-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/counting-esther-mcveys-record-employment/
title: Counting Esther McVey’s record on employment - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct, but this rise can’t be attributed to any one particular reason or policy.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There are nearly one million more disabled people in work since Disability Confident was launched in 2013.


text: Staff at Pret a Manger will be paid up to £14.10 per hour.
claimant: British Medical Association
claim_date: 2023-03-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/bma-junior-doctors-hourly-pay/
title: The average junior doctor gets paid more than £14 an hour - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct. From 1 April 2023, staff in Pret a Manger shops will earn between £10.60 and £14.10 per hour.


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
textual_rating: Correct.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A report shows the poorest 10% of households gained around 13% in their incomes due to tax and benefit changes under Labour, while the richest lost almost 9%.


text: There has been a rise in deaths from heart disease.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2019-05-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/heart-disease-death-rate/
title: The heart disease death rate isn’t increasing - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The number of under 75s in the UK dying from heart disease increased slightly between 2016 and 2017. But the total number of deaths from heart disease decreased.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/petrol-saving-fuel-tips-money/
title: Popular tips on filling cars with petrol don’t offer big savings - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Buying petrol first thing in the morning provides better value for money as cold fuel has a higher density and therefore greater volume.

textual_rating:
False. Petrol stations store their fuel in underground tanks where the temperature remains constant, even when the outside weather is particularly hot or cold.


text: Over 200,000 UK businesses trade with the EU, helping them create jobs here in the UK.
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/stronger-facts-leaflet-business/
title: Stronger In "facts" leaflet: business - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
HMRC figures from 2012 found almost 200,000 VAT-registered traders in the UK which traded goods with other EU member states. They said that the figure could be “significantly higher” if it included companies that traded in services.


text: Just Stop Oil bankrolls the Labour Party.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-02-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/just-stop-oil-funding-labour-pmqs/
title: No evidence that Just Stop Oil ‘bankrolls’ the Labour Party - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Although a major backer of Just Stop Oil also donates to the Labour Party, we can find no evidence that the protest group makes donations to the party.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2022-03-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-nazanin-photo/
review_date: 2022-03-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The photo has been altered. In the original, all three are smiling.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A picture shows Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe smiling in a selfie while her husband and daughter look despondent.

title:
Fake Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe photo makes it look like husband and daughter aren’t smiling - Full Fact


text: A pilot scheme where people had to show ID before voting was a success.
claimant: The Labour Party
claim_date: 2018-07-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/voter-id-scheme/
title: Has the government’s voter ID scheme been a success? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The scheme was piloted in five councils in May 2018, and the government said it was a “success”, as the “overwhelming majority” of voters had the right documents. Around twice as many people were blocked from voting in this pilot than there have been cases of voter fraud from 2010 to 2017 in the UK.


text: The UK’s net EU contribution is larger than 26 EU nations combined (all but Germany).
claimant: British Voice
claim_date: 2018-08-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/claim-about-uks-eu-contribution-correct-meaningless/
title: This claim about the UK's EU contribution is correct, but meaningless - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Technically correct, but this statistic is meaningless. In 2017 the UK’s net contribution to the EU was 18% of all net contributors.


claimant: Nick Clegg
claim_date: 2015-04-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/how-many-young-people-could-benefit-help-rent/
title: How many young people could benefit from Help-to-Rent? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-04-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An estimated 2m young people in their 20s and 30s can't find the money needed to move out of their parent's home.

textual_rating:
In 2013 there were 2.4m people between the age of 20 and 34 who both lived at home and had a job. Their specific reasons for not having moved out are not known though.


text: Labour’s spending plans would cost £1.2 trillion over five years.
claimant: Conservative party
claim_date: 2019-11-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/conservative-claim-labour-1-trillion/
review_date: 2019-11-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
There are serious problems with the Conservatives’ claim that Labour would spend £1.2 trillion - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Labour hasn’t published its 2019 manifesto yet, so nobody knows. This is largely based on Labour’s previous policy announcements. Many of the figures behind this estimate are uncertain or based on flawed assumptions.


text: In real terms over the last three months, wages have gone down not up.
claimant: Andrew Marr
claim_date: 2021-10-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/marr-johnson-wages/
title: Marr wrong to claim PM wasn’t telling the truth on wages - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Between April 2021 and July 2021 total pay remained stable, while regular pay fell 0.6% in real terms.


text: Stop and search is achieving a higher arrest rate.
claimant: Liz Truss
claim_date: 2018-04-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/stop-and-search-arrest-rate/
title: Stop and search: higher arrest rate? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. The arrest rate in England and Wales rose from 8% in 2009/10 to 17% in 2016/17. The number of stop and searches fell from 1.3 million to 300,000 between those years.


text: The government spent £100 billion on Trident.
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:
It’s hard to tell. The government expects replacing the current Trident nuclear submarine missile system will eventually cost around £31 billion, and it has committed to spending at least that. Suggestions for the future in-service costs of the system range from £70 billion to £150 billion over 30 years.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-03-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-autistic-boy-brandon-hank/
title: Fake missing autistic boy and dog posts go viral on social media - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-03T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The images are of a boy in the US being reunited with his lost family pet.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An autistic boy called Brandon Smith has gone missing with a dog called Hank in various locations around the UK.


claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2021-10-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/largest-spending-increase-2021/
review_date: 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Today's budget increases total departmental spending over this Parliament by £150 billion. That’s the largest increase this century, with spending growing by 3.8% a year in real terms.

title:
Was the Chancellor right on the Budget increasing departmental spending by the most this century? - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Departmental budgets (which cover about half of all public spending) are forecast to increase by more over this parliament, in real terms, than any other parliament this century. But they increased more on average each year during the 2001-2005 parliament.


text: Six people were stabbed in London on Saturday 6 July 2019, including three 12 year-olds.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/police-pride-london-stabbings/
title: Metropolitan police taking part in London Pride were on duty - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s correct. We don’t know their exact ages, but the three children stabbed were reportedly all younger than 12.


text: A poll has shown that Britain wants to quit the EU.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2016-02-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/poll-does-not-prove-brits-want-quit-eu/
title: Poll does not prove Brits want to quit the EU - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-02-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The survey wasn’t representative, so doesn’t tell us much about what voters as a whole want. Taken together, polls have so far suggested a slight lead for the ‘remain’ camp so far.


text: As of 2 November, case numbers are spiking.
claimant: Christine Amanpour of CNN
claim_date: 2021-11-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/november-2021-covid-escalating/
title: Why are media outlets reporting the Covid epidemic is escalating? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
At this point, new infections in the UK were falling. The total number of people with Covid-19, as opposed to newly diagnosed people, may have still been increasing.


text: 51% of people working for the NHS aren’t clinically qualified.
claimant: Paul Nuttall
claim_date: 2016-12-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/half-nhs-not-clinically-qualified/
title: Is half of the NHS not clinically qualified? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
51% of people working for the NHS are clinically qualified. Looking at it another way, that’s 53% of full-time equivalents.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-01-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pin-needle-stroke/
title: A needle cannot save the life of someone having a stroke - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-02T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: You absolutely should not do this. If you suspect someone is having a stroke, call 999.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
You can save someone’s life if they’re having a stroke using a needle. If someone is having a stroke, sterilise a needle then use it to prick the tips of all 10 fingers of that person. After their fingers start to bleed, prick the soft parts of their ear. Then send them to a hospital.


text: Six million people earn less than the living wage.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2016-09-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/six-million-jobs-pay-less-living-wage/
title: Six million jobs pay less than the living wage - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Six million jobs pay less than the living wage. That’s not the same as people. An estimated 5.4 million people earned below this level, according to earlier data.


text: Being on this pill is associated with depression.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/what-are-possible-side-effects-contraceptive-pill-rigevidon/
title: What are the possible side effects of the contraceptive pill Rigevidon? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This brand’s advice leaflet says Rigevidon is associated with “mood swings including depression”. Guidance on whether the combined contraceptive pill can cause depression is unclear.


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:
Mercury (aka thimerosal or thiomersal) is in vaccines and can damage brain, gut, liver, bone marrow, nervous system and kidneys, is linked to autoimmune disorder, autism.

textual_rating:
Thiomersal isn’t in any UK vaccines any more. This is down to concern around a slightly different mercury-based chemical.


text: Europe is looking at 6%, and the United States 4%, in terms of interest rates.
claimant: Sky News
claim_date: 2023-08-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/halving-inflation-target/
title: Will the government meet its inflation pledge? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t correct. The European Central Bank has increased the interest rate in the Eurozone to 3.75%, while in the US, the Federal Reserve has increased rates to a target range of 5.25%-5.5%.


text: 60 ambulance stations have closed since 2010.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-01-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-viral-image-factcheck/
title: NHS viral image factcheck - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We don’t know how many ambulance stations have closed since 2010 as national figures on this aren’t regularly published.


text: Ventilators and intensive care units were never used in Russia.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-04-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/russia-autopsy-covid-5g/
title: Claims about Russia, Covid-19 and 5G are almost all false - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is untrue. For example, one study in Russia looked at more than 1,500 Covid-19 patients in ICU, many of whom were given respiratory support via ventilation.


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:
There were 8,244 full time equivalent health visitors in the NHS as of December 2017, the lowest number since August 2013.


text: To the end of 2021, there have been 18,939 Covid-19 deaths with comorbidities in the UK.
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
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the number of deaths registered to the end of 2021, in England and Wales, not the UK, of people who died of Covid-19 without comorbidities, not with comorbidities.


claimant: Mark Drakeford
claim_date: 2022-02-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/wales-scotland-cost-of-living-council-tax/
title: Wales and Scotland are getting money to fund a council tax rebate - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There’s no extra money for Wales or Scotland to deliver the same council tax rebate scheme that was announced in England.

textual_rating:
The Welsh and Scottish governments are receiving money from the UK government as a result of the council tax rebate scheme, but other areas of its estimated budget have been revised downwards as a result of England’s provisional budget for those areas being revised downwards too.


text: The ‘Indian variant’ hasn’t affected the countries between India and the UK.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-05-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/indian-variants-sequencing/
title: The so-called ‘Indian variants’ have been found in lots of countries - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The B1.617 variants have been found across many continents, and many countries ‘between India and the UK’.


claimant: Jackie Doyle-Price
claim_date: 2018-08-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/could-opt-out-organ-donation-save-700-lives-year/
title: Could ‘opt-out’ organ donation save 700 lives a year? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Introducing an ‘opt-out’ system of organ donation in England could allow as many as 700 more lives to be saved a year.

textual_rating:
This is the government’s ambition but it’s based on very uncertain estimates, which in turn rely on a lot of assumptions. There is currently little evidence for how much changing the consent system actually improves transplant rates, if at all.


claimant: Rebecca Jane
claim_date: 2023-01-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/ukip-asylum-seeking-children-age-disputes/
title: UKIP wrong that half of unaccompanied children seeking asylum are found to be adults - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In 2020, 54% of lone child asylum claims actually turned out to be adults. In 2022, over 70% of lone child asylum claims were actually adults.

textual_rating:
In 2020, 50% of all resolved age dispute cases have involved asylum seekers who are ultimately found to be over 18. But it’s not correct to refer to these cases as the percentage of all unaccompanied asylum seeking children who turn out to be adults, as the majority of these applications do not become age disputes. The figure for 2022 is also too high, even when only looking at age dispute cases.


claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2016-02-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/revisiting-joint-enterprise-convictions/
title: Could killers convicted under 'joint enterprise' walk free from jail? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-02-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Hundreds of convicted killers could be released from prison after a recent change to the law on 'joint enterprise'.

textual_rating:
People convicted of a 'joint enterprise' killing can appeal but the Supreme Court stressed when changing the law that it wouldn't automatically overturn all such cases. It depends whether the change would be relevant to a particular case and on there being a "substantial injustice".


claimant: Philip Davies
claim_date: 2015-05-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/human-rights-court-pseudo-judges-or-super-judges/
title: Human rights court: "pseudo-judges" or super judges? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-07-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Many judges at the European Court of Human Rights aren't legally qualified, and are appointed politically.

textual_rating:
None of the judges at the Court are obviously unqualified based on their CVs, although they are voted in by a political body.


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:
Grenfell Tower was built by a Labour Council under Labour government in 2007-2008, when Sadiq Khan was the Housing Minister.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. Grenfell Tower was built in 1974 under a Conservative council. There was a Labour government at this time, but Sadiq Khan was not a minster: he was a young child in 1974.


text: Each asylum seeker living in a hotel will be paid £57 per week.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-10-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/asylum-seekers-Ipswich-hotel-payment/
title: Asylum seekers in hotels will not receive £57 per week - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
If an asylum seeker is placed in contingency accommodation such as a hotel, which offers meals, they are eligible for £8.24 per week to cover clothes, non-prescription medication and travel.


text: Covid-19 vaccines have not been tested and there are no medical studies underlying them.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/funeral-director-interview/
title: False claims from funeral director about facemasks, vaccines and the pandemic - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Covid-19 vaccine trials have been published in peer-reviewed journals. The data collection and analysis are ongoing, in order to allow up to two years of follow up on participants.


claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-01-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/elections-horizon-northern-ireland/
title: Elections on the horizon in Northern Ireland - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If there is no new deputy First Minister in Northern Ireland within a week, the law requires an election there.


text: Britain gives away £13 billion a year in foreign aid.
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-foreign-aid-budget-what-did-government-spend-2017/
title: The UK foreign aid budget: what did the government spend in 2017? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK spent £13.4 billion on foreign aid in 2016. Provisional figures for 2017 put the amount at just over £13.9 billion.


claimant: The Daily Telegraph
claim_date: 2022-01-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-pcr-lfd-self-isolation/
title: Telegraph wrong to claim removing PCR requirement will shorten self-isolation period - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Currently those without symptoms who test positive on a lateral flow are asked to order a PCR test and can only begin their isolation period when they receive the second result.

textual_rating:
False. The self-isolation period starts when someone becomes symptomatic or, if they don’t become symptomatic, from when they took their first positive test, whether that was a lateral flow or PCR test.


text: A photo reveals the interior of a “chemtrail plane”.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-03-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/chemtrail-plane-photo-patent/
title: Photo doesn’t show interior of ‘chemtrail plane’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The photo actually shows the inside of a firefighting plane. There is no evidence any of the equipment pictured is used to create “chemtrails”.


text: 21 million people in China have died of coronavirus.
claimant: International Business Times
claim_date: 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/china-covid-cases/
title: Mobile phone cancellations in China don’t prove that 21 million have died of Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This claim is based on the fall in the number of Chinese mobile phone subscriptions and shouldn’t be trusted.


text: Norway and Switzerland have to accept EU laws despite not being members in order to trade with it.
claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2016-03-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/norway-switzerland-eu-laws/
title: Norway, Switzerland and EU laws - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-03-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is about right. Both Norway and Switzerland keep out of some EU activities, such as the Common Agricultural Policy. But they bring many of their laws into line with EU rules, on the single market in particular. Norway incorporates single market rules as they’re made, while Switzerland accepts EU law from time to time in return for more market access.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/facebook-retracted-paper/
review_date: 2020-08-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
5G millimeter waves could be absorbed by skin cells acting as antennas, transferred to other cells and play the main role in producing coronaviruses in biological cells.

title:
A retracted paper linking 5G and coronavirus with no evidence is doing the rounds on Facebook - Full Fact

textual_rating:
There is absolutely no evidence that this is the case. A paper presenting this theory (with no proof) has since been retracted.


text: Charles Bronson attacked Ian Huntley in prison.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-08-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ian-huntley-charles-bronson/
title: Charles Bronson has not attacked Ian Huntley in prison - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is incorrect. Ian Huntley and Charles Bronson are in separate prisons and there are no reports of any similar attack.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/tetanus-risk-social-media/
title: Facebook post on tetanus jabs gets a lot wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Tetanus is an anaerobic bacteria meaning it can't survive in oxygenated environments and because blood has oxygen in it, if the wound bled, there is no risk of tetanus.

textual_rating:
Although the bacteria requires anaerobic conditions, the spores can survive in many different environments for a long time and therefore it is incorrect to say that a wound that bleeds eliminates any risk of tetanus.


text: Bacterial pneumonia is caused by people wearing masks and is massively on the rise.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/viral-influencer-video-full-false-covid-19-claims/
title: Viral influencer video full of false Covid-19 claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence that wearing a mask can cause bacterial pneumonia, or that deaths from pneumonia have increased.


claimant: David Icke
claim_date: 2021-04-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/david-icke-vaccines-artificial-intelligence/
title: There’s no AI in vaccines creating fertility problems in unvaccinated people - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Vaccinated people are “transmitting artificial intelligence synthetic ‘affliction’ to the unvaccinated” with multiple effects including menstruation/fertility issues.

textual_rating:
This is completely wrong. Covid-19 vaccines do not contain artificial intelligence, affect fertility or transmit anything to unvaccinated people.


claimant: Christopher Chope
claim_date: 2021-09-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/christopher-chope-vaccine-damage-bill/
title: MP makes unevidenced claims about vaccine damage - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government has produced a lot of information about the extent of vaccine damage including the Yellow Card scheme.

textual_rating:
It is misleading to equate Yellow Card reports with “vaccine damage”. The MHRA is very clear that reports of adverse events after vaccination cannot be treated as confirmed side effects, as there is no proven causal link.


text: Apple’s AirPod wireless earphones emit a dangerous amount of EMF radiation.
claimant: Tim Gray
claim_date: 2023-03-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/emf-bluetooth-health-effects/
title: AirPods haven’t been shown to be dangerous - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no good evidence of a link between normal exposure to electromagnetic fields from AirPods and negative health effects.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-08-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/legionnaires-masks/
title: You cannot catch Legionnaires’ disease from a mask - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: You cannot catch Legionnaires’ disease from a mask.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A woman was hospitalised with suspected Covid-19, only for her illness to be shown to be Legionnaires’ disease caught from a mask.


claimant: Javier Espinoza
claim_date: 2015-07-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/coasting-schools-three-strikes-and-youre-out/
title: Coasting schools: three strikes and you're out - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-07-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Three in four academy chains contain secondary schools which could be seen as 'coasting' under the government's definition.

textual_rating:
It's impossible to know yet how many schools will be labelled 'coasting', as it depends on performance in 2015 and 2016.


text: The opening lines of Amber Heard’s testimony were taken from the 1999 movie The Talented Mr Ripley.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-05-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/amber-heard-film-quote/
title: Amber Heard did not quote The Talented Mr Ripley during trial - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Ms Heard did not begin her testimony with this quote, and did not say these words at any point during her first day on the stand.


text: Nearly 5 billion plastic straws are currently used in the UK each year.
claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2019-05-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/environment/how-many-plastic-straws/
title: How many plastic straws do we use? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The latest government estimate for the number used in England alone is around 4.7 billion. The estimate itself is very uncertain.


text: BlackRock now owns 75% of ancestry.com.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ancestry-ownership/
title: BlackRock doesn’t own 75% of Ancestry - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A 75% stake in Ancestry was acquired by a different, though similarly named investment management firm, Blackstone, in 2020.


claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/scotland/has-snp-ever-been-fined-election-spending-mistakes/
title: Has the SNP ever been fined for election spending mistakes? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
All major parties, and the Scottish National Party, have been fined for mistakes made on national election expenses.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. The Conservatives, Labour, and the Liberal Democrats have all been fined by the Electoral Commission. The Electoral Commission told us it has never issued the Scottish National Party with any kind of fine or sanction.


text: Muslims can’t use alcohol-based hand sanitiser as it is against their religion.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/leicester-covid-outbreak-islam/
title: Claims that Muslims caused Leicester’s Covid-19 outbreak are baseless - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Many Muslims consider it permissible to use alcohol-based hand sanitisers. There has been no suggestion that sanitiser use contributed to the Leicester outbreak.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2023-02-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/energy-prices-europe-comparison/
title: Viral ‘average energy cost’ Europe price list is not what it seems - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Average energy costs in the UK are €2,960, €650 in France and Belgium, €620 in Spain, €558 in Germany and Denmark, €546 in Holland, €545 in Austria and €543 in Norway, €476 in Finland and €174 in Poland.

textual_rating:
These are not average energy costs in each country. They are actually the wholesale prices of electricity per megawatt hour for a single hour in December 2022.


claimant: Labour Press
claim_date: 2015-04-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/whats-been-happening-tax-gap/
title: What's been happening to the tax gap? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-04-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Under Labour the tax gap was falling by £1.5bn/year. Under the Conservatives it has been increasing by £1bn/year.

textual_rating:
The numbers are accurate but very uncertain. The proportion of tax due but unpaid is lower under Labour but no longer falling.


text: Scotland subsidises England.
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. Public spending per person is higher in Scotland than across the UK as a whole. Scotland receives more public spending than it raises in tax.


text: EU nationals have fallen as a percentage of those joining the NHS.
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:
EU nationals made up 8% of new staff (whose nationality was known) joining the NHS in England in the year to June 2018. That compares to 11% in the year to June 2016. It’s possible that the number in June 2016 was unusually high.


text: Leeds City Council announced that Carillion was its preferred bidder for a contract last week.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2018-01-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/carillion-leeds-city-council/
title: Did a Labour-run council sign a PFI contract with Carillion in December? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Leeds City Council authorised the award of a contract worth £14 million to Carillion on 20 December 2017, although they did not sign the actual contract.


text: Maths and science has fallen to a record low in Scottish schools
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-01-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/scotland/johnson-education-claims/
review_date: 2020-02-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Scotland’s maths and science scores are falling in international tests but rising in national tests - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Scotland’s maths and science ranking has fallen to a record low in international league tables but attainment in national qualifications has risen


text: Britain has the highest rate of cocaine use among young adults in Europe.
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2018-07-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/are-young-people-taking-more-cocaine/
title: Are more young people taking cocaine? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We don’t have recent data for all European countries, but it’s likely – the percentage of 16-24 year olds in England and Wales who had taken cocaine in the past year exceeds all other countries we have data for.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-02-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-vaccines-natural-immunity/
title: The government hasn’t admitted Covid-19 vaccines damage your natural immune system - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The government hasn’t said this and there’s no evidence it’s true.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK government now admits that vaccines have damaged the natural immune system of those who have been double-vaccinated.


text: The £20 note shows a 5G tower giving off emissions and a coronavirus symbol.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/5g-coronavirus-20-note/
title: £20 notes don’t have a secret message about 5G and coronavirus - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-04-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The ‘5G tower’ is Margate Lighthouse and the ‘coronavirus’ is based on a famous staircase at the Tate Britain art gallery.


text: Approximately tens of thousands of people have suffered severe damage from Covid-19 vaccines.
claimant: Christopher Chope
claim_date: 2022-03-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/christopher-chope-vaccine-damage-GB-news/
review_date: 2022-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
No evidence for MP’s claims ‘tens of thousands of people’ have ‘suffered severe damage’ from vaccines - Full Fact

textual_rating:
There is no evidence for this. This claim is based on Yellow Card reporting, which is not a reliable indicator of proven side effects.


text: Each air strike in Syria will cost £508,000, enough to pay for up to 20 public sector workers.
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/air-strikes-how-many-teachers-and-nurses-could-we-pay-instead/
title: Air strikes: how many teachers and nurses could we pay for instead? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-12-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The £508,000 figure is a rough estimate, and estimating how many workers it would "pay for" is trickier than you might think.


text: Rapper DMX had a Covid-19 vaccine days before he died of a heart attack.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-04-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/no-evidence-rapper-dmx-had-covid-19-vaccine-his-death/
title: No evidence rapper DMX had Covid-19 vaccine before his death - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There’s no evidence DMX had a Covid-19 vaccine just before his heart attack and no evidence that Covid-19 vaccines cause heart attacks.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-06-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccine-covid-deaths-summer/
title: Government modelling not proof of vaccine ‘genocide’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A government document showing that 60-70% of Covid deaths over the summer will be among the vaccinated is proof that vaccines are intended for genocide.

textual_rating:
False. This reflects the fact that the majority of elderly and vulnerable people will have been vaccinated, and the number of those for whom the vaccine was ineffective will be larger than the number who are not vaccinated.


text: Apprenticeship funding is being cut by 30-50%
claimant: Richard Burden
claim_date: 2015-09-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/apprenticeship-funding-going-or-down/
title: Apprenticeship funding: going up or down? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Funding rates for many types of apprenticeship will fall under new rules, set to be introduced in May. Some popular apprenticeship schemes for 16-18 year olds could receive between 30% and 50% less funding for each apprentice, depending on their circumstances. At the same time, the total amount of funding available for all apprenticeships will increase.


text: There are nearly 5,000 more nurses and midwives now than there were in 2010.
claimant: David Lidington
claim_date: 2017-01-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/number-doctors-and-nurses-nhs-england/
title: The number of doctors and nurses in NHS England - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t a fair comparison. The most recent comparable figures show the increase was more than that: about 6,000 more FTE nurses, health visitors and midwives between September 2010 and 2016.


text: Prisoners in the UK can watch TV all day for free.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-06-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/TV-licences-pensioners-prisoners/
title: Prisoners don’t have to pay the TV licence whereas most pensioners will soon have to - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Prisoners rewarded for good behaviour can have a TV in their prison cell. Prisoners are exempt from the TV licence fee, but a rental charge of £1 per cell per week applies.


text: 40% of fines for pupil absence go unpaid.
claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/how-many-truanting-fines-go-unpaid-parents/
title: How many truanting fines go unpaid by parents? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. About 20% of fines went unpaid in England in 2012/13. 63% were paid within the maximum time limit, but some of the remainder were withdrawn rather than unpaid.


text: MPs get £5,435 to feed each of their own children, on top of their salary.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2021-08-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/MP-expenses-children/
title: What extra expenses can MPs claim if they have children? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
If MPs are outside of London they can claim the cost of rent on a home either in London or their constituency. As part of this rental budget, they can claim an extra £5,500 per child under 18, up to three children.


text: Almost a third of secondary school pupils in England missed about 10% of school last year.
claimant: Today
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:
This is broadly correct. Around 28% secondary school pupils were persistently absent—that is, missed at least 10% of their school sessions—in the 2022/23 academic year.


text: 8% of stop and searches are knife crime related
claimant: Iain Dale
claim_date: 2018-04-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/how-many-stop-and-searches-are-knife-crime-related/
title: How many stop and searches are knife crime related? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We can’t say for certain. The claim refers to London, where in the first three months of 2018, 9% of stop and searches that led to a “positive outcome”, were for “weapons, points and blades”. This category includes things like acid and screwdrivers as well as knives. We don’t have the same figure for England and Wales.


text: Only a tiny proportion of rapes ever reach trial.
claimant: Jo Swinson
claim_date: 2018-02-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/how-many-reported-rapes-go-to-trial/
title: Reported rapes that reach trial - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-02-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Around one in ten rapes or attempted rapes reported to police in England and Wales are brought to trial. Research from 2013 estimated that between one in twenty and one in thirty rape cases end up at trial.


text: 800 Sure Start children’s centres have been closed in England since 2010.
claimant: Angela Rayner MP
claim_date: 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/not-so-sure-sure-start-figures/
title: Not so sure of Sure Start figures - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is only part of the story. There are over 1,000 fewer Sure Start centres, but only 300 fewer children’s centres overall. Around 700 sites still operate but no longer meet the official definition of a Sure Start centre.


text: 1,400 staff already investigate benefit fraud and another 2,000 are being hired.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/benefits-tax-fraud-evasion-dwp/
title: Figures on benefit and tax fraud investigators misrepresented - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The DWP employed 8,000 staff as fraud investigators in 2019/20. A further 1,400 investigators are being recruited along with a further 2,000 to review Universal Credit claims.


text: In Britain, you’re allowed to wave terrorist flags.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-07-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/union-jack-arrest/
title: You almost certainly won’t get arrested for flying a British flag - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There are laws preventing the display of terrorist flags, but the police have been known to not arrest people for this.


text: Asymptomatic transmission of Covid-19 is a hoax.
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:
This is untrue. While studies have shown a wide range of results on how common asymptomatic transmission is, there is clear evidence that it has contributed significantly to the spread of the virus.


text: Prisoner Charles Bronson is due to be released from prison on 21 December.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/charles-bronson-prison-release/
title: No plans to release Charles Bronson in December - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. A Ministry of Justice spokesperson confirmed to Full Fact that there is no planned release date for Bronson.


claimant: Nigel Farage
claim_date: 2016-06-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/have-5000-jihadis-come-eu/
title: Have 5,000 jihadis come into the EU? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-06-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The head of the EU law enforcement agency says that 5,000 terrorists have come into the EU because of its migration policy.

textual_rating:
Rob Wainwright denies that he said any such thing. Europol’s official position is that up to 5,000 EU citizens may have been radicalised and travelled to fight in the Middle East, but perhaps a third of those have returned to Europe, of which a majority aren’t considered a threat.


text: We spend £22 billion on social care.
claimant: Anna Soubry
claim_date: 2018-05-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/health-and-social-care-what-do-we-spend/
title: Health and social care: What do we spend? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Roughly correct looking at public spending on adult social care across the UK in 2016/17. Around £10 billion was spent on children’s social care.


text: The average age of a Conservative Party member is 72.
claimant: The Bow Group
claim_date: 2017-10-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/how-old-average-conservative-party-member/
title: How old is the average Conservative Party member? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-10-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s almost impossible to know exactly. Recent academic research suggests that 57 is probably the best estimate.


text: Asylum seekers are housed in four-star hotels.
claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-03-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/asylum-seekers-benefit-payments-hotels/
title: Asylum seekers do not receive £175 a week - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Some asylum seekers have been placed in four-star hotels but they may also be placed in flats, houses or hostels. Asylum seekers have to accept whatever accommodation is offered to them.


text: The government is spending £14 billion on primary and secondary education between now and 2022/23.
claimant: Downing Street twitter account
claim_date: 2019-08-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/14bn-spent-education/
title: Is £14 billion being spent on education? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The increase is £4.3 billion by 2022/23 once you account for inflation. The £14 billion figure is unhelpful as it is the figure you get if you add up all the extra money spent on education in each year to 2022/23 compared to 2019/20 and doesn’t account for inflation.


text: The government spent £2 million on a royal wedding.
claimant: Rachel Swindon
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:
We don’t know exactly, but £2 million is probably in the right ballpark in terms of the policing costs for Princess Eugenie’s upcoming wedding.


claimant: Kwasi Kwarteng
claim_date: 2022-09-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/kwasi-kwarteng-mini-budget/
title: Do the mini-Budget tax cuts favour the rich? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The tax cuts announced in the mini-Budget on 23 September favour people “right across the income scale”.

textual_rating:
Income tax-payers across the income scale will benefit to some extent, but people with higher incomes will benefit much more.


claimant: The Expose
claim_date: 2022-01-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/january-2022-expose-vaccinated-covid/
title: UKHSA data reaffirms that vaccines work against Omicron - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The latest data from the UKHSA appears to show Covid-19 vaccines do not prevent hospitalisation or death from the disease.

textual_rating:
False. No vaccine is 100% effective, but the Covid-19 vaccines are highly effective against hospitalisation and death. The data from the UKHSA cannot be used to estimate vaccine effectiveness.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-01-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/labour-conference-flags-banned-2019/
title: These claims about the 2019 Labour conference are incorrect - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
At the 2019 Labour conference, working class white members were charged more to attend than ethnic minorities.

textual_rating:
There was a planned discount for ethnic minority members for a 2018 regional party conference. These plans were scrapped after the UK’s equalities watchdog intervened.


text: No vaccine has been tested to see if it causes cancer.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccines-cancer-studies/
title: There’s no evidence that any current vaccines cause cancer - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In the UK, all vaccines have to undergo a number of trials, usually over a period of years, to check if they cause any side effects.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-01-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/swimming-pool-france-social-distancing/
title: Photos of swimming pool with social distancing screens is genuine - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is genuine footage taken at the reopening of a spa in France.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Photos of a swimming pool with visitors placed between social distancing screens in the water are not real.


text: Social media users could win a motorhome in exchange for sharing and liking a Facebook post.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-01-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/camper-van-giveaway-facebook/
title: Campervan shared in Facebook post not part of so-called giveaway - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The motorhome pictured in the Facebook post is owned by a UK business and is currently for sale. It is not involved in any giveaway.


text: In England, contact tracing costs £1700 per head.
claimant: Ruth Jones
claim_date: 2020-11-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/ruth-jones-wales-contact-tracing/
title: Labour MP contact tracing claim at PMQs out by factor of ten - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is based on a calculation which overestimates the cost by a factor of 10. £12 billion has been allocated to testing and tracing by the UK government, but this is not just for England and so cannot be compared to the costs specific to Wales.


text: US food standards allow for rat hairs in paprika.
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 hair in paprika, beyond which enforcement action is mandatory.


text: An NHS consultant will receive a pension worth £73,000 per year.
claimant: Stephen Barclay
claim_date: 2023-08-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/steven-barclay-nhs-consultant-pensions/
title: Health secretary Steve Barclay wrong to claim NHS consultants receive tax-free pensions - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The amount of pension a consultant might be entitled to will vary according to their individual circumstances.


text: There were 14 deaths in children aged 12 to 17 who had the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine.
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
textual_rating:
14 deaths were reported in the US after the Pfizer vaccine but the CDC concluded none were caused by the vaccine.


text: 120,000 more six year olds are passing the phonics screening check.
claimant: Nicky Morgan, Education Secretary
claim_date: 2015-11-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/phonics-are-more-six-year-olds-track-become-confident-readers/
title: Phonics: are more six year olds on track to become confident readers? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-11-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The proportion of six year olds reaching the expected level in phonics screening check has increased by 19 percentage points from 2012 to 2015 - the equivalent of 120,000 more children meeting the standard in 2015.


text: Norway has deported 1,600 Somalis because the situation in their home country has improved.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-07-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/norway-somalia-refugee-deportations/
review_date: 2023-07-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Review of Somalian refugee status did not lead to 1,600 people being deported from Norway - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The Norwegian government did review around 1,400 cases involving people from Somalia who had been granted refugee status in Norway, to assess if conditions in their home country had changed to such an extent that they no longer needed international protection. But a government spokesperson said “very few” of these cases actually saw their refugee status revoked.


claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2022-06-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/male-fertility-pfizer-depopulation/
title: Study on male fertility doesn’t show depopulation plan - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Pfizer’s mRNA Covid-19 vaccine temporarily impairs semen concentration and total motile count amongst donors which is evidence it was part of a plan to depopulate the world.

textual_rating:
A paper looking at 37 sperm donors did find these markers were temporarily reduced. There’s no evidence that the vaccine has any lasting effect on fertility or is evidence of a depopulation plan.


text: Families could suffer a £2,000-a-year average hit from the cost of living crisis.
claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2022-02-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/mirror-cost-of-living/
review_date: 2022-02-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Mirror’s claim that households will be £2,000 a year poorer overstates impact of inflation - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This figure is based on a calculation which overstates the impact of inflation, by factoring in both how much prices will rise and how much ‘real wages’—which already allow for inflation—will fall.


text: The C-17 aircraft filmed leaving Kabul airport was inflatable.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-08-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/afghanistan-kabul-plane-inflatable/
title: Kabul plane was not inflatable decoy - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence this is true. The post compares a video with a still image. Other footage of the aircraft does not show it moving in the same way an inflatable would.


text: Pepsi uses a flavouring made of aborted human foetal cells.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pepsi-foetal-flavouring/
title: Pepsi doesn’t use a flavouring made from aborted foetal cells - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The cells in question are not flavourings themselves but used in flavouring development. Regardless, Pepsi say their flavourings are not developed using these cells.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-12-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Japan-US-vaccine-comparisons/
title: Comparisons between Japan and US infant vaccination programs are inaccurate - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Japan has the lowest infant death rate, no child under two is vaccinated. The US has the highest infant death rate and gives 28 doses of vaccines by age two.

textual_rating:
Japan does not have the lowest infant mortality rate in the world, nor does the US have the highest. It is also not true that Japan doesn’t vaccinate children under two years old.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-04-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/viral-video-covid-vaccine/
title: Influencer video full of untrue vaccine claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The MHRA put out a tender for Artificial Intelligence (AI) to handle reports of adverse Covid-19 vaccine reactions.

textual_rating:
This is true. In November 2020 it was reported that GenPact, a professional services firm, had been awarded a £1.5m contract to build an AI tool that could process “the expected high volume” of reports of adverse reactions occurring after, though not necessarily caused by,  Covid-19 vaccination.


claimant: Owen Smith
claim_date: 2017-12-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/brexit-impact-assessments/
title: Brexit impact assessments: did the government bluff about their existence? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-12-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
David Davis and Theresa May said on nine separate occasions in the House of Commons that they'd done, or were doing... around 58 sectoral analyses

textual_rating:
We have found ten cases where Mr Davis, one of his ministers, or Theresa May referred to or acknowledged the existence of 50+ sectoral analyses or assessments in the House of Commons or at a select committee.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-02-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/fuel-bank-voucher-49/
title: Viral posts about £49 fuel vouchers are false - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Anyone facing financial hardship with less than £4 on a prepaid energy meter can call and ask for a £49 fuel voucher twice a year.

textual_rating:
This is not an established scheme across the UK. Financial support with energy bills is available but the claim that everyone is entitled to a £49 voucher twice a year is incorrect.


claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2022-03-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/boris-johnson-vulnerable-refugees-UK-eu/
title: Boris Johnson’s claims on UK accepting people fleeing conflict miss vital context - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK has taken more vulnerable people fleeing theatres of conflict since 2015 than any other country in Europe.

textual_rating:
The figures Boris Johnson is referring to only show the numbers accepted through resettlement schemes. We don't have any reliable comparative data for the number of vulnerable people fleeing “theatres of conflict”, but figures show that other European countries have accepted far more refugees in total.


text: Sodium bicarbonate is a lethal poison to all cancers.
claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2023-01-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/sodium-bicarbonate-cancer-cure/
title: Sodium bicarbonate is not ‘lethal’ to all cancers - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There’s no evidence sodium bicarbonate can be used to cure cancer. Some studies have looked at its use in reducing tumour pH levels, but none have suggested it could be used as a cancer treatment in itself.


text: In the UK we get 52 weeks of maternity pay. The EU sets maternity pay at 14 weeks.
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:
This is incorrect for the UK. Maternity pay can be for up to 39 weeks. The EU minimum standard is 14 weeks of paid maternity leave.


claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-07-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-Guardian-article-looting-France/
title: A ‘Guardian’ opinion article supporting looting in France is fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Guardian has published an opinion piece by lawyer Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu who says she supports looting in France because it is “reparations” for slavery.

textual_rating:
This is not a real article published by the Guardian. Dr Mos-Shogbamimu has confirmed that she has not written any such opinion piece.


text: BBC presenters removed their poppies during a broadcast.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-10-30T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2020-11-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/online/bbc-presenters-did-remove-their-poppies-they-were-wearing-them-earlier-bbc-guidelines-allow/

title:
BBC presenters did remove their poppies as they were wearing them earlier than BBC guidelines allow - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is correct. It happened as the poppies were mistakenly worn before the date set out in BBC guidelines.


text: Most generic sunscreens on the market contain benzenes which are a cancer-causing agent.
claimant: CVCWellness
claim_date: 2023-05-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/sunscreen-benzene-skin-cancer/
title: False claims about cancer causing chemical in sunscreen - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Benzene is cancer-causing. It is not used as an ingredient in sunscreens. While contamination is an ongoing issue, the evidence doesn’t show that most products contain it. One 2021 study found just over a quarter of the sunscreens they tested were contaminated, but most had very small amounts of benzene and did not contain enough to meet the FDA’s recall threshold.


text: The 1939 Cancer Act makes researching cancer cures illegal.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/cancer-act-illegal-cures/
title: The Cancer Act doesn’t ban the researching of cancer cures - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. It makes advertising cancer cures or treatments illegal unless it’s to certain groups, mainly those involved in the medical profession. It doesn’t mention research at all.


text: Homeless deaths soar by 24% as 597 people die in a single year.
claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2018-12-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/deaths-homeless-people/
title: Deaths of homeless people in England and Wales up 24% since 2013 - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-12-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct according to new estimates for England and Wales. The Office for National Statistics says this is a conservative estimate and the real number may still be higher.


text: French workers retire 6 years earlier.
claimant: Twitter account
claim_date: 2023-01-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-france-pension-comparisons/
title: How wages and pensions in the UK and France compare - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The legal minimum retirement age at which someone can claim their pension in France is currently 62, while in the UK it’s currently 66. The gap in actual average retirement ages may be different.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-04-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccine-shedding-side-effects-unvaccinated/
title: Being near to people vaccinated against Covid-19 won’t give you side effects - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
You can get side effects of Covid-19 vaccines simply by being in close proximity to someone who has had the vaccine.

textual_rating:
This is false. There is nothing in the Covid-19 vaccines used in the UK that could cause vaccine shedding.


text: Keir Starmer voted against a 2.1% NHS staff pay rise.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2021-03-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-pay-rise-march-2021/
title: Clearing up the NHS pay debate - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. There has never been a vote specifically on raising NHS pay by 2.1%. The NHS Funding Bill which committed to minimum total levels of NHS funding was passed unopposed.


claimant: Barnardo's
claim_date: 2020-06-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/barnardos-foster-care-coronavirus/
review_date: 2020-07-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The number of British children who need foster care has risen by 44% during the pandemic, children’s charity Barnardo’s has warned.

title:
Data from Barnardo’s doesn’t show the number of children needing foster care has grown 44% - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Barnardo’s has seen a 44% rise in the number of referrals to its fostering services from councils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. 

But that doesn’t mean the number of children needing foster care has risen by 44%.


text: 80% of children are not being tested for coronavirus.
claimant: Kate Green MP
claim_date: 2021-06-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/school-covid-testing/
title: Why school testing data doesn’t tell the whole story - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is based on data which only includes tests reported, not the number of tests done. It’s impossible to say what proportion of children in England are being tested for Covid-19.


text: The flu kills up to 650,000 people worldwide each year.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-01-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/flu-deaths-worldwide-sticker/
title: Estimates of 650,000 annual flu deaths can’t be compared to Covid-19 deaths - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the WHO’s upper estimate of annual worldwide flu-related deaths, with a lower estimate of 290,000.


claimant: Allison Pearson
claim_date: 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/pearson-telegraph-whitty-vallance/
title: Telegraph wrong on Whitty and Vallance statements - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-12-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Last week Sir Patrick Vallance and Prof Chris Whitty presented a graph which cherry-picked several hospitals on course to run out of beds, despite falling or flat rates of Covid-19 bed occupancy across the country.

textual_rating:
Sir Patrick and Professor Whitty did not present any data on individual hospital bed occupancy figures last week. This may refer to data they presented at the end of October. On 26 November Sir Patrick said the number of Covid-19 patients in hospital was flattening.


text: Children and adults have the same chance of getting ill from Covid-19.
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2020-05-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/infection-illness-children-coronavirus/
title: Testing positive for Covid-19 doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll get ill - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The ONS found, with a degree of uncertainty, that there was no evidence that the rate of infection differed by age group, but being infected doesn’t necessarily mean you become ill and display symptoms.


text: The BBC did not report on these queues.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-01-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/dover-queues-seen-from-space/
title: Dover lorry queues can be seen from space, like most UK traffic can - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The BBC News website did publish a local report on the queues that day. We don’t know if the stories appeared on BBC televised news.


text: Universal credit is already being trialled in the UK.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-06-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/world-economic-forum-cashless-15-minute-central-bank/
title: The World Economic Forum isn’t planning the ‘end of national sovereignty’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Universal credit is the name of the means-tested benefits and tax credit system for working-age people in the UK. If the post is referring to “universal basic income”, as mentioned earlier in the post, a small trial is planned in England and another trial for some care leavers is underway in Wales.


claimant: Labour Press
claim_date: 2017-01-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/cost-cutting-corporation-tax/
title: The cost of cutting corporation tax - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Further measures that cut UK corporation tax to 12.5%, matching Ireland, would cost the UK government £120 billion over the next five years.

textual_rating:
Labour has offered us estimates which suggest the direct effect would be about half that. These estimates aren’t complete as they don’t account for how companies will react to the change.


claimant: Kate Hoey
claim_date: 2019-08-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/jean-monnet-quote/
title: MP tweets inaccurate quote from quotes website - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Jean Monnet said a European superstate should be created without the understanding of European people.

textual_rating:
This quote doesn’t seem to come from Monnet, but originated in a 1997 book when the author summarised what he thought Monnet’s intentions were in developing the precursor to the EU.


text: An 8-year-old girl was kidnapped from Porthmadog, Wales.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-06-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Porthmadog-missing-child-hoax/
title: Fake post about a missing child is spreading on Facebook - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is a hoax linking to a potentially unsafe website. The post shows an image of a girl who went missing in the USA in 2019.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/macron-sacrifice-vaccine-speech/
review_date: 2021-07-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
French president Emmanuel Macron gave a speech saying he will no longer sacrifice “my life, my time, my freedom and the adolescence of my daughters” for people who refuse the Covid-19 vaccine.

title:
Macron didn’t say he would no longer sacrifice his life for people who refuse Covid-19 vaccines - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Mr Macron did not say this. These comments were made by Italian journalist Selvaggia Lucarelli on social media, and have been wrongly attributed to Mr Macron.


claimant: poster
claim_date: 2022-11-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/drink-spiking-signs/
title: Can you tell a drink has been spiked by its appearance? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Signs a drink has been spiked include change in colour, sinking ice, excessive bubbles, and a foggy appearance.

textual_rating:
While these may be ways that indicate a drink has been spiked, it’s not always possible to tell whether a drink has been spiked by appearance, so a lack of these signs doesn’t rule out drink spiking.


claimant: Chris Philp
claim_date: 2023-07-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/chris-philp-age-assessment/
review_date: 2023-08-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK is the only European country at the moment that does not use scientific age assessment methods to determine if asylum seekers are under or over 18.

title:
Minister wrong to claim UK is only European country not using scientific age assessments for asylum seekers - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is incorrect. The UK is not the only country in Europe that doesn’t use scientific age assessment methods. At least two other European countries, Ireland and Serbia, don’t use these methods.


text: The first asylum seeker flight from the UK to Rwanda was stopped by an EU court.
claimant: GB News
claim_date: 2022-06-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/european-court-human-rights-rwanda-eu/
title: Decision to stop Rwanda flight nothing to do with EU - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. A European Court of Human Rights ruling stopped the flight. It is a totally separate institution from the EU.


claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/amendments-pip-legislation/
title: Amendments to PIP legislation - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
No-one is going to see a reduction in their benefits because of the recent amendment to PIP legislation.

textual_rating:
No-one who was assessed before the two recent tribunal decisions will see a cut in their payments. If the legislation hadn’t been amended then some of them might have seen their payments increase on reassessment. People who were assessed after 28 November may see their payments drop as a consequence of the amendment, as and when they are reassessed.


text: The number of children in poverty has risen since 2010, and now stands at 4 million.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
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:
Broadly correct, if you look at the number of children living in relative poverty and don’t include housing costs. This hasn’t been a statistically significant rise, and there’s more than one measure of poverty.


text: Fluoride calcifies the pineal gland.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fluoride-claims/
title: Not all these claims about fluoride are accurate - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The pineal gland can take on calcium deposits over time and fluoride can attach to calcium.  Studies on the effects of fluoride on the pineal gland have proved inconclusive.


text: NASA has faked images of Mars by taking pictures of locations on earth and tinting them red.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-07-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mars-nasa-fake-rover-ireland/
title: NASA has not faked images of the surface of Mars - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. The images in the post have never been released by NASA. They depict a location in Ireland that featured in a satirical video on how to fake photographs.


text: Less than 29,000 homes for social rent were built under Labour in Scotland.
claimant: Scottish National Party
claim_date: 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/social-renting-scotland/
title: The state of social renting in Scotland - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Around that many homes for social rent (and funded by the government) were built between 2000/01 to 2006/07. But the data doesn’t include those homes for social rent that didn’t receive any government funding.


claimant: ITV News
claim_date: 2022-05-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/passport-delays/
review_date: 2022-05-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Holidaymakers have a 50% chance of getting their passports back in a “successful and timely” manner.

title:
No hard evidence behind claim holidaymakers have 50% chance of ‘timely’ passport renewal - Full Fact

textual_rating:
There’s no hard evidence behind this figure—it’s an estimate from an economic consultancy which doesn’t appear to be based on statistical data. There are anecdotal reports of delayed renewals causing holidays to be cancelled though, amid a “surge” in demand.


text: Golf can reduce the risk of early death.
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2020-02-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/golf-heart-attacks/
title: Research suggesting health benefits of golf could also suggest benefits of being rich - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Golfers identified in a study had a lower death rate than other over 65s but the research didn’t say golf was the reason why.


text: A post suggests that all Nando’s chicken in the UK is now halal.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/not-every-nandos-uk-restaurant-halal/
title: Not every Nando’s UK restaurant is halal - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Not quite. Nando’s serves only halal chicken in 76 of its 434 UK branches. The ad shared in the post was from Nando’s in Singapore.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-01-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/samuel-l-jackson-martin-luther-king-photo/
title: Samuel L. Jackson is not in photo of Martin Luther King playing pool - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Samuel L. Jackson, a student at Morehouse College, can be seen in the background of a photo of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. playing pool in 1966.

textual_rating:
Although Mr Jackson was a student at Morehouse College, he confirmed on Twitter he wasn’t in the photo. The picture was not taken at the College.


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
text:
NHS Test and Trace changed its packaging between December 2020 and February 2021 to hide the presence of ethylene oxide.

url:
https://fullfact.org/health/chemical-used-to-sterilise-covid-19-tests-wont-turn-into-deadly-antifreeze/

textual_rating:
While the packaging did change this was done to clarify that only testing swabs were sterilised with ethylene oxide. This is still clearly stated on other packaging included with the tests.


text: Being vegan for a year saves 3,320kg of CO2.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2019-06-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vegan-food-facts/
title: It’s unclear where these facts about veganism are from - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
An academic study, which is cited as the evidence for this figure, shows the number is actually closer to half of this.


text: Community diagnostic centres are cutting waiting lists.
claimant: Will Quince
claim_date: 2023-06-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/will-quince-cdc-waiting-lists/
title: Are community diagnostic centres ‘cutting’ NHS waiting lists? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is potentially misleading, because “cutting waiting lists” could be understood in different ways. The main NHS diagnostic and treatment waiting lists have grown since community diagnostic centres were introduced, although CDCs may have prevented them from growing more, and other specific lists have fallen.


text: Police Scotland has renamed paedophiles as ‘minor attracted people’.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-01-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/police-scotland-not-renamed/
title: Police Scotland says it hasn’t renamed paedophiles as ‘minor attracted people’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Despite using the phrase in a report, Police Scotland says it does not use the term to describe this type of offender and that when the phrase was used in a report the force was quoting from documents to establish a consortium on combatting child sexual abuse.


text: Mass immigration has depressed wages, especially on the low skill level.
claimant: Lionel Shriver
claim_date: 2018-05-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/immigration-wages/
title: What does immigration do to wages? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Studies find that immigration affects low-waged workers the most negatively. They disagree on whether it has been good or bad for wages overall but tend to show that the effect is small and also short-term.


text: Junior doctors earn £14 an hour.
claimant: Nadia Whittome
claim_date: 2023-07-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nadia-whittome-good-morning-britain-junior-doctors-14-pounds/
title: Most junior doctors’ basic pay was higher than £14 per hour in 2022/23 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Junior doctors in England in their first year earned £14.09/hour in basic pay in 2022/23, but most junior doctors earned more, and many also earn additional pay. All junior doctors in England will soon earn more than £14.09/hour in basic pay, because of an uplift announced earlier this month which will be backdated to 1 April.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-08-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/europe-travel-rules/
title: Why the government recommends having 6 months left on passports to visit Europe - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Most countries in the EU require that your passport is valid for six months on the date of return from your holiday.

textual_rating:
The EU says that your passport must be valid for three months the day after you return from your holiday.


text: There's no evidence of a big drop-off rate of apprenticeships.
claimant: Sajid Javid, Business Secretary
claim_date: 2015-10-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/how-many-apprenticeships-are-successfully-completed/
title: How many apprenticeships are successfully completed? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-11-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
While the number of apprenticeships achieved each year has remained consistent, looking at achievements as a proportion of those finishing or due to finish shows,  just under a third were unsuccessful - a proportion which has been increasing.


claimant: The Expose
claim_date: 2022-07-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/94-per-cent-vaccinated-deaths-covid/
title: Vaccinated people are not more likely to die of Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Data from the Office for National Statistics shows the vaccinated population were suffering immense immune system damage in April and May 2022.

textual_rating:
No it doesn’t. It shows that vaccinated people are less likely to die with Covid than unvaccinated people.


text: The oil and gas industry supports more than 400,000 jobs.
claimant: Lord Grantchester
claim_date: 2015-07-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/how-many-jobs-are-supported-uks-oil-and-gas-industry/
title: How many jobs are supported by the UK's oil and gas industry? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-10-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Over 400,000 was an older estimate. These figures are uncertain, and don't just include people directly employed by the industry.


text: Over 200,000 nurses have quit the NHS since 2010.
claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2019-03-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/have-200000-nurses-quit-nhs/
title: Have 200,000 nurses quit the NHS? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure covers all nurses and health visitors who have left the NHS in England in the last eight years, including those with an unknown reason for leaving as well as those who have retired or died in service. Overall the number of nurses working in the NHS is slightly higher than in 2010.


claimant: Isabel Oakeshott
claim_date: 2023-02-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/100000-ghost-children-isabel-oakeshott/
review_date: 2023-03-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A report by the Centre for Social Justice think tank found 100,000 children left education permanently due to lockdowns during the pandemic.

title:
Think tank figure does not show 100,000 children ‘never went back to school’ due to lockdown - Full Fact

textual_rating:
While attendance has dropped significantly, the figure quoted here does not show 100,000 children never returned to school. The figure actually describes the number of children in England who missed at least half of their sessions in Autumn 2020. Before the pandemic around 60,000 children were missing at least half of their available sessions.


text: This police car’s MOT certificate is overdue.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-02-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/police-cars-dont-need-MOT/
title: Police cars are exempt from having an MOT - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s what the government’s checking service says. It also says that police cars are exempt from the MOT.


claimant: Iain Duncan Smith
claim_date: 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/iain-duncan-smith-school-absence-covid-lockdown/
title: Iain Duncan Smith’s figures on school absence are out of date - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Centre for Social Justice recently produced figures which show that pupil absence grew by 55% during the previous lockdown, with more than 90,000 pupils now absent from school.

textual_rating:
These are not recent figures. The CSJ published them in June 2021, and they describe pupil attendance more than a year ago. Therefore, they do not accurately tell us anything about the current picture of persistent pupil absence.


text: The government’s pledge to halve the disability employment gap won’t be met for 50 years.
claimant: Dr Lisa Cameron
claim_date: 2017-01-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/disability-employment-gap/
title: The disability employment gap - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The gap isn’t currently falling fast enough to meet the government’s pledge, but the idea it’s 50 years away is more rhetorical than factual.


claimant: Owen Smith
claim_date: 2016-03-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/spending-disability-benefits-going-or-down/
title: Is spending on disability benefits going up or down? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
People with disabilities are set to see a real-terms cut of £1.2 billion a year across this parliament.

textual_rating:
Spending on all disability, incapacity, industrial injuries and carer’s benefits, including related housing benefit, is expected to fall by £1.2 billion by the end of this parliament. Spending won’t fall by this amount every year—it will fall by £295 million each year on average.


claimant: David Davis
claim_date: 2021-02-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/vitamin-d-covid-evidence/
title: The link between vitamin D and Covid-19 is complex - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A study on vitamin D and Covid-19 shows an 80% reduction in need for ICU and a 60% reduction in deaths. The study demonstrates that the clear relationship between vitamin D and Covid mortality is causal.

textual_rating:
This was a pre print of a study, which has now been removed from the Lancet website, and is being investigated.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-boy-facebook-hoax-philippines/
title: Hoax missing boy post uses picture of animal rescue volunteer in Philippines - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A five-year-old boy named Josh has gone missing after leaving home on his bike. A silver alert has been issued following his disappearance.

textual_rating:
This is not a genuine appeal. The picture appears to have been taken from 2014 news coverage of a child from the Philippines who set up an animal shelter. A silver alert is a system used for alerting the public about missing elderly people in the US, and is not used in the UK.


text: Ukrainian pointing a gun at people in City center in Wrocław.
claimant: A_Harasimowicz
claim_date: 2023-11-26T00:00:00Z
title: The Ukrainian man in a trending video did not point his gun at passers-by in Poland
review_date: 2023-12-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/the-ukrainian-man-in-a-trending-video-did-not-point-his-gun-at-passers-by-in-poland/


claimant: Various
claim_date: 2023-09-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fakenews.pl/en/health/pfizer-informed-about-the-risk-of-myocarditis-already-in-2021/
title: Pfizer informed about the risk of myocarditis already in 2021
review_date: 2023-11-07T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Manipulation
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
text:
Pfizer has finally admitted that their COVID-19 vaccines increase the risk of myocarditis and pericarditis.


claimant: Różne wpisy w mediach społecznościowych
claim_date: 2023-07-01T00:00:00Z
title: Appeals to Zelenskyy from American celebrities are Russian manipulation
review_date: 2023-11-07T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
text:
American celebrities made numerous appeals to President Zelenskyy to go to rehab and end his drug addiction.

url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/appeals-to-zelenskyy-from-american-celebrities-are-russian-manipulation/


claimant: Various
claim_date: 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z
title: Rainforest Alliance, atrazine, and Bill Gates. We verify the narratives around the green frog logo
review_date: 2023-10-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
text:
Products bearing the Rainforest Alliance green frog logo are sprayed with atrazine, contains GMO and COVID-19 vaccines. Bill Gates is a member of the Rainforest Alliance.

url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/environment/rainforest-alliance-atrazine-and-bill-gates-we-verify-the-narratives-around-the-green-frog-logo/


claimant: Gina Shirah
claim_date: 2023-10-04T00:00:00Z
title: The tests of alarm systems on 4 October in the U.S. will not serve the purpose of depopulation
review_date: 2023-10-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
text:
Testing the alerts sent by the U.S. government on 4th and 11th October will be harmful to society. They can use the 5G network to activate the Marburg virus in the bodies of vaccinated people. The goal is to depopulate humanity.

url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/the-tests-of-alarm-systems-on-4-october-in-the-u-s-will-not-serve-the-purpose-of-depopulation/


text: Ukraine is ruled by drug addicts, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a cocaine addict.
claimant: Citizen Journalists
claim_date: 2023-10-03T00:00:00Z
title: Zelenskyy and cocaine – false Kremlin narratives about drug addicts ruling Ukraine
review_date: 2023-10-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/zelenskyy-and-cocaine-false-kremlin-narratives-about-drug-addicts-ruling-ukraine/


claimant: Various
claim_date: 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fakenews.pl/en/general/the-alleged-german-video-about-ukrainian-refugees-is-a-manipulation/
title: The alleged German video about Ukrainian refugees is a manipulation
review_date: 2023-09-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Manipulation
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
text:
Refugees from Ukraine are to blame for the economic crisis in Germany and are responsible for the deterioration of the quality of life in this country.


text: The girl held by Bolesław Bierut in the photo is young Agnieszka Holland.
claimant: Various
claim_date: 2023-09-08T00:00:00Z
title: There is no evidence that the girl held by Bolesław Bierut in the photo is Agnieszka Holland
review_date: 2023-09-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Lack of evidence
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/politics/there-is-no-evidence-that-the-girl-held-by-boleslaw-bierut-in-the-photo-is-agnieszka-holland/


claimant: Various
claim_date: 2022-08-17T00:00:00Z
title: No, there is no leaflet in United Kingdom encouraging children not to be afraid of paedophiles
review_date: 2022-09-02T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
text:
In the United Kingdom, a brochure was issued that encouraged children not to be afraid of paedophiles

url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/no-there-is-no-leaflet-in-united-kingdom-encouraging-children-not-to-be-afraid-of-paedophiles/


text: The Head of Amnesty International calls on Ukraine not to shoot at newly mobilized Russian troops.
claimant: Sputnik Not
claim_date: 2022-09-28T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-10-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Satyra
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/politics/the-head-of-amnesty-international-does-not-call-on-ukraine-not-to-shoot-at-newly-mobilized-russian-troops-this-is-a-joke/

title:
The Head of Amnesty International does not call on Ukraine not to shoot at newly mobilized Russian troops. This is a joke


text: Newlyweds from Ukraine perform the Nazi salute.
claimant: WarKamikaze
claim_date: 2023-04-26T00:00:00Z
title: The photo of the newlyweds performing Nazi salute was taken in Russia, not in Ukraine
review_date: 2023-08-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/the-photo-of-the-newlyweds-performing-nazi-salute-was-taken-in-russia-not-in-ukraine/


text: Ukrainian supporters were arrested in Qatar for using Nazi symbols.
claimant: Władimir Sołowiew
claim_date: 2022-11-22T00:00:00Z
title: Ukrainian football supporters were not arrested in Qatar for using Nazi symbols
review_date: 2022-11-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/ukrainian-football-supporters-were-not-arrested-in-qatar-for-using-nazi-symbols/


text: In a morgue in the Russian town of Tver / in Ukraine, a dead man came back to life.
claimant: Various
claim_date: 2022-01-24T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-10-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/zombie-apocalypse-in-china-dead-man-came-back-to-life-no-its-a-still-frame-from-a-russian-tv-series/

title:
Zombie apocalypse in China? Dead man came back to life? No, it's a still frame from a Russian TV series


claimant: Olej w głowie
claim_date: 2022-07-28T00:00:00Z
title: Ukrainian prisoners of war "marked" with paint by the Warsaw Insurgents were not shot
review_date: 2022-08-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
text:
The photo shows the "marking" Ukrainian prisoners of war with paint by the Warsaw Insurgents just before their execution

url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/ukrainian-prisoners-of-war-marked-with-paint-by-the-warsaw-insurgents-were-not-shot/


claimant: Anti White Watch
claim_date: 2023-08-13T00:00:00Z
title: Assault in England: the stabber was the victim’s husband, not an immigrant
review_date: 2023-08-29T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
text:
Horrific video shows an african migrant stabbing an Indigenous British woman in broad daylight in the street as she screams for help.

url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/assault-in-england-the-stabber-was-the-victims-husband-not-an-immigrant/


claimant: Siergiej Kurpijanow
claim_date: 2022-10-12T00:00:00Z
title: No, SeaFox was not used by NATO in an attempt to destroy the Nord Stream gas pipeline in 2015
review_date: 2022-10-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
text:
NATO tried to destroy Nord Stream already in 2015 using the SeaFox naval vehicle. The situation also indicates that the West is responsible for blowing up the pipelines in 2022.

url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/politics/no-seafox-was-not-used-by-nato-in-an-attempt-to-destroy-the-nord-stream-gas-pipeline-in-2015/


text: Ukrainian nationalists are responsible for the gruesome crime presented in the photo.
claimant: Various
claim_date: 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z
title: The brutal murder of children was committed by Marianna Dolińska, not UPA
review_date: 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/the-brutal-murder-of-children-was-committed-by-marianna-dolinska-not-upa/


claimant: Rafał Piech
claim_date: 2022-08-30T00:00:00Z
title: UK Government continues to recommend vaccination of pregnant and breastfeeding women
review_date: 2022-09-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
text:
UK government withdraws recommendation for COVID-19 vaccination of pregnant and breastfeeding women.

url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/health/uk-government-continues-to-recommend-vaccination-of-pregnant-and-breastfeeding-women/


text: Zelenskyy gave Pelosi and Harris a flag with SS symbols
claimant: Lega Artis
claim_date: 2022-12-25T00:00:00Z
title: The flag given by Zelenskyy to the U.S. Congress does not contain SS symbolism
review_date: 2022-12-29T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/the-flag-given-by-zelenskyy-to-the-u-s-congress-does-not-contain-ss-symbolism/


text: George Soros zmarł 22 lub 23 listopada 2022 roku.
claimant: Various
claim_date: 2022-12-22T00:00:00Z
title: George Soros is still alive. He also never collaborated with the Nazis.
review_date: 2022-12-03T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/george-soros-is-still-alive-he-also-never-collaborated-with-the-nazis/


claimant: Various
claim_date: 2023-05-13T00:00:00Z
title: Explosion in Khmelnytskyi. There is no evidence of depleted uranium munitions
review_date: 2023-05-23T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Lack of evidence
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
text:
There was an explosion of depleted uranium munitions in Khmelnytskyi as a result of a Russian airstrike.

url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/explosion-in-khmelnytskyi-there-is-no-evidence-of-depleted-uranium-munitions/


text: Israeli TV channel INN created a cartoon about Ukraine depicting it in a bad light.
claimant: Igor Lopatonok
claim_date: 2022-10-17T00:00:00Z
title: Israeli INN TV is not the author of the propaganda animation. It was created by a Russian
review_date: 2022-10-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/politics/israeli-inn-tv-is-not-the-author-of-the-propaganda-animation-it-was-created-by-a-russian/


claimant: Leading Reports
claim_date: 2023-06-07T00:00:00Z
title: Mel Gibson is not making a documentary on child sex trafficking in Ukraine
review_date: 2023-06-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
text:
Mel Gibson is making a 4-part documentary on child sex trafficking and a paedophile network operating in Ukraine and other countries.

url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/mel-gibson-is-not-making-a-documentary-on-child-sex-trafficking-in-ukraine/


claimant: Joseph Ladapo
claim_date: 2022-10-08T00:00:00Z
title: Joseph Ladapo, Surgeon General of Florida, cites an unreliable analysis of the mRNA vaccine
review_date: 2022-10-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
text:
COVID-19 mRNA vaccines cause 84% increase in risk of cardiac-related deaths among males 18-39 years old within 28 days following mRNA vaccination.

url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/health/joseph-ladapo-surgeon-general-of-florida-cites-an-unreliable-analysis-of-the-mrna-vaccine/


claimant: Старая площадь
claim_date: 2022-09-10T00:00:00Z
title: Swiss poster “Snitch on your neighbour, earn 200 francs” is a photo manipulation
review_date: 2022-09-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
text:
In Switzerland, they pay for anonymous reports of a neighbour heating a house above 19 degrees Celsius.

url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/swiss-poster-snitch-on-your-neighbour-earn-200-francs-is-a-photo-manipulation/


text: Demolition of an apartment in Kliny estate in Kraków was a protest against evictions
claimant: Elżbieta Sidor
claim_date: 2022-09-21T00:00:00Z
title: Demolition of an apartment in Kliny estate in Kraków was not a protest against evictions
review_date: 2022-09-29T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/demolition-of-an-apartment-in-kliny-estate-in-krakow-was-not-a-protest-against-evictions/


text: Jeremy Bowen, a BBC reporter, pretended to be under fire during a report from Ukraine.
claimant: Various
claim_date: 2022-10-04T00:00:00Z
title: Jeremy Bowen, a BBC reporter, was actually under Russian fire during his report
review_date: 2022-10-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Manipulation
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/jeremy-bowen-a-bbc-reporter-was-actually-under-russian-fire-during-his-report/


text: Mykhailo Duda, alias "Hromenko", is a relative of President Andrzej Duda.
claimant: Włodzimierz Kuliński
claim_date: 2015-02-02T00:00:00Z
title: No, Mykhailo Duda, commander of the UPA, is not a relative of President Andrzej Duda
review_date: 2022-07-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/no-mykhailo-duda-commander-of-the-upa-is-not-a-relative-of-president-andrzej-duda/


claimant: Johnson
claim_date: 2023-01-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fakenews.pl/en/general/dostoevskys-quote-about-tolerance-is-fake/
title: Dostoevsky's quote about tolerance is fake
review_date: 2023-01-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
text:
Fyodor Dostoevsky said: „Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.”


text: On a popular video, a man caught his wife with another man and shot him.
claimant: BrutalCams
claim_date: 2023-07-29T00:00:00Z
title: The recent shooting in Poznań did not involve a cheating wife, her husband and her lover
review_date: 2023-08-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/the-recent-shooting-in-poznan-did-not-involve-a-cheating-wife-her-husband-and-her-lover/


text: Ukrainian authorities record propaganda, staged videos showing non-existent war events.
claimant: yarikfors
claim_date: 2022-08-12T00:00:00Z
title: Russian propaganda uses footage from a film set to spread disinformation
review_date: 2022-10-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/russian-propaganda-uses-footage-from-a-film-set-to-spread-disinformation/


text: In an interview in 2015, Buzz Aldrin said that humans had never landed on the Moon.
claimant: Various
claim_date: 2022-10-26T00:00:00Z
title: Buzz Aldrin never stated that humans did not land on the Moon. This is a manipulation
review_date: 2022-11-09T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Manipulation
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/buzz-aldrin-never-stated-that-humans-did-not-land-on-the-moon-this-is-a-manipulation/


claimant: Piotr Panasiuk
claim_date: 2022-03-26T00:00:00Z
title: Polsat News did not inform about war crimes committed by the Azov Regiment in Mariupol
review_date: 2022-08-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Manipulation
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
text:
Polsat News reported on war crimes committed in March 2022 by the Azov Regiment in Mariupol, besieged by the Russians.

url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/politics/polsat-news-did-not-inform-about-war-crimes-committed-by-the-azov-regiment-in-mariupol/


claimant: Various
claim_date: 2022-01-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fakenews.pl/en/health/covid-19-vaccination-does-not-result-in-a-positive-hiv-test/
title: COVID-19 vaccination does not result in a positive HIV test
review_date: 2022-11-23T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
text:
Luc Montagnier is the author of the words: “For those of you who have taken the third dose, go and take a test for AIDS. The result may surprise you. Then sue your government.”


text: Poland prepares a referendum on annexing the Lviv Oblast
claimant: Postovo
claim_date: 2022-09-27T00:00:00Z
title: The referendum to annex the Lviv Oblast to Poland is Russian disinformation
review_date: 2022-10-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/politics/the-referendum-to-annex-the-lviv-oblast-to-poland-is-a-russian-disinformation/


text: Ukrainians staged a mass beating of Poles in Warsaw for refusing to shout "Glory to Ukraine"
claimant: Sprinter
claim_date: 2023-08-26T00:00:00Z
title: No Ukrainians were involved in the beating of young Poles on the Vistulan Boulevards
review_date: 2023-08-29T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/no-ukrainians-were-involved-in-the-beating-of-young-poles-on-the-vistulan-boulevards/


text: The Ukrainian army uses Romani people as human shields.
claimant: Various
claim_date: 2022-03-21T00:00:00Z
title: Ukrainians use Romani people as human shields? No, this is Russian propaganda
review_date: 2022-10-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Fałśz
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/ukrainians-use-romani-people-as-human-shields-no-this-is-russian-propaganda/


claimant: Raheem Kassam
claim_date: 2022-10-09T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-10-10T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
text:
Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, wears a bracelet with a swastika

url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/no-valerii-zaluzhnyi-commander-in-chief-of-the-armed-forces-of-ukraine-does-not-wear-a-bracelet-with-a-swastika/

title:
No, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, does not wear a bracelet with a swastika


text: Soldiers of the "Azov" regiment crucified a separatist from the Donetsk region.
claimant: Various
claim_date: 2015-04-24T00:00:00Z
title: The video shows the crucifixion of a separatist by soldiers of the “Azov” Regiment?
review_date: 2022-08-23T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Lack of evidence
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/the-video-shows-the-crucifixion-of-a-separatist-by-soldiers-of-the-azov-regiment/


claimant: Russian Embassy
claim_date: 2022-09-17T00:00:00Z
title: White crosses on Ukrainian military vehicles and Nazi symbolism
review_date: 2022-10-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Lack of evidence
language_code: en
publisher_name: Fakenews.pl
publisher_site: fakenews.pl
text:
White crosses on Ukrainian military vehicles are a reference to Nazi markings used on German equipment during World War II

url:
https://fakenews.pl/en/politics/there-is-no-evidence-that-white-crosses-on-ukrainian-military-vehicles-are-associated-with-nazi-symbolism/


