# claims

text: 86% of Ghana’s population had access to electricity in 2016
claimant: John Dramani Mahama
claim_date: 2022-05-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://ghanafact.com/2022/05/4252/
review_date: 2022-05-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Ghana Fact
publisher_site: ghanafact.com
title:
FACT-CHECK: Former Prez Mahama wrongly claims 86% of Ghana’s population had access to electricity in 2016


text: Nigerian students refuse COVID-19 vaccination by jumping off a two-storey school building
claimant: Viral WhatsApp video and audio
claim_date: 2021-02-09T00:00:00Z
title: FALSE: Nigerian students refuse COVID-19 vaccine by jumping off a two-storey school building
review_date: 2021-02-10T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Ghana Fact
publisher_site: ghanafact.com
url:
https://ghanafact.com/2021/02/false-nigerian-students-refuse-covid-19-vaccine-by-jumping-off-a-two-storey-school-building/


text: President Paul Kagame accuses Ghana's government of corruption
claimant: WhatsApp Forward
claim_date: 2021-06-11T00:00:00Z
title: FAKE: President Kagame has NOT accused Ghana gov’t of corruption as captured on viral image
review_date: 2021-06-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Fake
language_code: en
publisher_name: Ghana Fact
publisher_site: ghanafact.com
url:
https://ghanafact.com/2021/06/fake-president-kagame-has-not-accused-ghana-govt-of-corruption-as-captured-on-viral-image/


text: WASSCE candidates increased more under the NDC administration than the current NPP government
claimant: Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa
claim_date: 2020-07-22T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2020-07-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Ghana Fact
publisher_site: ghanafact.com
url:
https://ghanafact.com/2020/07/fact-check-ndc-mp-okudzeto-ablakwa-falsely-claims-wassce-candidates-increased-more-under-the-ndc-administration-than-the-current-npp-government/

title:
FACT-CHECK: NDC MP, Okudzeto Ablakwa falsely claims WASSCE candidates increased more under the NDC administration than the current NPP government


text: 78,450 men in Ghana contracted HIV in 2021 from other men
claimant: The Ghanaian Times
claim_date: 2022-10-24T00:00:00Z
title: Fact-Check: Claim that more 78,000 men in Ghana contracted HIV in 2021 from other men is false
review_date: 2022-10-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Ghana Fact
publisher_site: ghanafact.com
url:
https://ghanafact.com/2022/10/fact-check-claim-that-more-78000-men-in-ghana-contracted-hiv-in-2021-from-other-men-is-false/


text: 2019 marks the 400th anniversary of the start of the transatlantic slave trade
claimant: President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
claim_date: 2019-06-14T00:00:00Z
title: FACT-CHECK: 2019 marks the 400th anniversary of the transatlantic slave trade?
review_date: 2019-12-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mixture
language_code: en
publisher_name: Ghana Fact
publisher_site: ghanafact.com
url:
https://ghanafact.com/2019/12/fact-check-does-2019-mark-the-400th-anniversary-of-the-start-of-the-trans-atlantic-slave-trade/


text: 2016 GDP growth rate is the lowest in the fourth republic
claimant: Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko
claim_date: 2020-07-22T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2020-07-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Ghana Fact
publisher_site: ghanafact.com
url:
https://ghanafact.com/2020/07/fact-check-gabby-otchere-darko-falsely-claims-2016-growth-rate-is-the-lowest-in-the-fourth-republic/

title:
FACT-CHECK: Gabby Otchere-Darko falsely claims 2016 growth rate is the lowest in the fourth republic


text: Finance Ministry to meet the leadership of aggrieved Menzgold customers
claimant: A Plus
claim_date: 2020-10-13T00:00:00Z
title: FAKE: Viral letter claims Finance Ministry to meet aggrieved Menzgold customers
review_date: 2020-10-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Fake
language_code: en
publisher_name: Ghana Fact
publisher_site: ghanafact.com
url:
https://ghanafact.com/2020/10/fake-viral-letter-claims-finance-ministry-to-meet-aggrieved-menzgold-customers/


text: Ghana ranked last but one in 2019 World Bank’s Human Capital Index 2019
claimant: Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa
claim_date: 2020-08-29T00:00:00Z
title: FACT-CHECK: Okudzeto Ablakwa falsely claims Ghana was ranked last but one in World Bank HCI report
review_date: 2020-09-07T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: false
language_code: en
publisher_name: Ghana Fact
publisher_site: ghanafact.com
url:
https://ghanafact.com/2020/09/fact-check-okudzeto-ablakwa-falsely-claims-ghana-was-ranked-last-but-one-in-world-bank-hci-report/


text: number of 2020 WASSCE candidates has drop if compared to 2019
claimant: Dr Clement Apaak
claim_date: 2020-06-21T00:00:00Z
title: FACT-CHECK: NDC MP, Dr Apaak falsely claims number of 2020 WASSCE candidates has dropped
review_date: 2020-07-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Ghana Fact
publisher_site: ghanafact.com
url:
https://ghanafact.com/2020/07/fact-check-ndc-mp-dr-apaak-falsely-claims-number-of-2020-wassce-candidates-has-dropped/


text: COVID-19 is not a virus but rather a bacterium
claimant: WhatsApp Forward
claim_date: 2021-06-17T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2021-06-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Ghana Fact
publisher_site: ghanafact.com
url:
https://ghanafact.com/2021/06/fact-check-message-falsely-claims-singapore-has-performed-an-autopsy-on-the-corpse-of-a-covid-19-victim/

title:
FACT-CHECK: Message FALSELY claims Singapore has performed an autopsy on the corpse of a COVID-19 victim


text: USA discovers the man who manufactured and sold coronavirus to China
claimant: Unknown
claim_date: 2020-04-06T00:00:00Z
title: Fact-check: US discovers man who manufactured and sold coronavirus to China?
review_date: 2020-04-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Ghana Fact
publisher_site: ghanafact.com
url:
https://ghanafact.com/2020/04/fact-check-us-discovers-man-who-manufactured-and-sold-coronavirus-to-china/


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-12-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/49-pound-energy-voucher/
title: Eligibility criteria for prepayment fuel vouchers vary - Full Fact
review_date: 2024-01-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
People with less than £4 on their prepayment meter can get a £49 fuel voucher that does not have to be repaid, and can apply for this twice a year.

textual_rating:
Fuel vouchers do exist, but they are provided by local authorities, energy companies and charities under a range of different schemes with varying eligibility criteria. We’ve not seen a scheme which operates nationwide in the way the Facebook post describes.


text: A video shows crude oil being discovered in Burkina Faso.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2024-01-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/video-does-not-show-crude-oil-discovery-burkina-faso/
title: Viral clip does not show discovery of crude oil in Burkina Faso - Full Fact
review_date: 2024-01-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t what the footage shows. It’s actually a sewer being repaired in the United States. The black liquid bubbling up is likely to be sewage.


text: A doctor’s starting salary is £28,274.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2024-01-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-become-doctor-graphic/
title: Viral graphic gets details of ‘becoming a doctor’ wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2024-01-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. New doctors in NHS England start with basic pay of £32,397, and earn an average of 29% more in additional pay.


text: A video shows that red potato skins are dyed that colour so they can be sold for more money.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-12-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/potatoes-not-red-because-of-dye/
title: Red potatoes aren’t artificially dyed - Full Fact
review_date: 2024-01-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is untrue, and the video alleging it is a joke. Red potatoes get their colour from naturally occurring pigments called anthocyanins.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-12-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/moon-and-sun-not-the-same-size/
title: The sun and the moon are not the same size - Full Fact
review_date: 2024-01-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The sun and the moon look the same size in the sky because they are of equal size and distance from Earth.

textual_rating:
This is untrue. We know from years of observation that the sun is about 400 times larger in diameter than the moon, and also happens to be about 400 times further away.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-12-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/keir-starmer-fake-article/
title: Fake ‘article’ by Keir Starmer circulating online - Full Fact
review_date: 2024-01-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Keir Starmer wrote an article titled “Eddie Izzard is a true working class woman who represents the real values of the Labour Party”, apparently for the Guardian.

textual_rating:
False. A spokesperson confirmed that the headline or article has not been published by the Guardian, and there are discrepancies between the actual Guardian’s site and the image posted.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2024-01-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-become-doctor-graphic/
title: Viral graphic gets details of ‘becoming a doctor’ wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2024-01-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
To become a doctor you need to get a medical degree (for five years), do foundation training (two years) and then specialist training (for four to 10 years).

textual_rating:
This isn’t quite right. People become doctors when they complete a medical degree, and are registered with a licence to practise while they complete their first year of foundation training.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-01-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/adl-cement-truck-hate-image/
title: Cement truck has not been classed as an antisemitic hate symbol by ADL - Full Fact
review_date: 2024-01-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has classified the image of a cement truck as an antisemitic hate symbol.

textual_rating:
This is not true. Cement trucks do not appear on the ADL’s database for hate symbols. The claim appears to have come from an altered screenshot shared as satire.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2024-01-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/speaker-palestinian-ambassador-meeting/
review_date: 2024-01-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Speaker of the House of Commons announced that the Palestinian flag was to be flown for a visit from the Palestinian ambassador.

title:
Sir Lindsay Hoyle did not announce to the House of Commons that the Palestinian flag was to be flown outside Parliament - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This isn’t what happened. There are no plans for the Speaker to meet the head of the Palestinian mission and he did not announce any such meeting in the House of Commons. This claim is based on an email which the Speaker’s office has confirmed was “sent in error”.


text: 7.71 million people were waiting for treatment in England.
claimant: Laura Kuenssberg
claim_date: 2024-01-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/rishi-sunak-laura-kuenssberg-nhs-strikes/
title: Sunak wrong to claim October’s waiting list improvement followed a pause in strikes - Full Fact
review_date: 2024-01-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not what NHS data shows. 6.44 million people were awaiting treatment at the end of October, for 7.71 million different cases, because some people were waiting for more than one thing.


claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2024-01-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/rishi-sunak-laura-kuenssberg-nhs-strikes/
title: Sunak wrong to claim October’s waiting list improvement followed a pause in strikes - Full Fact
review_date: 2024-01-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Every part of the NHS workforce besides junior doctors has reached a resolution with the government on a reasonable fair pay settlement.

textual_rating:
This is potentially misleading. Senior doctors are currently voting on whether to accept the government’s offer or continue strikes. The Royal College of Nursing didn’t achieve a mandate for more strike action.


claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2024-01-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/national-insurance-contribution-impact/
title: Claims about impact of National Insurance reduction don’t tell the full story - Full Fact
review_date: 2024-01-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Reducing the main rate of National Insurance contributions is a tax cut worth £450 for the average worker.

textual_rating:
This is true, but missing important context. Someone earning roughly the average full-time annual earnings will pay approximately £450 less in National Insurance contributions this year than if the rate had remained the same. But when ongoing personal tax threshold freezes are taken into account the savings for someone on the average salary are substantially smaller, and workers are set to pay more tax in the long term.


text: This year an average working family is going to be paying £1,200 more in tax.
claimant: Rachel Reeves
claim_date: 2024-01-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/national-insurance-contribution-impact/
title: Claims about impact of National Insurance reduction don’t tell the full story - Full Fact
review_date: 2024-01-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t correct. The figure refers to the estimated net increase in personal tax per household by 2028-29, not this year.


claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2024-01-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/rishi-sunak-laura-kuenssberg-nhs-strikes/
title: Sunak wrong to claim October’s waiting list improvement followed a pause in strikes - Full Fact
review_date: 2024-01-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
NHS England waiting lists started to fall in October 2023 when there was a period without industrial action.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. NHS England’s non-emergency waiting list did fall in October, but there were three strike days in October too.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-12-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-post-south-yorkshire-police-arrest-man-insisting-english/
review_date: 2024-01-08T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is not a genuine post by the force and there are no records of any such arrest.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
South Yorkshire Police posted on social media that a man had been arrested for inciting hatred by ‘repeatedly insisting’ he was English in the presence of minority groups.

title:
South Yorkshire Police has not arrested a man for inciting hatred by ‘insisting he was English’ - Full Fact


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2024-01-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/side-hustle-reporting-ebay-vinted-income-not-new-tax/
title: There’s no new tax rule for Vinted, Airbnb and eBay sellers - Full Fact
review_date: 2024-01-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Rules around digital platforms sharing information with HMRC amount to a new tax on side-hustles like selling clothes or other unwanted items online.

textual_rating:
HMRC has not introduced a new tax. People who earn more than £1,000 a year from selling personal items may have to declare this to HMRC and pay tax on the profits, depending on whether they are considered a ‘trader’. What has changed is that digital platforms now have to automatically share some income data with HMRC.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2024-01-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/sun-doesnt-set-at-7pm-february-12/
title: Sun doesn’t set at 7pm by mid-February in the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2024-01-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
On the 4 January, it’s only 39 days until the sun starts setting at 7pm in the UK, so on 12 February.

textual_rating:
This isn’t true. Sunset won’t happen by 7pm until the end of March, or at least 83 days after 4 January.


text: A video shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy belly dancing at an event.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2024-01-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Zelenskyy-dancing-deep-fake-video/
title: Zelenskyy belly dancing video is a deepfake - Full Fact
review_date: 2024-01-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The footage is not genuine. It has been digitally altered, and President Zelenskyy’s face has been imposed onto the dancer’s using deepfake techniques.


text: Junior doctors are currently paid £14 an hour.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2024-01-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/how-much-junior-doctors-earn/
title: How much do junior doctors earn? - Full Fact
review_date: 2024-01-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. Following a pay rise, first-year junior doctors in England receive £15.53 an hour in basic pay only. The average junior doctor, with a few years’ experience, earns much more.


text: An image shows a dog injured in a hit-and-run.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2024-01-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/hoax-hit-and-run-dog/
title: Hoax posts claiming to show dog injured in ‘hit-and-run’ circulate on Facebook - Full Fact
review_date: 2024-01-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These posts are hoaxes. The image is taken from a 2022 news article about a dog attack in Northern Ireland.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-12-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/bulldozer-hospital-Gaza-video-false/
title: Video does not show bulldozer driving over injured at Gaza hospital - Full Fact
review_date: 2024-01-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video shows “Israeli bulldozers” running over civilians outside the Kamal Adwan hospital in north Gaza.

textual_rating:
This footage is unrelated to the Israel-Gaza conflict. It shows the dispersal of protesters by the Egyptian military in Cairo in 2013.


text: The asylum backlog has been cleared.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2024-01-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/asylum-backlog-cleared/
title: Has the asylum backlog been cleared? - Full Fact
review_date: 2024-01-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is misleading. The PM’s claim relates to a subsection of outstanding asylum cases called the “legacy backlog”, rather than the overall backlog of cases which still stands at almost 100,000. Most “legacy backlog” cases have been resolved but around 4,500 are still marked as awaiting an initial decision.


text: The government has now cleared the initial decision asylum legacy backlog.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2024-01-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/asylum-backlog-cleared/
title: Has the asylum backlog been cleared? - Full Fact
review_date: 2024-01-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It depends how you define “cleared”. The government says all legacy backlog cases have been processed, and that this means they have been cleared. But around 4,500 more complex cases are still marked as awaiting an initial decision, and have not been resolved.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-12-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/video-Israel-submarine-capture-actually-us-coast-guard/
title: Video does not show capture of Israeli submarine in Red Sea - Full Fact
review_date: 2024-01-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Footage shows Yemen capturing an Israeli submarine passing through the Red Sea after being warned not to use the trade waterway.

textual_rating:
This is false. The video is from June 2019 and shows the seizure by the US Coast Guard of a self-propelled semi-submersible vessel in the Eastern Pacific Ocean which is suspected of being used to smuggle drugs.


text: Over 112,000 cases are now cleared with a lower grant rate than last year.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2024-01-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/asylum-backlog-cleared/
title: Has the asylum backlog been cleared? - Full Fact
review_date: 2024-01-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct according to new ad-hoc data published by the Home Office, though full 2023 data has yet to be published. Between 1 January and 28 December 2023 a total of 112,138 initial asylum decisions were made. The Home Office says that excluding “non-substantive decisions” there was a 67% grant rate, compared to 76% in 2022.


claimant: Oliver Dowden
claim_date: 2023-12-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/oliver-dowden-waiting-lists-pandemic/
title: NHS waiting list was not falling before the pandemic - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
NHS England elective care waiting list figures were falling, on many measures, before the pandemic hit.

textual_rating:
This is not true, at least in terms of the measure being discussed. In February 2020, the main elective care waiting list for NHS England was at the second-highest level ever recorded.


text: A 74-year-old father with dementia has gone missing after driving off with a dog called Sammie.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-12-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-man-prescot-hoax/
title: Post about missing Prescot man is a hoax - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is false. The man in the picture has a different name and died shortly before the post appeared.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-12-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/chemtrail-badges-pilot/
review_date: 2023-12-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Photos show badges worn by pilots supporting the idea of ‘chemtrails’. The badges suggest barium is sprayed from planes.

title:
Photos show pilots with badges mocking ‘chemtrails’, not supporting the conspiracy theory - Full Fact

textual_rating:
These badges come from a website run by a team of pilots who are mocking the conspiracy theory, and say their aim is “scaring all conspiracy theorists”. There’s no evidence barium is sprayed or released from planes.


text: People who think they are having a heart attack should cough repeatedly and very strongly.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-12-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/cough-heart-attack/
title: Coughing does not protect you during a heart attack - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is incorrect advice. People who think they are having a heart attack should call an ambulance immediately. ‘Cough CPR’ is a longstanding myth that might make someone’s condition worse.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-12-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/putin-schwab-legitimate-military-target-false-peoples-voice/
title: President Putin did not say WEF’s Klaus Schwab is a ‘legitimate military target’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is not true. Transcripts of the speech do not show any mention of Mr Schwab.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
President Putin said WEF president Klaus Schwab is a ‘legitimate military target’ in a speech at an international conference in October.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-12-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Bibby-Stockholm-misidentified-Cameroon-doctor/
title: Asylum seeker who died aboard Bibby Stockholm misidentified as doctor from Cameroon - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is incorrect. The man who died has been named as Leonard Farruku, an Albanian national.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An asylum seeker who died aboard the Bibby Stockholm barge on 12 December was a doctor from Cameroon called Mickael Essouma.


text: There are Muslim-only no-go areas in the UK.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-12-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/muslims-in-uk-facebook-list/
title: List of claims about Muslims in Britain reappears on social media - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There are no areas in the UK that are not covered by UK law, or can’t be policed by UK police forces.


text: There are over 130 Sharia courts and over 50 Sharia councils in the UK.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-12-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/muslims-in-uk-facebook-list/
title: List of claims about Muslims in Britain reappears on social media - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Sharia councils and courts are the same thing. There’s no official count of the number of Sharia councils, but estimates suggest there are fewer than the post claims.


claimant: faceb
claim_date: 2023-12-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/muslims-in-uk-facebook-list/
title: List of claims about Muslims in Britain reappears on social media - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: While these places do all appear to have had Muslim mayors in the past, only some do currently.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
London, Birmingham, Leeds, Blackburn, Sheffield, Oxford, Luton, Oldham and Rochdale all have Muslim mayors.


text: The Court of Appeal made it clear the government’s Rwanda scheme only has room for 100 people.
claimant: Keir Starmer
claim_date: 2023-12-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/keir-starmer-rwanda-capacity/
title: How many asylum seekers can the government’s Rwanda scheme take? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure appears to be out of date, and refer to the scheme’s initial capacity rather than the total number it may take. Exact  capacity figures remain unclear, however. The court did say there was evidence  Rwanda had capacity to house only 100 asylum seekers, but the government says this has since increased. It also says the scheme’s eventual capacity is uncapped.


text: 78% of Muslim women and 63% of Muslim men don’t work and receive free benefits or housing.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-12-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/muslims-in-uk-facebook-list/
title: List of claims about Muslims in Britain reappears on social media - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
2021 Census data found that 37% of Muslim women aged 16 and over were in employment, and 60% of Muslim men—meaning these figures are incorrect.


text: 78% of Muslim women and 63% of Muslim men don’t work and receive free benefits or housing.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-12-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/muslims-in-the-uk/
title: ‘Facts’ in a graphic about UK Muslims are mostly wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These numbers are exaggerated. In 2021/22, an estimated 44% of Muslims were either unemployed or economically inactive in Great Britain. We don’t know how many receive benefits. Old census data from 2011 shows 27% of Muslim households in England and Wales lived in social housing.


text: All schools in the UK only serve halal meat.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-12-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/muslims-in-uk-facebook-list/
title: List of claims about Muslims in Britain reappears on social media - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Schools in the UK have no obligation to only serve halal food, although it’s possible some schools and local authorities may choose to do so.


text: Liz Truss has decided to take her £125,000 a year pension for ex-prime ministers for life.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-12-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/liz-truss-annual-allowance/
title: Liz Truss does not get a special ex-PM pension of £125,000 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Former prime ministers do not receive their own special pensions, but are part of the ministerial scheme that provides a pension on retirement. They are entitled to claim up to £115,000 a year when they leave office, but this is for expenses associated with continuing public duties.


text: There are over 3,000 mosques in the UK.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-12-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/muslims-in-uk-facebook-list/
title: List of claims about Muslims in Britain reappears on social media - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There’s no official tally of the number of mosques in the UK. Unofficial figures suggest there are fewer than 3,000.


text: Images show a close-up of an aeroplane involved in geoengineering.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-12-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/contrails-not-chemtrails-geoengineering/
title: Images show contrails, not “chemtrails” from geoengineering - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These images do not show “geoengineering” in action. They show contrails—white lines of water vapour that sometimes form behind planes.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-12-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/video-IDF-Hamas-tunnels-fake/
title: Video does not show IDF destroying Hamas tunnels - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video shows the Israel Defense Forces using a mechanical tool to “bury terrorists in their tunnels”.

textual_rating:
The clip likely shows a tile lining of a chimney being removed, and pre-dates the current Israel-Gaza conflict.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-09-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/longer-aircraft-trails-not-chemtrails/
title: Long trails in the sky left by planes aren’t ‘chemtrails’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A “chemtrail” can be identified by the length of the white line left behind an aircraft, and how long it remains in the sky.

textual_rating:
This is untrue. The size and duration of contrails—the white lines often seen trailing behind aircraft—differs depending on atmospheric factors, such as humidity.


claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-12-16T00:00:00Z
title: University of Edinburgh has not issued a ‘public apology’ to the Palestinian people - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A letter shows a “public apology” from the University of Edinburgh to the Palestinian people for the 1917 Balfour Declaration.

url:
https://fullfact.org/online/university-of-edinburgh-public-apology-palestinan-people-fictional-performance/

textual_rating:
This is not true. The letter comes from a fictional performance piece set in 2043. The University of Edinburgh has issued no such letter.


text: The BBC has removed Jeremy Bowen from Gaza due to complaints he was “pro-Hamas”.
claimant: instagram user
claim_date: 2023-12-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/jeremy-bowen-removed-gaza/
title: BBC reporter Jeremy Bowen has not been removed from Gaza - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is incorrect and a resurgence of a false claim that first surfaced in 2014. Mr Bowen continues to report from the Middle East.


text: Immigrants in Britain get more money than pensioners to live on.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2019-11-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/immigrants-pensioners-money-to-live-on/
review_date: 2023-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Being an immigrant doesn’t entitle you to get more money from the state than a pensioner - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is missing context. Some migrants may be paid benefits on the same basis as UK nationals and get more than the state pension, but not because of their immigration status. Many can’t claim benefits at all. Cash support given to asylum seekers is much less than the state pension, though they may also be given temporary accommodation.


text: A photo shows a road sign in Yorkshire which has an Arabic translation beneath the English words.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-12-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/image-yorkshire-road-sign-translations-arabic-altered/
title: Road sign in Yorkshire does not have Arabic translations - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This image has been digitally altered to feature the Arabic text and has been circulating online since at least 2016.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-11-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/iphone-namedrop-false-claims-automatically-transfers-information/
title: iPhone ‘NameDrop’ feature doesn’t share contact details without owner’s consent - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The NameDrop feature automatically installed with iPhone iOS 17.1 enables personal information to transfer from one phone to another just by bringing them close together.

textual_rating:
This is not true. While the feature is turned on with the software update, it does not mean contact details will be transferred automatically to other nearby phones. There are several stages that require consent from the user to send or receive information.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-12-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Car-driving-through-Palestinian-protest-false-video/
review_date: 2023-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video shows a car driving through a crowd of pro-Palestinian protesters “blocking the freeway” in Los Angeles.

title:
Video of vehicle driving ‘through crowd of Palestine protesters’ actually from 2020 Black Lives Matter march - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is false. The footage is from an incident at a Black Lives Matter protest which took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 2020.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-11-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/dinghy-migrants-benefits/
title: People who cross the Channel do not automatically get a range of benefits - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Those who arrive in the UK after crossing the Channel in dinghies receive free council houses, weekly benefits, a cash lump sum and free British passports for themselves and family members such as cousins.

textual_rating:
Some of these claims are missing context and others are incorrect. While basic support such as a weekly allowance or hotel accommodation is provided to some asylum seekers, only those who have been given refugee status by the government are able to access council housing or benefits like Universal Credit. Refugees have to wait a number of years before they are able to apply for British citizenship, but if this is granted they will still have to pay for their passport.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-12-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/army-navy-football-biden-chant-altered/
title: Video of crowds at military football game chanting anti-Biden slogan has altered audio - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The entire stadium watching an annual football game between US Army and Navy military colleges chanted the slogan “F*** Joe Biden”.

textual_rating:
This is false. Audio in the footage has been altered. The original video shows the crowd singing along to electronic dance music track ‘Tsunami’.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-12-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-headline-Israeli-shares/
title: Headline about Israelis selling shares ahead of 7 October attack is fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is false. The wording of the headline has been digitally altered and the screenshot is fake.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A headline in the newspaper Haaretz stated that Israelis “made millions” by betting against Israeli shares ahead of the 7 October attack by Hamas.


text: Five million ULEZ fines have gone unpaid.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-11-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/unpaid-ulez-penalty-charge/
title: Five million ULEZ fines have not gone unpaid - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. This figure appears to be higher than the total number of fines that have been issued since April 2019.


text: The sweetener Acesulfame K contains the carcinogen methylene chloride.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/acesfulfame-k-methylene-chloride/
title: Methylene chloride is not an ingredient in the sweetener Acesulfame K - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Methylene chloride is a potential impurity in Acesulfame K—not an ingredient of it. In tests by the FDA, no methylene chloride was found in samples of Acesulfame K.


claimant: Government of the United Kingdom
claim_date: 2023-12-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/gov-website-mayoral-elections/
title: Government website wrong on how to vote in mayoral elections - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Mayoral elections in England, including the election for Mayor of London, use the ‘Supplementary Vote’ system, where voters may choose a first and second choice candidate.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. Since May 2023 mayoral elections in England have used the ‘First Past the Post’ system, where voters only choose one candidate.


text: An 82-year-old father with dementia has gone missing after driving off with a dog called Cami.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-07-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-man-hoax-appeals/
title: Photo of ‘missing dad with dementia’ is actually US taxi driver who died in 2022 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is false. The man pictured is Vern English, a taxi driver from California who died in 2022 and whose image has been used in hoax posts before.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-12-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/cargo-ship-attack-footage/
title: Images of burning cargo ship from Sri Lanka in 2021 not attack on Israeli boat - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Images and videos show an Israeli cargo ship named Unity Explorer bombed by Yemen which has sunk in the Red Sea with its crew.

textual_rating:
This is false. The footage shows a fire aboard a container ship off the coast of Sri Lanka in 2021. Houthi rebels in Yemen have claimed responsibility for an attack on a commercial shipping vessel called Unity Explorer on 3 December but it is not owned by Israel, did not sink and its crew were unharmed.


text: The video shows an electric bus on fire in London’s clear air zone.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-10-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/bus-fire-Bradford-false-claim-London-clean-air-zone/
title: Video does not show electric bus on fire in London - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. This shows a fire on a bus in Bradford that is believed to have been started deliberately. The bus is not electric.


text: Mary Glindon MP said in Parliament that 30% of North Tynesiders are in fuel poverty.
claimant: Mary Glindon
claim_date: 2023-12-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/hansard-mary-glindon-update/
title: Hansard updates fuel poverty figure in PMQs transcript after Full Fact intervention - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Ms Glindon says this figure was misheard, and Hansard has now been updated. Statistics from the charity National Energy Action actually show that 13% of North Tynesiders are in fuel poverty.


text: This year Britain overtook France to become the 8th largest manufacturing nation.
claimant: Kemi Badenoch
claim_date: 2023-11-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/badenoch-manufacturing-britain-france/
title: Kemi Badenoch’s comments on UK manufacturing success use data from 2021 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The figures, while published in September this year, actually refer to 2021. More recent alternative data suggests that manufacturing in the UK has since fallen to slightly below that of France.


claimant: Hugo Keith
claim_date: 2023-12-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/boris-johnson-covid-inquiry-excess-deaths/
title: Was Boris Johnson right to dispute Covid Inquiry evidence on excess deaths? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Among countries in western Europe, the UK was one of the worst off when it came to excess deaths during the pandemic period.

textual_rating:
True. On measures used by Our World in Data and the Office for National Statistics, most western European countries experienced fewer excess deaths relative to their population than the UK.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-11-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/McDonalds-protest-manure-Palestine/
title: Manure dumped at French McDonald’s protesting meat supply not Israel - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A truckload of manure was dumped outside a McDonald’s restaurant in France in protest against Israel’s actions in Gaza.

textual_rating:
This is false. The footage is from a protest by French farmers outside McDonald’s and Burger King branches over the amount of meat imported from outside France.


claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2023-12-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/boris-johnson-covid-inquiry-excess-deaths/
title: Was Boris Johnson right to dispute Covid Inquiry evidence on excess deaths? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: True.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
ONS data showed the UK about 16th in a list of European countries ranked by excess deaths during the pandemic period.


text: There have been no births in Italy in the past three months.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-10-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/no-babies-born-italy-false-claim/
title: Babies have been born in Italy in the past three months - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. While the number of births in Italy dropped to a historic low in 2022, there has been an average of 32,370 births per month between August 2022 and 2023. Local papers have also reported birth announcements more recently.


text: There have been 1.3 million migrants over a period of two years.
claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2023-12-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/john-hayes-sun-migrant-numbers/
title: How many migrants arrived in the UK in the last two years? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the figure for net migration—the difference between those who immigrated and emigrated—which was 1.3 million in the years ending June 2022 and June 2023. Closer to 2.3 million migrants arrived in the UK over this period.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-11-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/hoax-injured-dog-appeal/
title: Social media appeals to reunite owner with injured dog are likely hoaxes - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A dog has been found on the roadside after being hit by a car. They were taken to a vet but were not microchipped, and their owner is being urgently sought.

textual_rating:
This appeal is unlikely to be genuine. The same image and identical wording has been used for multiple posts claiming the dog was injured in locations across England, Scotland, and the USA, as well as in Canada.


claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-11-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/rishi-sunak-100000-migrants-repeat/
title: PM’s claim about Labour’s migrants plan based on inaccurate Conservative analysis - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-12-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Labour’s plan for immigration is a secret backroom deal with the EU that would see an additional 100,000 migrants arrive in the UK every year.

textual_rating:
The way the Conservatives have calculated this number is incorrect. We don't yet know the details of Labour's future policy, so there is no reliable way of knowing the number of migrants it would involve.


text: Graphene oxide is used in Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-11-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/pfizer-graphene-oxide-mesh/
title: No graphene oxide in Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. Graphene oxide was used as a tool in the lab during the vaccine’s development—not as an ingredient in the vaccine itself.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-11-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-argos-gift-card/
title: £100 Argos gift card offer is not genuine - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. This is not a genuine offer from UK retailer Argos.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
People will receive a £100 gift card and gift bag from UK retailer Argos if they fill in an online form.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-11-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/XLBully-dog-ban-affected-breeds/
title: Will the XL Bully ban affect other dogs too? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Four other dog breeds—the Presa Canario, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Cane Corso and Bullmastiff—fall within the bully type breed that will be “under threat” as part of a ban on XL Bully type dogs.

textual_rating:
This is potentially misleading. The government says only XL Bully dogs are affected by the ban in England and Wales. Dogs which share some XL Bully characteristics but are plainly identifiable as another established breed aren’t affected. However other cross-breed dogs which appear to be XL Bullies may be affected, and assessment will be based on appearance rather than stated breed as sold or DNA results.


text: Turpentine can be swallowed to treat sepsis.
claimant: Dr Andrew Kaufman
claim_date: 2023-11-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/andrew-kaufman-turpentine-sepsis-toxic-poison/
title: Turpentine is not a treatment for sepsis—it is poisonous when swallowed - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not a recognised or evidence-based treatment. Turpentine is regarded as a poison and can be fatal if swallowed even in small doses. Sepsis must be treated urgently in hospital including giving antibiotics. Symptoms merit a 999 call.


text: The best barrier for stopping illegal immigration is to stop all benefits to “illegal immigrants”.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-11-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/illegal-immigrant-benefits-access/
title: ‘Illegal immigrants’ aren’t entitled to benefits in the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
People in the UK without a legal right to be here are not entitled to claim any benefits. Asylum seekers, including those who arrive in the UK on small boats for example, also can’t claim welfare benefits, but do receive some financial support from the government as well as help with housing if they need it.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-11-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/IDF-general-misidentified/
title: No evidence ‘IDF general killed in Hamas conflict’ exists - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
General Irwin Baran, of Israel's Special Operations and incursions Brigade, has been killed in Gaza.

textual_rating:
This is false. The man pictured in the post is a different soldier and there is no evidence a person named Irwin Baran was a general in the Israel Defence Force.


text: A video shared on social media shows Rishi Sunak doesn’t know how to use a hammer.
claimant: social media
claim_date: 2023-11-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/rishi-sunak-hammer-video/
title: Prime Minister told to use side of hammer while on visit - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A longer version of the video shows the Prime Minister was told to use the side of a hammer while on a visit last week.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-10-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/diesel-generators-electric-car-chargers/
title: Diesel generator not powering electric vehicle chargers at Welsh service station - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video shows new electric vehicle chargers with a generator operating nearby which is using diesel to power them.

textual_rating:
This is false. The generator is using hydrotreated vegetable oil and is facilitating the installation work. Once operational the chargers will power electric vehicles using renewable energy.


text: There are 7.8 million people waiting for planned treatment on NHS waiting lists.
claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2023-11-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-pathways-patients-waiting-list-labour/
title: Widespread confusion over number of ‘people’ on NHS waiting lists - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not what NHS data shows. Around 6.5 million people are waiting for 7.8 million courses of treatment in England, according to the latest figures, because some are waiting for more than one thing. We’ve not found NHS data for the total number of people waiting across the whole of the UK.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-11-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/washington-post-fake-weapons-ukraine-hamas/
title: Washington Post did not report that Ukraine supplies weapons to Hamas - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Washington Post reported that weapon supplies from Ukraine to Hamas have tripled over the past month.

textual_rating:
This is not a genuine Washington Post article. There’s no evidence Ukraine supplies weapons to Hamas.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-11-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/dublin-apcs/
title: Images of armoured vehicles in Dublin are not from last week’s disturbance - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Irish army was called in to provide support and armoured vehicles in Dublin following stabbings that occurred on 23 November.

textual_rating:
This is false. The Irish Defence Forces did not deploy in response to the riot that occurred in Dublin on 23 November, and an image of armoured vehicles circulating online is from a previous routine exercise.


text: Starbucks has vowed to hire 10,000 Muslims.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-11-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/starbucks-hire-10000-refugees-not-muslims/
title: Starbucks pledged to hire 10,000 refugees, not specifically Muslims - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is false. In 2017, then-CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz, said that the company would globally hire 10,000 refugees over five years, not specifically Muslims.


text: The singer Adele was holding a Palestinian flag at one of her recent gigs.
claimant: TikTok user
claim_date: 2023-11-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/adele-not-holding-palestinian-flag/
title: Adele filmed holding Mexican flag not Palestinian one - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is false. Other videos show that it was a Mexican flag she was holding, at a performance that predated the most recent Israel-Gaza conflict.


text: The government is delivering on the Prime Minister’s pledge to reduce debt.
claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2023-11-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/national-debt-five-priorities/
title: Debt is only projected to begin falling in the latter half of the decade - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Whether or not this is correct depends on how you interpret the pledge the Prime Minister made this year regarding the national debt. Neither underlying debt nor overall debt has fallen in the past year. However both are forecast to begin falling as a percentage of GDP in the latter half of the decade.


text: A video shows thousands of people at a pro-Palestine march in Warsaw, Poland.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-11-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Warsaw-opposition-rally-not-pro-palestine-march/
title: Video of ‘anti-government’ rally in Warsaw mislabelled as pro-Palestine march - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. The video shows a rally held by opposition parties on 1 October ahead of Poland’s parliamentary election.


text: 200,000 people are employed in Scotland’s North Sea oil and gas industry.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-11-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/sunak-scotland-oil-jobs/
title: Around 93,600 jobs are supported by the oil and gas industry in Scotland - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There are around 93,600 jobs supported by the oil and gas industry in Scotland, according to industry body Offshore Energies UK. Around 220,000 jobs are supported by the sector across the UK as a whole.


text: The government’s plan was to put failed asylum seekers on a plane to Rwanda.
claimant: Sky News
claim_date: 2023-11-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/rwanda-policy-failed-asylum-seekers/
title: Does the government’s Rwanda policy only impact ‘failed asylum seekers’? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This depends on how you interpret the word “failed”. All asylum seekers that would be sent to Rwanda, were the government’s plans to proceed, would be deemed ineligible for asylum in the UK because under new laws their cases wouldn’t be considered at all, not because they had been considered in the UK and rejected.


text: Italy, Germany and Austria are all exploring models similar to the UK’s partnership with Rwanda.
claimant: James Cleverly
claim_date: 2023-11-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/rwanda-policy-failed-asylum-seekers/
title: Does the government’s Rwanda policy only impact ‘failed asylum seekers’? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Of these countries only Italy has announced an agreement to relocate asylum seekers in a different country, and it has significant differences to the UK’s Rwanda policy. Austria and Germany have both said they would explore the possibility of sending asylum seekers to third countries, but neither appears to have agreed any specific proposals.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-11-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/toby-carvery-fake-promotion/
title: Toby Carvery not offering free meal for two in return for Facebook likes - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Toby Carvery is giving away a free meal for two for Facebook, users who like a photo on its page and follow a link will receive a coupon for a carvery meal for two at Toby Carvery restaurants.

textual_rating:
This is not a genuine offer. The Facebook page is unaffiliated with the real Toby Carvery, and Mitchells & Butlers—the company which runs it.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-11-19T00:00:00Z
title: Footage does not show an Israeli police officer strangling a Palestinian child to death - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The footage shows an incident at a train station in Sweden in 2015.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video shows an Israeli police officer strangling a Palestinian child to death outside the US Embassy in Jerusalem.

url:
https://fullfact.org/news/footage-police-officier-strangle-palestinian-child-to-death-false-sweden-2015/


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-11-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/myocarditis-covid-vaccine-death/
title: Myocarditis after Covid vaccines doesn’t kill one in five - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Myocarditis after a Covid-19 vaccine is a permanently damaging condition and 20% of cases lead to death within five years.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence to support these death rates. Most myocarditis cases are temporary and mild and require no treatment.


text: A video shows the Palestinian parliament building in Gaza being blown up.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-11-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/gaza-palestinian-parliament-building-video/
title: Video of building being blown up is not Gaza parliament - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The video does not show the Palestinian Legislative Council building in Gaza, but a different building. That said, the Palestinian Legislative Council building has since been at least partially destroyed according to satellite images.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-11-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-injuries-short-film-gaza-israel-lebanon/
title: Footage of ‘Palestinians faking injuries’ comes from film shoot in Lebanon - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Videos of people putting make-up on and directing a little girl on a gurney are evidence Palestinians are faking injuries.

textual_rating:
This footage comes from Lebanon, not Gaza, and shows behind-the-scenes preparation for a stylised short film.


text: Around half of people who are claiming Universal Credit are in work.
claimant: Rachel Reeves
claim_date: 2023-11-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/universal-credit-employment/
title: 38% of Universal Credit claimants are in work - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is a slight overstatement. As of September 2023 38% of Universal Credit claimants were employed.


text: There are 7.8 million people on hospital waiting lists.
claimant: Rachel Reeves
claim_date: 2023-11-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/rachel-reeves-nhs-waiting-lists/
title: Around 6.5 million patients in England on hospital waiting lists - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s not what NHS England data shows. The latest figures estimate there were 6.5 million unique patients waiting for treatment in September 2023. Around 7.8 million treatment pathways were yet to begin, but some patients are waiting for more than one type of treatment.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-10-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccine-new-zealand-clinic-cluster-30/
title: Covid-19 vaccines did not kill 30 people at one clinic in New Zealand - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In one clinic in one day 30 people were injected with the Covid vaccine and all 30 have died as a result.

textual_rating:
False. There is no evidence behind this claim. Official data in New Zealand shows four confirmed or suspected deaths linked to a Covid vaccine in the whole country.


text: The UK was the first country to send tanks to Kyiv.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-10-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/rishi-sunak-ukraine-tanks/
title: Was the UK the first country to send tanks to Ukraine? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This appears to be incorrect. Neither the government nor the Conservative party have provided evidence to support the claim. Several countries, including the Czech Republic and Poland, reportedly sent tanks to Ukraine before the UK did.


text: The UK was the first country to send Western battle tanks to Kyiv.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-10-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/rishi-sunak-ukraine-tanks/
title: Was the UK the first country to send tanks to Ukraine? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s not clear what this is based on. German-made Leopard 2 tanks from Poland and Norway reportedly arrived in Ukraine before Challenger 2 tanks from the UK. However the UK was arguably the first country to confirm it was sending Western tanks.


claimant: Diane Abbott
claim_date: 2023-11-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/diane-abbott-protester/
title: Photo of man with swastika tattoo is actually from 2016 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photo of a man showing a swastika tattoo on his side comes from protests in London on 11 November 2023.

textual_rating:
This image was actually taken in November 2016, at a protest against the opening of a new mosque in Bolton.


claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-11-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/speed-cameras-72mph-auto-generate-tickets-false/
title: All speed cameras on the M1 and M25 are not about to ‘go live’ enforcing a 72mph limit - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
All cameras on the M1 and M25 will be set at 72mph with an “auto ticket generating system” from “midnight tonight”.

textual_rating:
False. Multiple police forces confirmed there would be no changes to speed enforcement on their sections of these motorways. National Highways confirmed there are no new cameras and all are in operation.


text: The psychiatrist of Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has taken his own life.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-11-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/Netanyahu-psychiatrist-satricial-source/
review_date: 2023-11-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This comes from a satirical blog post in 2010 and there’s no evidence it is true.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Claim Benjamin Netanyahu’s psychiatrist took his own life appears to come from a 2010 satirical blog - Full Fact


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-11-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/israeli-helicopter-shooting-civilians-music-festival/
title: Video does not show Israeli helicopter shooting civilians at Supernova music festival - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Footage shows Israeli helicopters shooting Israeli civilians at the Supernova music festival on 7 October.

textual_rating:
False. The clip was shared by the Israel Defence Forces on 9 October, claiming it shows attacks in Gaza. It has also been geolocated to Gaza. There is extensive evidence Hamas is responsible for the attack at the music festival.


claimant: Tiktok user
claim_date: 2023-11-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/idf-chief-of-staff-not-swastika-tattoo-ukrainian-politician/
title: Man in video with swastika tattoo is not IDF chief of staff - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The man with the swastika tattoo is not Herzi Halevi. There is no evidence he has been captured.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Israel Defence Force’s chief of staff, Herzi Halevi, has been captured and a video shows he has a tattoo of a swastika.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-11-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-Forbes-covers-featuring-Hamas-leaders/
title: Forbes magazine covers showing Hamas leaders are fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is not true. A spokesperson for Forbes has confirmed the covers are not genuine.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Former and current Hamas leaders are being featured on the front covers of Forbes magazine special editions.


claimant: instagram user
claim_date: 2023-11-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/expose-95-covid-deaths-vaccination/
title: Instagram post lacks vital context about Covid deaths among the vaccinated - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The vaccinated population accounted for 95% of Covid-19 deaths in England in the 12 months between 1st June 2022 and 31st May 2023.

textual_rating:
This figure is correct, but it simply reflects the fact that almost all the most vulnerable people have been vaccinated. There is good evidence that the Covid vaccines are highly protective against death from the disease.


text: Israel has changed its barcode numbers from starting with 729 to 871.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2023-11-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/israel-barcode-numbers-729-871/
title: Barcodes don’t tell you where a product was made - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Barcodes that originated in Israel may have numbers beginning 729. This doesn’t mean those products were manufactured there. Not all barcodes for products or companies based in Israel will have this code. The code 871 originated in the Netherlands.


text: London went from 86% white to 36% in ten years.
claimant: Twitter account
claim_date: 2023-11-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/london-white-population/
title: London’s white population did not go from 86% to 36% in ten years - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. Census data shows that in 2021 53.8% of people in London identified as white, compared to 59.8% in 2011.


text: The UK is doubling its aid funding for Palestinian civilians.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-11-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/palestinian-aid-spending/
title: How has UK aid spending for Palestinians changed in recent years? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It is true that recently announced aid for the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs) doubles the total amount in aid commitments for the OPTs this year. However this comes after aid commitments to the OPTs—and in general—have reduced substantially in recent years.


claimant: Danny Kruger
claim_date: 2023-11-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/danny-kruger-protest-poll/
title: A YouGov poll found 41% think London protest rules are ‘too relaxed’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A poll found that by two to one the public think the police are being “too soft” on pro-Palestinian protesters.

textual_rating:
This doesn’t fully explain what a recent YouGov poll found. Some 41% of respondents said the rules on protests and marches in London generally are “too relaxed”, versus 19% who said they are “too strict”. However a further 21% said they feel the balance is “about right”.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-11-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/suella-braverman-expenses-tents/
title: Suella Bravermen did not use parliamentary expenses to pay her parents’ energy bills - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Suella Braverman used £25,000 of expenses to pay her parents' energy bills for five years while staying at their home rent free.

textual_rating:
False. The expenses claimed were in relation to her own homes and are fully allowed within the parliamentary rules.


text: Posting the Lord’s Prayer on Facebook is against the platform’s policies.
claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-10-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/lords-prayer-facebook-against-policies-false/
title: Facebook has not banned the Lord’s Prayer - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. Meta, which owns Facebook, has confirmed users can post the Lord’s Prayer and there is no mention of Christian or other religious content in Facebook’s ‘community standards’ policies.


claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2023-10-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/maternity-cqc-safety-ratings/
title: English maternity services rated worse on safety specifically than overall - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Care Quality Commission found that 65% of maternity services in England are regarded as inadequate or require improvement, up from 54% last year.

textual_rating:
This is only true of maternity safety ratings. Altogether, 49% of maternity services were rated inadequate or required improvement overall.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-11-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/khan-audio-palestinian-remembrance/
review_date: 2023-11-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An audio clip is a recording of London mayor Sadiq Khan saying ‘Remembrance weekend’ events should be postponed in favour of a pro-Palestinian protest.

title:
No evidence clip of Sadiq Khan supposedly calling for ‘Remembrance weekend’ to be postponed is genuine - Full Fact

textual_rating:
There is no evidence this clip is genuine or that Mr Khan said this. His office says the audio is a fake and that police are now investigating.


text: One in four cancers are as a result of smoking.
claimant: Stephen Barclay
claim_date: 2023-11-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/barclay-smoking-cancer-deaths/
title: Smoking causes about one in four deaths from cancer - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not quite right. Around 15% of cancer cases are caused by smoking in the UK. But it does cause roughly one in four cancer deaths.


text: The UK’s national debt is falling.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-11-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/rishi-sunak-debt-falling/
title: Prime Minister wrong to say UK’s debt ‘is falling’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s not correct according to the latest official figures, which show the national debt has increased over the last year. Overall public sector net debt is forecast to fall from next year, but underlying public sector net debt, the measure the government uses in its target, is not forecast to fall for several years.


text: A video shows a Croatian mayor slapping a Hamas supporter who shouts Allahu Akbar at him.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2023-11-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/croatia-zagreb-mayor-slaps-hamas/
title: Video does not show Croatian mayor slapping ‘Hamas supporter’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The ‘Allahu Akbar’ audio has been added to the video later. The original video comes from a 2002 documentary and shows a former boxer in Hamburg hitting someone.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-11-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/aerial-footage-bomb-Sudan-not-Gaza/
title: Aerial footage shows a bombing in Sudan, not Gaza - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-08T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The video shows a bomb being dropped near fuel tanks in Sudan.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Footage shows a targeted attack by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) on Palestinian civilians who were gathered around a water tank.


claimant: Im Tirtzu
claim_date: 2023-10-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/gaza-egypt-bodies-protest/
title: Video does not show Palestinians pretending to be dead - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Palestinians are shown in a video pretending to have died in the recent conflict between Israel and Gaza.

textual_rating:
False. This video shows a student protest in an Egyptian university, and was uploaded to YouTube in 2013.


text: People in Wales are twice as likely to be on a waiting list than those in England.
claimant: Stephen Barclay
claim_date: 2023-10-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/steve-barclay-wales-england-waiting-times/
title: Are patients in Wales twice as likely to be on an NHS waiting list as those in England? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The health secretary has not explained what this is based on. Waiting lists can be compared in different ways, but the best comparable data we can find suggests the number of cases on NHS waiting lists is equivalent to around 14% of the population in England, and 22% in Wales.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-11-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Christmas-postal-scam-warning-recirculating/
title: Old warning about a 2005 Christmas ‘scam’ circulating online again - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-07T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This warning is out-of-date, and the number was shut down in December 2005.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Organisations are warning the public about a Christmas postal ‘scam’ where the public are encouraged to call a premium-rate number costing £315 to retrieve a parcel.


text: Every Downing Street pandemic press conference except one was fronted by a male politician.
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2023-11-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/pandemic-press-conferences/
title: More than one Downing Street pandemic press conference was led by a female politician - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t quite right. While Priti Patel appears to have been the only female politician to lead the press conferences, she did so on at least five occasions.


claimant: Lee Anderson
claim_date: 2023-10-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/lee-anderson-eu-migrants-express/
review_date: 2023-11-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Sir Keir Starmer has “cooked up” a deal with the EU to give “hundreds of thousands” of migrants a “golden ticket” to come to the UK.

title:
Lee Anderson claim about Labour migrants ‘deal’ appears to be based on unreliable Conservative party estimate - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Mr Anderson hasn’t given any evidence to support this claim, but it seems likely to be based on an unreliable Conservative party estimate of how many migrants the UK might have to accept were it to join an EU relocation agreement. Mr Starmer has said he would seek a returns deal with the EU, but Labour has not said how many migrants it would accept, and has denied it would join an EU quota scheme.


text: Combining honey and turmeric, with or without garlic, makes the most powerful antibiotic.
claimant: Kiki's Kitchen
claim_date: 2023-10-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/turmeric-honey-garlic-antibiotic/
title: Turmeric honey isn’t the “most powerful” antibiotic - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Honey has some established antibiotic effects, as does garlic. The evidence on turmeric is less clear. But these products can’t be used like clinical antibiotics to treat serious infections.


text: A video shows an interview with an Israeli woman who escaped from Hamas.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-10-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/false-2017-video-iraqi-mp-islamic-state/
title: Video shows Iraqi MP describing actions of Islamic State, not Hamas - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. The video comes from 2017 and shows the Iraqi MP, Vian Dakhil, describing the experiences of Yazidi women captured by Islamic State.


text: A London Underground driver said “jihad” over the tannoy on Saturday 21 October.
claimant: Matthew Offord
claim_date: 2023-10-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/matthew-offord-underground-tannoy/
title: No evidence London Underground driver said ‘jihad’ over tannoy - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Transport for London says it‘s had no reports of this and we’ve not found any evidence to support the claim. Transport for London says a Tube driver has been suspended after appearing to lead a pro-Palestinian chant on a train.


claimant: Stephen Barclay
claim_date: 2023-10-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/maternity-programme-starters-steve-barclay/
title: Health secretary to correct the record over maternity programme numbers - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There has been a 13% increase in the number of midwifery programme place starters since two years ago.

textual_rating:
This is not quite right. The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan says that a 13% rise in midwifery programme starters is anticipated in 2023/24 in England compared to 2021/22 levels. This suggests that the figure is an expected rather than an actual rise.


claimant: TikTok account
claim_date: 2023-10-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/tiktok-gaza-children-bbc/
review_date: 2023-11-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Half of Gaza’s population are children because most Palestinians “don’t ever make it past the age of 30”.

title:
No evidence for TikTok video’s claims about Palestinians’ life expectancy and BBC coverage - Full Fact

textual_rating:
According to population data the majority of those living in Gaza are under the age of 30, but there’s no evidence to suggest most Palestinians do not live past that age. World Health Organisation data shows the average life expectancy in Gaza in 2022 was over 70 years.


text: The BBC cut off its own journalist for reporting that Israel used chemical weapons.
claimant: TikTok account
claim_date: 2023-10-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/tiktok-gaza-children-bbc/
review_date: 2023-11-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
No evidence for TikTok video’s claims about Palestinians’ life expectancy and BBC coverage - Full Fact

textual_rating:
There’s no evidence that the BBC journalist  was cut off because of the content of his report—the BBC says the video feed cut out due to technical issues which were clear throughout the broadcast. The BBC has covered allegations that white phosphorus has been used in Gaza, which were denied by Israel.


text: The WEF has been granted diplomatic immunity by Switzerland.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-10-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/WEF-diplomatic-immunity/
title: World Economic Forum does not have diplomatic immunity in Switzerland - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. Although Switzerland recognised the WEF in a 2015 agreement about its status, this did not grant it diplomatic immunity.


claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-10-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/boris-johnson-get-covid-live-longer/
title: ‘Get Covid and live longer’? Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp at Covid Inquiry fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The average age of Covid-19 deaths is higher than the average life expectancy, which means that people who get Covid live longer.

textual_rating:
The median age of Covid deaths around the end of 2020 was higher than life expectancy at birth at the time, but many people were also younger than that. Life expectancy also increases with age and people who reach their eighties generally still have years left to live.


text: The Covid-19 vaccines are poisons, which commonly produce serious health problems.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-10-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccines-not-poison/
title: The Covid vaccines are not ‘poison’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The Covid vaccines are beneficial for most people and only rarely have serious side effects.


text: Great Western Railway is offering a gift card with a year’s free travel for £1.69.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-10-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-GWR-offer-free-travel/
review_date: 2023-11-01T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The company has confirmed this is not a genuine offer.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
False claims that Great Western Railway is giving away a year’s free travel for £1.69 spread online again - Full Fact


claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-10-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/upside-down-number-plate-illegal/
title: Driving a vehicle with an upside down registration plate is illegal - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-11-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
It’s not illegal to drive with an upside down registration plate. There’s no law stating the number plate must be recognisable to a camera.

textual_rating:
DVLA confirmed it is illegal under the Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001 to drive a vehicle with registration plates attached in a way that is hard to read.


text: Muslims make up a majority in more than 30 constituencies.
claimant: Channel 4 News
claim_date: 2023-10-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/majority-Muslim-constituencies/
title: Three Parliamentary constituencies have majority Muslim populations, not 30 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t correct. Census data shows people identifying as Muslim are the majority in three Parliamentary constituencies in England and Wales.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-10-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/dumping-Halloween-pumpkins-in-woods-harmful-experts/
title: Experts warn against ‘recycling’ Halloween pumpkins in woodlands - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
People should recycle Halloween pumpkins in woodlands or fields, as they are “safe” for “wildlife to eat”.

textual_rating:
Experts advise against doing this. They warn it can cause wildlife to become unwell and damage ecosystems.


text: The majority of toothpastes contain a toxic chemical, fluoride.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2023-09-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/fluoride-toothpaste-pineal-gland/
title: Fluoride levels in toothpaste aren’t toxic when used as directed - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
While large amounts of the substance may be toxic, the amount of fluoride in toothpaste is safe when used as directed.


text: Having a calcified pineal gland causes Alzheimer’s.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2023-09-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/fluoride-toothpaste-pineal-gland/
title: Fluoride levels in toothpaste aren’t toxic when used as directed - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Pineal gland calcification has been seen in higher amounts in patients with Alzheimer’s disease, but this doesn’t necessarily mean the calcification causes the disease.


text: Fluoride destroys the pineal gland by calcifying it.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2023-09-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/fluoride-toothpaste-pineal-gland/
title: Fluoride levels in toothpaste aren’t toxic when used as directed - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Fluoride has been found in higher amounts in calcified pineal glands, but that doesn’t mean we know that fluoride causes calcification.


text: Onion skin treats prostatitis and UTIs.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-10-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/prostatitis-uti-onion-skins/
title: Onion skins aren’t effective treatments for prostatitis or UTIs - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There’s no evidence to suggest this is true. Prostatitis and UTI can lead to life threatening infections if not treated properly with antibiotics.


claimant: Twitter account
claim_date: 2023-10-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/palestinian-girl-rescue-images/
title: Images of a ‘Palestinian girl’ being rescued were taken in Syria in 2016 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A series of images show the same Palestinian girl being saved by three different rescuers on three different days at three different locations 50 km apart from each other.

textual_rating:
If taken literally, this claim is not true. These pictures were actually taken in Aleppo, Syria, in the aftermath of a bombing that took place on 27 August 2016. We have not seen reports showing the same Palestinian girl being rescued three times.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2023-10-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/gaza-israel-conflict-video-child-father-laughing/
review_date: 2023-10-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The video was filmed in Syria in 2020, and shows a Syrian father and his daughter.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video of a little girl laughing as a bomb explodes in the background as part of a game so she doesn’t get scared was filmed by her Palestinian father.

title:
Video of little girl taught to laugh at explosion sounds was filmed in Syria in 2020 not Gaza this year - Full Fact


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-10-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Argos-giveaway-fake/
title: Hundreds of Facebook users share fake Argos giveaway - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Argos has confirmed this is not a genuine offer.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Argos is offering a free giveaway of smartphones, laptops and other items, which you can order through a link.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-10-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/andrew-bowie-british-facebook/
title: No evidence government minister said Scotland isn’t a country - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Full Fact has found no evidence Mr Bowie said this, and he has denied making these comments.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An image circulating online implies that government minister Andrew Bowie said “Scotland isn’t a country. I am British and nothing but British and every person in Scotland is British, whether they assume they are not. [sic] Scottish isn’t a nationality either”.


text: The backlog in asylum cases is now falling rapidly.
claimant: Robert Jenrick
claim_date: 2023-10-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/asylum-backlog-figures/
title: Is the asylum backlog ‘falling rapidly’? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Mr Jenrick was likely referring to the “legacy backlog”, which has fallen by almost 37,000 since the end of November 2022. The overall number of outstanding asylum cases has increased over the same period, though it has fallen slightly since reaching a near-record high in June.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-10-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-kim-jong-un-north-korea-israel-gaza/
title: Kim Jong Un video doesn’t show him talking about Israel-Gaza conflict - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un saying that under President Biden, conflict erupts yearly, with Israel and Palestine this year and Russia and Ukraine last year.

textual_rating:
Kim Jong Un is not saying this in the video, which was filmed in 2020, before Joe Biden was voted US president, Russia invaded Ukraine and the most recent outbreak of conflict in Israel and Gaza.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-10-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-man-Donald-Williams-hoax-posts/
title: Photo of pensioner used in ‘missing man’ hoax - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is a hoax. The photo does not show a man called Donald Williams.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photo shows a man named Donald Williams who has dementia and has gone missing with his dog. His relatives need help finding him.


text: A road sign mentioning zones is evidence we are being prepped for 15 minute cities.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-10-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/15-minute-cities-road-sign-zone/
title: Road sign mentioning zones pre-dates 15 minute cities concept - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The road sign in question has mentioned zones since at least 2009. The local county council says it refers to delivery zones. The local district council says there are no plans for a 15 minute city in Kidderminster, where the sign is located.


text: Age UK said that lockdown caused a rise in suicides among elderly people.
claimant: The Daily Telegraph
claim_date: 2023-10-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/telegraph-age-uk-covid-inquiry/
title: Age UK did not say that elderly suicides rose during lockdown - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Age UK did not say this. A counsel to the Covid Inquiry inaccurately described the charity’s evidence on this point. We can find no evidence of a rise in elderly suicides during the pandemic.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-10-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/Bahrain-Israeli-Embassy-attack-2012-video/
title: Footage does not show an attack on Israeli Embassy in Bahrain - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video shows a recent attack on the Israeli Embassy in Bahrain following events in Israel and Gaza.

textual_rating:
False. The video was posted online in 2012 and shows a police station in Bahrain, not the Israeli Embassy.


text: The UK is returning thousands more people this year than we have in the past.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-10-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/migrant-returns-pmqs/
title: How does the number of migrant returns compare to the past? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The number of people returned from the UK has been increasing since 2020, but remains lower compared to longer-term figures.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-10-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/special-desk-Salzburg-Airport-Australia-Austria/
review_date: 2023-10-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The photo shows a billboard advertising a communications company. No such help desk exists.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photo shows a help desk in Salzburg Airport for passengers who accidentally fly to Austria, rather than Australia.

title:
Salzburg Airport does not have a help desk for passengers who mistakenly fly to Austria instead of Australia - Full Fact


text: The number one cause of hospital admissions among children is tooth decay.
claimant: Wes Streeting
claim_date: 2023-10-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/labour-wes-streeting-tooth-decay-children/
title: Is tooth decay the number one reason children are admitted to hospital? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct for children aged five and over. For children aged one to 17 the top two causes of hospital admission in 2022/23 were viral infection and acute tonsillitis, then tooth decay.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-10-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/screenshot-Arabic-IDF-Facebook-post-not-genuine/
title: Fake IDF Facebook post claims Israel is responsible for Gaza hospital bombing - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) admitted on its Facebook account that it “decided to bomb” a hospital in Gaza.

textual_rating:
This is not a genuine IDF account and it has since been removed from Facebook. Israel denies responsibility for the hospital bombing.


text: A photo shows a Palestinian child with facial injuries sustained in the Israel-Gaza conflict.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-05-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/baby-face-gaza-israel-palestinian/
title: Photo shows US girl with birthmark, not injured Palestinian baby - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The image is of a little girl in the US with a rare condition that can cause port wine stain birthmarks.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-10-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/turkey-palestine-demonstration/
title: Video of ‘pro-Palestine’ demonstration in Turkey is actually from 2021 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-23T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This video was taken during demonstrations in May 2021, not October 2023.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Multiple social media posts imply that a video which shows a ‘pro-Palestine’ demonstration in Turkey occurred following the recent conflict in Israel and Gaza.


text: Forty percent of 10- to 11-year-olds are obese.
claimant: Suzanne Webb
claim_date: 2023-10-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/children-obesity-overweight-suzanne-webb/
title: Around a quarter of 10- to 11-year-olds are obese - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not correct. NHS England data shows around 23% of 10- to 11-year-old children are obese, and a further 14%  overweight. Ms Webb’s office has acknowledged the error, and Hansard has been updated.


claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-10-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/altered-audio-CNN-border-footage-staged-false/
title: Fake audio falsely suggests CNN staged Israel-Gaza border footage - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video featuring audio of someone off-screen apparently feeding directions to reporters suggests CNN staged footage of its correspondent and her team scrambling for cover on the Israel-Gaza border.

textual_rating:
The footage has been altered to add fake audio. There’s no evidence the original footage was staged.


text: One in three female surgeons have been assaulted by a colleague in the past five years.
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2023-09-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/survey-sexual-assault-surgery/
title: Survey on sexual assault in surgery may not be representative - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This comes from a survey of surgical workers (not just surgeons) that may not be representative, because the responses came from those who chose to participate.


text: Labour delivered the highest patient satisfaction in history during its last period in government.
claimant: Wes Streeting
claim_date: 2023-10-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/starmer-conference-waiting-lists-times/
title: Waiting lists can’t be compared through the whole history of the NHS - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We’ve not found a consistent measure of patient satisfaction to check this against. Peak public satisfaction with the NHS was recorded in 2010, just after Labour left power. However, it is unlikely that the new Conservative-led government had significantly influenced the NHS by then.


text: Labour delivered the shortest waiting times in history during its last period in government.
claimant: Keir Starmer
claim_date: 2023-10-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/starmer-conference-waiting-lists-times/
title: Waiting lists can’t be compared through the whole history of the NHS - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s not clear what this is based on. Waiting times don’t appear to have been recorded nationally until 1987, and have been measured in different ways since.


text: Business and commuter traffic on the trains is down by 50% since the pandemic.
claimant: Mark Harper
claim_date: 2023-10-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/train-passenger-numbers/
title: How have rail passenger numbers changed since the pandemic? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure is based on the National Travel Survey 2022, which found that the average number of trips per person taken by surface rail for business was 48% lower last year compared to in 2019, and for commuting 42% lower.


text: Labour delivered the shortest NHS waiting lists in history during its last period in government.
claimant: Keir Starmer
claim_date: 2023-10-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/starmer-conference-waiting-lists-times/
title: Waiting lists can’t be compared through the whole history of the NHS - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We can’t say for sure whether this is true, because waiting lists have been measured in several different ways since the NHS was founded.


text: Train travel is down 50%.
claimant: GB News
claim_date: 2023-10-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/train-passenger-numbers/
title: How have rail passenger numbers changed since the pandemic? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t correct when looking at train travel overall compared to before the pandemic. Various data sources suggest that train use has recovered to around three-quarters of levels prior to the pandemic.


text: The video shows the Gaza Strip following the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas.
claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-10-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/video-Algiers-football-fans-not-Gaza/
title: Video shows scenes in Algiers, not bombing in Gaza - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The footage has been located to Algiers, Algeria, and was online before 7 October 2023. It’s likely to show football celebrations, which can be seen in many similar videos.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-10-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/tv-licence-prison-time/
title: You can’t go to prison solely for not paying the TV licence - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In the UK you can go to prison for not having a TV licence and then watch television in prison without a TV licence.

textual_rating:
You can’t be sent to prison for failing to pay your TV licence, though if you fail to pay the fine this can ultimately lead to a custodial sentence. TVs in cells or communal areas within prison grounds do not need to be licensed but prisoners usually have to pay to rent in-cell TVs.


text: A video shows white phosphorus bombs being dropped by Israeli forces on the Gaza Strip.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-10-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/video-white-phosphorus-Donbas-not-Gaza/
title: Video shows an attack in Ukraine, not Gaza - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The video was filmed in March 2023 and shows a Russian attack reportedly using incendiary weapons on an eastern town in the Donbas region of Ukraine.


text: 125,000 children are never going to school at all.
claimant: Libby Purves
claim_date: 2023-10-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/125000-ghost-children/
title: Government data doesn’t show 125,000 children ‘never going’ to school - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Approximately 125,000 pupils in England were severely absent in the 2022/23 autumn term, meaning they missed 50% or more of their possible sessions. This does not mean that none of these children are going to school at all.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-10-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/video-children-in-cage-predates-recent-events/
title: Video of children in cages predates Hamas attack on Israel - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Many posts on social media claim a video shows Israeli children held in cages by Hamas. Other posts suggest it is Palestinian children imprisoned by Israeli forces.

textual_rating:
The video predates recent events and there’s no evidence proving the children are either Israeli held by Hamas or Palestinian held by Israeli forces.


text: The car that started the fire in the Luton Airport car park was electric.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/electric-hybrid-did-not-start-luton-airport-car-park-fire/
title: Fire brigade says Luton Airport car park fire started in diesel vehicle - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Bedfordshire Fire & Rescue Service has said that the vehicle initially involved in the fire was diesel, and not a hybrid or electric car.


text: The Conservatives allowed the gender pay gap to rise.
claimant: Anneliese Dodds
claim_date: 2023-10-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/gender-pay-gap-dodds/
title: How has the gender pay gap changed under the Conservatives? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Ms Dodds hasn’t explained what this claim is based on. Office for National Statistics data shows both the overall gender pay gap and gap among full-time workers have fallen since the Conservatives took office in 2010, and also since 2015 and 2019. There has been a rise in the gap among full-time workers since 2020, though there’s some uncertainty over this data due to the pandemic. Other figures show a slight rise in the gap at larger employers since 2017, but this data doesn’t cover smaller employers as the ONS figures do.


text: The UK is the only European country where businesses won’t accept cash.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-09-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/UK-not-only-europe-country-legal-to-refuse-cash/
title: UK not the only country in Europe that allows shops to refuse cash - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands allow retailers to refuse cash. Other countries allow retailers not to accept cash in certain circumstances.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-10-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-subtitles-Putin-Erdogan/
title: Fake subtitles show Putin and Erdogan ‘warning America’ over Israel support - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Videos show President Putin and President Erdogan giving speeches “warning America” over support for Israel.

textual_rating:
The videos use old footage that predates the recent conflict in Israel and the Gaza Strip and shows subtitles that do not match what the politicians actually said.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-09-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/bill-gates-melinda-foundation-india-hpv-vaccine/
title: The Gates Foundation was not kicked out of India over HPV vaccine project - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An HPV vaccine trial by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation left thousands of Indian girls from tribal communities disabled or injured.

textual_rating:
We have found no evidence that thousands of girls were left injured or disabled. While seven girls on the vaccination programme died, a committee set up by the Indian Government found that none of these deaths were likely to have been linked to the vaccine.


text: A memo shows President Joe Biden authorised $8 billion worth of aid for Israel on 7 October.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-10-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/us-government-memo-israel/
title: Fake US government memo authorising $8 billion of aid for Israel circulates on Facebook - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The memo this claim is based on is fake. It appears to be an edited version of one published earlier this year approving $2.5 billion worth of aid for Ukraine.


claimant: Stephen Barclay
claim_date: 2023-10-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/wales-nhs-england-treatment-steve-barclay/
title: Are 40% more Welsh patients ‘escaping’ to England for treatment? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The number of patients in Wales “escaping” to seek treatment in England has increased by 40% in two years.

textual_rating:
This appears to be based on unpublished data, though a similar rise between 2020/21 and 2022/23 has been reported in the media. The number of non-Welsh patients travelling to Wales for treatment also rose by 55% between 2020/21 and 2021/22, while both sets of figures may have been affected by the pandemic.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-10-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/gaza-missile-helicopter-arma3/
title: Video game footage used to falsely claim clip of missile hitting helicopter is in Gaza - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The footage is from a video game, not a real-world incident.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video shows an Israeli helicopter being shot down by a shoulder-launched missile during the recent conflict.


text: Dietary cholesterol does not affect bodily cholesterol.
claimant: Mind over Matter Nutrition & Fitness
claim_date: 2023-09-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/cholesterol-food-fat/
title: Cholesterol in food is linked to cholesterol in the body - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The amount of cholesterol in someone's diet does have some effect on the levels of cholesterol in their blood, and for some people this effect will be very significant.


text: An audio clip of Sir Keir Starmer captures him verbally abusing his staff.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-10-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/keir-starmer-audio-swearing/
title: No evidence that audio clip of Keir Starmer supposedly swearing at his staff is genuine - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence that the clip is genuine. Labour sources and Conservative MPs both say the clip was faked, while the X account which shared it has previously published other unevidenced claims about Mr Starmer. The clip may have been generated by artificial intelligence, but we don’t know that for sure.


text: Crime fell by one third under the last Labour government.
claimant: Keir Starmer
claim_date: 2023-10-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/keir-starmer-conference-speech-2023/
title: Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party conference speech: fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This claim is missing context. While we don’t have comparable data covering different administrations, according to the central crime survey measure, crime levels peaked prior to Labour taking office and have been declining since.


text: Labour is the first political party to reach parity in terms of men and women MPs.
claimant: Anneliese Dodds
claim_date: 2023-10-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/anneliese-dodds-women-mps/
title: Labour and the Lib Dems both returned more women MPs than men in 2019 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Both Labour and the Liberal Democrats returned more women MPs than men for the first time following the 2019 general election, meaning they achieved or exceeded parity at the same time.


text: Harriet Harman MP was the second woman Leader of the Opposition.
claimant: Anneliese Dodds
claim_date: 2023-10-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/anneliese-dodds-women-mps/
title: Labour and the Lib Dems both returned more women MPs than men in 2019 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Ms Harman was the second female Labour MP to serve as Leader of the Opposition, but the third overall.


claimant: Keir Starmer
claim_date: 2023-10-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/keir-starmer-conference-speech-2023/
title: Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party conference speech: fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
After 13 years the Conservative party hasn’t had an achievement like the introduction of the minimum wage.

textual_rating:
While Labour was responsible for the introduction of the National Minimum Wage Act in 1998, the Conservative government did introduce a higher minimum wage rate, called the National Living Wage, in 2016.


text: Fewer homes are being built than at any time since the Second World War.
claimant: Rachel Reeves
claim_date: 2023-10-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/rachel-reeves-housebuilding-war/
title: House building figures not at lowest level since the Second World War - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
House building is not at its lowest level since the war. More homes are being created than a decade ago according to the annual latest data, though one industry projection has suggested house building could hit a post-war low in the next few years.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-10-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/video-pro-Palestine-march-2021/
title: Video of ‘pro-Palestine’ march in Chicago is from 2021 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-10T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The video predates recent events and seems to show a rally that took place in May 2021 in Chicago.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video shows a ‘pro-Palestine’ march in Chicago in response to events in Israel and the Gaza Strip in October 2023.


text: A video shows Hamas launching a rocket attack on Israel.
claimant: social media
claim_date: 2023-10-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/tel-aviv-airport-rockets/
title: Video does not show rocket attack on airport in Israel - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This clip has been online since February 2020, when a Turkish news outlet reported it showed Turkish forces launching a rocket attack in Syria.


claimant: Instagram account
claim_date: 2023-10-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/roberto-de-zerbi-fake-instagram-post/
review_date: 2023-10-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Brighton & Hove Albion football club manager Roberto De Zerbi shared an Instagram story expressing “support for the Palestinian cause”.

title:
Brighton manager Roberto De Zerbi did not share Instagram story expressing ‘support for the Palestinian cause’ - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Brighton & Hove Albion has confirmed that the account which shared the story is not associated with Mr De Zerbi, and the account appears to have since been deleted or removed.


text: MPs have an allowance of £160 a week for groceries.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-09-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mp-food-allowance-jobseekers/
title: MPs do not receive £160 a week grocery allowance - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not correct. MPs do not receive a grocery allowance, though they can claim up to £25 for food when they have to spend a night away from their constituency or London due to their work as an MP.


text: The Welsh government’s new speed limit is not a default 20mph across Wales.
claimant: Keir Starmer
claim_date: 2023-10-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/starmer-wales-default-speed-limit/
title: Is Wales’ new 20mph speed limit a ‘default’ restriction? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Welsh government has said that the new law introduces a default 20mph speed limit on restricted roads across Wales. The limit applies to most restricted roads, but not all, and the speed limit on other roads, like motorways, is not affected.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-10-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/sadiq-khan-flu-jab-fake/
title: Picture does not show Sadiq Khan faked receiving flu jab - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photograph shows that Sadiq Khan faked receiving a flu jab, as the safety cap is still on the needle.

textual_rating:
The image, dating from 2020, was taken prior to the injection being administered which is why the safety cap is still in place.


text: Doctors have been offered an above inflation pay award.
claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2023-10-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/doctors-pay-inflation-bma-jeremy-hunt/
title: Are doctors getting an above-inflation pay rise? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Whether this is correct depends on which doctors are included and which measurement of inflation is used. The pay award for junior doctors of between 8.1% and 10.3% is higher than April‘s CPIH inflation rate of 7.8%. But this is lower than the RPI inflation rate of 11.4% that month. Meanwhile, consultants received a 6% pay rise, which is below both RPI and CPIH.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2023-09-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-flu-tests-not-the-same/
title: Rapid tests for both Covid and flu don’t prove infections are the same thing - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A test labelled “COVID-19/Influenza A&B Antigen Test Kit” is evidence that the Covid-19 was flu all along.

textual_rating:
False. The kit pictured tests for both Covid-19 and two types of flu. The viruses causing these are all different, though some of the symptoms can overlap.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-10-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-USA-Today-video-Ukraine-security-officer-pub-brawl/
title: Fake USA Today video reports supposed New York ‘brawl’ involving Ukrainian delegate - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
USA Today published a video reporting on a “drunken brawl” involving a security officer for President Zelenskyy in a bar in New York.

textual_rating:
This is a fake video. USA Today confirmed it did not create or publish it and there are no records of any such incident taking place.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-10-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/prime-minister-university-of-kentucky-not-photoshop/
review_date: 2023-10-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An image shared by the Prime Minister on X shows him Photoshopped into a picture of University of Kentucky college students.

title:
No, the Prime Minister was not Photoshopped into a picture of University of Kentucky students - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is false. The image is genuine and was taken when the Prime Minister visited a college in Cornwall in February 2023.


claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-10-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/rishi-sunak-conference-speech-2023/
title: Rishi Sunak’s Conservative party conference speech: fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Labour plans to do a deal with the EU that could see the UK accepting around 100,000 of Europe’s asylum seekers.

textual_rating:
This figure is a Conservative party estimate which is not reliable. It makes several assumptions and appears to misinterpret a recent EU agreement on relocating asylum seekers, which Labour has since said it wouldn’t join. We don’t know how many migrants the UK might take under a future returns deal with the EU—Labour has not said what such a deal would involve, or how many migrants it would accept.


text: One in five children have used vapes.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-10-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/rishi-sunak-conference-speech-2023/
title: Rishi Sunak’s Conservative party conference speech: fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct for children over the age of 11, but it includes all children who have ever tried vaping, as well as those who currently use electronic cigarettes. Around 4% of children are regular users who vape more than once a week.


text: Halving inflation will mean a 5p boost to people’s disposable incomes.
claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2023-10-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/inflation-tax-cut-comparison/
title: Will halving inflation mean a ‘5p boost’ to incomes? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is only correct if comparing people’s disposable income to what they would have had had the rate of inflation remained the same. If inflation is halved from 10% to 5%, then people will still spend 5p more for an item that cost £1 last year, not 5p less.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-09-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccine-HIV-fragment-australia-horizon/
title: Covid vaccine project using fragments of HIV was cancelled in 2020 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This vaccine was never rolled out. It did not cause any HIV infections in the trial.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A Covid vaccine was developed that used HIV as part of the delivery platform and may have caused HIV infections.


text: Labour is relaxed about taxing meat.
claimant: Claire Coutinho
claim_date: 2023-10-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/claire-coutinho-labour-meat-tax/
title: No evidence for energy secretary’s claim that Labour is ‘relaxed’ about taxing meat - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We’ve found no evidence to support this claim and Ms Coutinho has not provided any. Taxing meat is not Labour policy and the idea was rejected by a Shadow Cabinet member in 2021.


text: We have record numbers of police officers.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-10-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/rishi-sunak-conference-speech-2023/
title: Rishi Sunak’s Conservative party conference speech: fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Although the number of warranted officers in England and Wales has increased since 2010, the overall number of police, staff and community support officers is lower than the 2010 peak.


text: Inflation is a tax.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-10-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/inflation-tax-cut-comparison/
title: Will halving inflation mean a ‘5p boost’ to incomes? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Inflation is not a form of taxation—it’s a measure of how fast the prices of goods and services are rising or falling. However, inflation and tax can both affect people’s disposable income.


text: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is writing off £14.9 billion of tax money on PPE fraud.
claimant: Twitter username
claim_date: 2023-09-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-ppe-fraud-rishi-sunak/
title: Rishi Sunak has not written off £14.9 billion in PPE fraud - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not correct. Although the true losses to PPE fraud are uncertain, they appear to be much lower. The £14.9 billion figure may relate to the impairment of DHSC stock across 2020/21 and 2021/22.


claimant: Mark Harper
claim_date: 2023-10-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/mark-harper-15-minute-cities/
title: No evidence councils are planning to restrict when residents can go to the shops - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
By implementing 15 minute cities local councils could decide how often you go to the shops and ration who uses the roads and when.

textual_rating:
We’ve seen no evidence that councils implementing the 15 minute cities concept are attempting to place restrictions on how often residents can go to the shops. Some councils are also proposing schemes which would restrict traffic on some roads, which have been the subject of controversy, though these aren’t always necessarily directly linked to the 15 minute cities concept.


text: The home secretary is warning UN asylum rules have created 780 million refugees.
claimant: ITV News
claim_date: 2023-09-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/780-million-refugees/
title: Have UN asylum rules ‘created 780 million refugees’? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is misleading. The home secretary actually quoted a think tank’s broad 2022 estimate for the number of people worldwide who could potentially meet the UN’s definition of a refugee were they to leave their countries, including a much smaller number who are actually refugees. This definition includes, for example, the entire population of Afghanistan bar members of the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and ISIS.


text: Videos show news clips of BBC presenters introducing Elon Musk and his ‘new investment project’.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-09-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/deep-fake-BBC-Elon-Musk-investment-project/
title: Deepfake videos show BBC presenters promoting alleged Elon Musk investment project - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The BBC has confirmed the videos are fake. The original footage has been edited using “voice cloning” and artificial intelligence (AI).


text: MPs’ pay increased by over £2,400 in September and is up 42% since 2010.
claimant: Howard Beckett
claim_date: 2023-09-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mp-42-percent-pay-rise/
title: MPs’ pay has not increased by 42% since 2010 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-10-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The last pay rise MPs received was in April 2023, when their salaries did increase by £2,440. MPs’ salaries have increased by 31.7% since 2010.


text: The Pope and Bill Clinton have called for “urgent depopulation” to save the planet.
claimant: The People's Voice
claim_date: 2023-09-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pope-bill-clinton-depopulation/
title: The Pope and Bill Clinton haven’t called for ‘urgent depopulation’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Pope and Bill Clinton discussed climate change at an event at the Clinton Global Initiative but did not mention depopulation.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-08-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/india-overseas-aid-moon/
title: UK aid didn’t pay for India’s moon mission - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
India receives £2.3 billion in overseas aid from the UK and is using the money to fund its lunar mission.

textual_rating:
False. The UK money paid to India is invested in businesses and other projects of benefit to both countries. None of the money is spent on the space programme.


text: All McDonald’s french fries are made with potatoes that are genetically modified.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-09-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/McDonalds-potato-farm-GM-Bill-Gates/
title: McDonald’s french fries do not all come from Bill Gates and a GM potato farm - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
McDonald’s does not use genetically modified potatoes for its french fries in the UK or USA. None of the potatoes from the farm owned by Bill Gates are GM.


text: The cost of housing illegal migrants in hotels is £5-6 million a day.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-09-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/sunak-8m-asylum-hotels/
title: Housing asylum seekers in hotels costs around £8 million a day - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This appears to be an out-of-date figure. The Home Office says that as of the end of June the cost of hotel accommodation for asylum seekers had risen to £8.3 million a day.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-08-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Tesco-introducing-lockdown-measure-false/
title: Tesco has not reintroduced ‘traffic light’ lockdown measure in its stores - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Tesco has reintroduced a traffic light system that was used during the pandemic to signal when customers could enter stores, with a video showing the system in use at a store in Swindon.

textual_rating:
This is not true. Lights were accidently turned on for a brief period at a Tesco store in Swindon, as can be seen in the video, but Tesco has confirmed it has not reintroduced the system controlling the number of customers who can enter at any of its stores.


text: McDonald’s french fries come exclusively from Bill Gates.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-09-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/McDonalds-potato-farm-GM-Bill-Gates/
title: McDonald’s french fries do not all come from Bill Gates and a GM potato farm - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
McDonald’s potatoes are sourced from farms all over the world. One potato supplier listed on the McDonald’s USA website is owned by Bill Gates’ investment firm, but it’s not true to say all potatoes used by the fast food chain are from Mr Gates.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-09-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/wef-schwab-control-countries/
review_date: 2023-09-29T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. There is no evidence Mr Schwab has said this.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The head of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, has urged world leaders to grant him full governmental control over their nations.

title:
World Economic Forum founder has not urged world leaders to give him control of their countries - Full Fact


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-09-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/staged-argument-flight-attendant-passenger-gender-identity/
title: Video of staged argument about trans plane passenger circulating as if it’s real - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video shows an argument between a flight attendant and a passenger whose gender identity does not match the information for the assigned seat.

textual_rating:
The argument is staged. The original video has disclaimers stating this and was posted by a page that says it makes “conversational topic videos that feel real”.


text: Cayenne pepper will heal an ulcer.
claimant: Barbara O'Neill
claim_date: 2023-09-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/cayenne-pepper-stomach-ulcer-barbara-oneill/
title: No evidence cayenne pepper will heal a stomach ulcer - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence to suggest this is true. Eating spicy foods with an ulcer may make symptoms worse.


text: Eating honey alone can sustain human life.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-08-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/honey-sustain-human-life/
title: People cannot live on honey alone - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Eating only honey would lead to nutritional deficiencies that could eventually be fatal. It does not contain enough protein, fat or micronutrients for human survival.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-09-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-man-hoax-Walter-Peters-Quora-photo/
title: Missing man hoax appeals for ‘Walter Peters’ recirculate with different photo - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The photo shows a missing man called Walter Peters who has dementia and has gone missing with his dog.

textual_rating:
This is a hoax. The photo does not show a man named Walter Peters. The same text has been shared to community groups around the world with some using a photo of a different man.


text: A photo shows a man named Walter Peters who has gone missing with his dog.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-09-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-man-hoax-US-photo-2014/
title: Photo of a man who died in 2014 used in recent hoax appeals for ‘missing’ man - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is false. The photo comes from articles on a local US newsite about a different man who went missing and died in Georgia in 2014.


claimant: Reece Mander
claim_date: 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nutritionist-acid-reflux-gord-yeast/
title: Nutritionist makes errors in listing causes of acid reflux - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The only main causes of acid reflux are H. pylori infection, yeast overgrowth, gallbladder issues and mineral deficiencies.

textual_rating:
The main causes of acid reflux are lifestyle factors like obesity and smoking, as well as pregnancy and hiatus hernia.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2024-09-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/hoax-post-missing-man-Reddit-photo/
title: Search for missing man ‘Frederick Miller’ is a hoax - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The man in the photo, Frederick Miller, has dementia and has gone missing. Help is needed to ‘get him home safely’.

textual_rating:
This is a hoax post. The photo comes from a 2020 Reddit post and the appeal appears in community groups around the world.


text: 50% of child asylum seekers turn out to be adults.
claimant: Richard Tice
claim_date: 2023-09-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/richard-tice-age-disputes/
title: It’s not true that 50% of child asylum seekers turn out to be adults - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Although around 50% of all resolved age dispute cases involve asylum seekers who are ultimately found to be over 18, it’s not correct to say 50% of all children seeking asylum turn out to be adults, as the majority of applicants claiming to be under 18 are not subject to age disputes.


text: Staring at the sun won’t hurt your eyes.
claimant: Jason Itzler
claim_date: 2023-09-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/sun-gazing-jason-itzler-eye-damage/
title: Staring at the sun is bad for your eyes - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Excessive exposure to sunlight can cause serious and irreversible damage including blindness, both from one off exposures and over time. It is not safe to stare at the sun.


text: There’s a proposal to make you change your diet by taxing meat.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-09-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/environment/sunak-environment-proposals/
title: What’s behind the ‘Net Zero proposals’ the Prime Minister has said he’ll scrap? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There’s no evidence the government intended to tax meat in order to reach Net Zero. Recommendations from official bodies such as the Climate Change Committee have not included taxing meat.


text: There’s a proposal to create new taxes to discourage flying or going on holiday.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-09-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/environment/sunak-environment-proposals/
title: What’s behind the ‘Net Zero proposals’ the Prime Minister has said he’ll scrap? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence the government intended such a policy. Earlier this year the government actually reduced air passenger taxes for those flying to domestic or ultra-long haul destinations.


claimant: Twitter username
claim_date: 2023-08-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/private-healthcare-gp-general-practice-nhs-spending/
title: The government does not pay private health companies twice as much as GPs - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The NHS spends £320 per person on “private healthcare providing NHS care”, equating to 90p per person per day.

textual_rating:
These figures are based on the Department of Health and Social Care spend on “non-NHS services” and include care purchased from charities and local authorities, not just independent sector providers. About £192 was spent per person and 53p per person per day on independent sector providers in 2021/22.


text: Labour has pledged to open Britain’s borders to 100,000 more migrants each year.
claimant: Conservative Party
claim_date: 2023-09-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/labour-forced-to-accept-100000-migrants/
review_date: 2023-09-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Conservative estimate that UK would take 100,000 migrants a year under Labour plan is not reliable - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is misleading. The 100,000 figure is a Conservative party estimate which is not reliable, because it makes several assumptions and appears to misinterpret a recent EU agreement on relocating asylum seekers. We don’t know how many migrants the UK might take under a future returns deal with the EU—Labour has not said what such a deal would involve, or how many migrants it would accept.


text: The UK Government is spending twice as much on private health companies as on GPs.
claimant: Twitter username
claim_date: 2023-08-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/private-healthcare-gp-general-practice-nhs-spending/
title: The government does not pay private health companies twice as much as GPs - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t right. NHS England spent £10.9 billion purchasing care from independent sector providers specifically in 2021/22, while payments made to general practice during this financial year totalled £10.1 billion.


text: The government is stopping heavy-handed measures on expensive insulation upgrades.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-09-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/environment/sunak-environment-proposals/
title: What’s behind the ‘Net Zero proposals’ the Prime Minister has said he’ll scrap? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Although proposed changes to Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards, which would mean from 2025 new rental properties would need at least an Energy Performance Certificate rating of C or above, have been mentioned in a government consultation, the government has not brought forward a policy or proposed legislation that would enact this.


text: There have been proposals for a government diktat to sort your rubbish into seven different bins.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-09-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/environment/sunak-environment-proposals/
title: What’s behind the ‘Net Zero proposals’ the Prime Minister has said he’ll scrap? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Environment Act 2021 sets out provisions for six different types of recyclable household waste to be collected separately. But it also includes exceptions to this requirement, and these provisions have not actually been brought into force.


text: There have been proposals for compulsory car sharing if you drive to work.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-09-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/environment/sunak-environment-proposals/
title: What’s behind the ‘Net Zero proposals’ the Prime Minister has said he’ll scrap? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There’s no evidence the government intended to pursue compulsory car sharing. Although local car sharing schemes operate across the UK, they are not compulsory. A handful of commuter roads can only be used by vehicles with a minimum of two occupants during certain times of day, but these have existed since the late ‘90s.


text: Croydon is currently “37% British”, according to the 2021 census.
claimant: Facebook page
claim_date: 2023-09-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/croydon-census-british/
title: More than 37% of Croydon’s population is British - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure seems to refer to the 37.4% of Croydon residents who said their ethnic group was “White British” in the 2021 census. But other ethnic categories also include those who are British. About two thirds of Croydon’s population were born in the UK, and over 80% say they identify as British or with one of the nations of the UK.


claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-09-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/prison-escape-figures/
title: The number of prison escapes has been falling since the 1990s - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Prison escapes under the Labour government were almost ten times higher than under the Conservatives.

textual_rating:
This figure is correct, based on official data for England and Wales, but doesn’t tell the whole story. The number of escapes fell sharply during Labour’s time in office, and was higher still under John Major’s Conservative government. The figure also only includes escapes from prison rather than escapes during transit. When all escapes are taken into account, there were around five times as many under Labour.


text: High ammonia levels in the blood are due to parasitic worm urine.
claimant: Wayne Rowland
claim_date: 2023-07-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/worm-pee-urine-parasites-headaches-bad-breath/
title: Bad breath, headaches and pimples not caused by worm urine - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Raised ammonia levels are most commonly due to liver or kidney disease. Ammonia isn’t recognised as a test for parasite infection. We can’t find any evidence that worm infections cause harmful levels of ammonia.


text: As chancellor, Rishi Sunak cut spending on school rebuilding by almost half.
claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2023-09-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/school-rebuilding-rishi-sunak/
title: What happened to school rebuilding funding when Rishi Sunak was chancellor? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Annual spending on school rebuilding programmes in England fell by 41% between 2019-20 and 2021-22, when Mr Sunak was chancellor. However this may be partly explained by one programme ending and another beginning. The limited information we have also suggests spending on the new scheme may end up being higher.


claimant: Janice Turner
claim_date: 2023-09-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/maternity-nhs-compensation-clinical-negligence/
title: NHS in England not paying out £8 billion a year in maternity negligence compensation - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The NHS in England spends more than double the £3.2 billion maternity and neonatal budget on maternity clinical negligence compensation payments.

textual_rating:
NHS Resolution says that 41% of the £2.6 billion paid out in clinical negligence payments in 2022/23 related to maternity care, equating to around £1.1 billion. This is much lower than the £3 billion a year NHS England says is spent on maternity and neonatal services.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/no-WEF-pets-slaughter-policy-climate/
title: WEF has not advocated the slaughter of millions of pets - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-08T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The organisation has not advocated this.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The WEF is now calling for millions of cats and dogs worldwide to be killed in an attempt to reduce the carbon footprint that they produce as a result of eating meat.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-08-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/zoom-terms-train-ai-audio-facial-recognition/
title: Can Zoom use your meetings to train AI? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Zoom terms of service now require you to allow artificial intelligence to train on all your data—including audio, facial recognition and private conversations—with no opt out.

textual_rating:
This is not what Zoom’s current terms of service say. They now include a line specifically saying it does not use your audio, video or chat to train its own or third-party AI models. Zoom does have some AI features that users can opt in to using.


text: A new programme reveals how engineered “human meat” is being produced and sold in the UK.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-08-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/human-meat-factory-uk/
title: ‘Human meat’ is not being sold in the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The clips shown on social media are from a real satirical documentary designed to highlight the cost of living crisis.


text: A photo showing the Earth is flat has been leaked by SpaceX.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-08-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/photo-SpaceX-flat-Earth/
title: Altered photo showing ‘flat’ Earth has not been leaked by SpaceX - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The photo has been heavily edited and doesn’t prove the Earth is flat. There have not been any reports of a photo leaked from SpaceX by reliable or official sources.


text: Smart meters allow energy suppliers to turn off your supply remotely.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-08-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/smart-meters-remote-cut-off-energy-supply/
title: Do smart meters allow energy companies to cut you off remotely? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
While this is broadly true, they need to have contacted you to discuss options for repaying your debt and have visited your home to assess your personal information. There are also some exceptions to who can be cut off. Your credit smart meter can be changed to a prepayment one remotely although new rules mean that energy suppliers can’t enforce this on certain vulnerable customers and must follow steps before doing this to others.


text: Foreign office mandarin under fire for saying day after referendum: I voted for Brexit.
claimant: The Independent
claim_date: 2023-09-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/independent-simon-mcdonald-brexit/
title: Independent corrects claim former top civil servant ‘voted for Brexit’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This headline is inaccurate and has been corrected. Lord McDonald actually told the BBC that he revealed to colleagues following the EU referendum that he had voted to remain.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/Spanish-minister-private-jet-cycle/
title: Spanish Minister did not travel by private jet to ‘climate conference’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Spain’s minister for ecological transition and demographic challenge, Teresa Ribera, travelled to a climate conference by private jet.

textual_rating:
This is not true. The ministry confirmed she travelled by car, and her delegation travelled by train.


claimant: Twitter account
claim_date: 2023-09-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/energy-bill-new-criminal-offences/
review_date: 2023-09-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Energy Bill means people who don’t comply with energy regulations will be fined up to £15,000 or sent to prison.

title:
The Energy Bill will not make failing to comply with ‘Net Zero targets’ a criminal offence - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This isn’t correct. While, once passed, the Energy Bill would give the government the power to establish such offences and set out fines and prison terms, these would have to be considered separately by Parliament. The bill itself will not create any new criminal offences, and the government has said it has no plans to create any new offences.


claimant: Janice Turner
claim_date: 2023-09-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/maternity-nhs-compensation-clinical-negligence/
title: NHS in England not paying out £8 billion a year in maternity negligence compensation - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The NHS in England now pays £8.2 billion in annual clinical negligence compensation for maternity care.

textual_rating:
This is not true. NHS Resolution’s annual accounts show that a total of £2.6 billion was spent on clinical negligence payments in 2022/23, up from £2.4 billion in 2021/22. The £8.2 billion seems to refer to the “cost of harm” relating to maternity care in 2021/22.


text: Ms Ribera exited a car to cycle a short distance to arrive at the venue by bike.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/Spanish-minister-private-jet-cycle/
title: Spanish Minister did not travel by private jet to ‘climate conference’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There’s no evidence she exited a car to cycle the final distance. She appears to have cycled further than the posts claim.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-09-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/morocco-earthquake-video/
title: Video of building collapse is not from recent Morocco earthquake - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-15T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The video comes from Casablanca in 2020, not after the 2023 Morocco earthquake.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video of a building collapse comes from the aftermath of the Morocco earthquake on 8 September 2023.


claimant: Nitro Luke DX
claim_date: 2023-08-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/tap-water-spring-water-fluoride-heavy-metals/
title: UK tap water among safest in the world - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Tap water is the most underrated cause of disease because it contains chlorine, fluoride, pesticides and heavy metals.

textual_rating:
In the UK, these substances are present in tap water in very small amounts and are strictly regulated to keep the water safe.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-08-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/facebook-fake-house-giveaway/
title: Thousands share fake house giveaway - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Social media users could win one of two free houses that can’t be sold due to minor dents and scratches if they interact with a Facebook post.

textual_rating:
This is not a real offer. The company actually selling the house pictured told us it's not involved in any giveaway.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-08-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/chris-preddie-charles-hoffe-covid-vaccine/
title: Covid-19 vaccine doesn’t raise risk of catching and dying from the disease - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Covid-19 vaccine increases your chance of getting Covid and spreading Covid, and it damages your immune system to such a degree that you have a higher risk of hospitalisation and death.

textual_rating:
This is false. A large body of evidence shows that the Covid-19 vaccines protect to some extent against infection, and substantially against hospitalisation and death.


text: If I drank cordial and then take a test I would test positive because of the drink in my mouth.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-06-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/lateral-flow-tests-cordial/
title: Pouring diluted cordial onto a Covid-19 test won’t give an accurate result - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Government guidance says you should wait 30 minutes after eating or drinking to take a test to reduce the risk of spoiling the test.


text: The Covid-19 vaccine will cause infertility in younger men.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/there-isnt-pork-in-covid-19-vaccines/
title: There isn’t pork in Covid-19 vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no reason to believe this. If anything, vaccination may help protect any effect on fertility caused by the virus itself.


text: The Conservatives are planning to sell off NHS property by implementing the Naylor Review.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/what-is-naylor-review/
title: Naylor Review: will the Conservatives sell NHS property to developers? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-06-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Naylor Review is about how efficiently the NHS uses its land and property. It says some should be sold to fund improvements to the rest. The Conservatives are backing the review's proposals.


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
text:
Coronavirus stays on fabric for 9 hours, so washing clothes or being exposed to the sun for two hours meets the purpose of killing it.

textual_rating:
We don’t know how long the virus can survive on fabric. There isn’t evidence that it can transmit from fabrics to people, though soiled clothing from Covid-19 patients should be washed normally.


text: The NHS Test and Trace app cost £37 billion.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-04-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Covid-NHS-app-test-and-trace/
title: NHS Covid tracing app did not cost £37bn - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The NHS Covid-19 app cost £35 million in the 2020/21 financial year. The £37 billion figure was the budget of the entire Test and Trace programme in its first two years.


text: Period poverty has forced more than a quarter of females to miss work or school.
claimant: ITV News
claim_date: 2019-02-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/period-poverty-how-widespread-it/
title: Period poverty: how widespread is it? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Of those responding to the survey the figure seems to be closer to one in ten, but it’s unclear and we’ve asked for more information. The survey also wasn’t designed to be representative so it can’t tell us about the wider population.


text: Dominic Raab said that Covid-19 tests have a 93% false positive rate.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/dominic-raab-93-percent/
title: Dominic Raab did not say Covid-19 tests have a 93% false positive rate - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Mr Raab appears to have mis-spoken. He was talking about the success rate of detecting Covid-19 when people arrive at airports. Evidence suggests that false positives are rare in the most common Covid-19 tests.


text: A Dyson Supersonic hair dryer is available for just £1.78 in an AO.com clearance sale.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/dyson-ao-clearance-sale/
title: Dyson clearance sale on Facebook has nothing to do with Dyson - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Both AO and Dyson say that this has nothing to do with them. We can find no trace of the company that claims to be behind the offer.


text: 140,000 children went missing from education during the pandemic and have not returned to school.
claimant: Karren Brady
claim_date: 2023-04-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/karren-brady-ghost-children/
review_date: 2023-05-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
School statistics don’t show 140,000 children ‘never came back’ after pandemic disruption - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The 140,000 figure is the number of children in England who missed at least half of their available sessions in the summer term of 2022—not the number who have left school completely. The number of children missing at least half of their sessions has grown significantly since before the pandemic.


claimant: Facebook group
claim_date: 2022-05-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/man-from-parallel-universe/
title: A man who arrived in Japan with a fake passport did not mysteriously vanish - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Experts said a man who vanished after arriving at Tokyo airport with a passport issued by the country of “Taured” was from a parallel universe.

textual_rating:
While it seems there was a real case involving a man who arrived in Japan with a fake passport, he did not vanish, and reports at the time did not say he was from a parallel universe.


text: The average income of a plumber is between £150,000 and £1 million per year.
claimant: influencer
claim_date: 2023-07-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/plumbers-income-uk-average/
title: Average annual income of UK plumbers is not between £150,000 and £1 million - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Available evidence suggests this is not correct. The average income for someone employed in the ‘job group’ that includes plumbers is between £15,000 and £40,000 a year according to government figures.  Self employed plumbers earn on average around £60,000 a year. Some are reported to earn considerably more than this.


claimant: Rebecca Long-Bailey
claim_date: 2017-05-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/are-there-one-million-older-people-unable-look-after-themselves/
title: Are there one million older people unable to look after themselves? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Over one million vulnerable people are unable to look after themselves due to reductions in spending on social care.

textual_rating:
Analysis by Age UK found that there were 1.2 million over 65s who experienced difficulty with basic tasks such as eating and washing.


text: We make one of the biggest contributions to the EU budget.
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:
Correct.  The UK contributes roughly the third largest sum of money into the EU budget behind Germany and France, and a similar amount to Italy.


claimant: Shaun Bailey
claim_date: 2020-07-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/shaun-baileys-comments-on-the-congestion-charge-lack-context/
title: Shaun Bailey’s comments on the congestion charge lack context - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
It was the Mayor’s choice to raise the level of the London congestion charge in response to a bailout package offered by the government.

The government had only asked the Mayor to bring forward proposals to raise the charge as a bailout condition, not to actually raise the charge.

textual_rating:
While this is technically accurate, it is misleading to suggest that the Mayor could have simply brought forward proposals, kept the charge as it is, and still receive the bailout.

The government’s bailout for TfL was conditional on TfL “urgently bring[ing] forward proposals to widen the scope and levels of these charges.”


text: Some recovered Covid-19 patients catch the disease again
claimant: Reuters
claim_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-catch-twice/
title: It's very rare to catch Covid-19 twice - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There may have been some rare cases of reinfection with Covid-19, but most people seem to be immune afterwards, at least in the short term


text: German TV said there were 2.2 million people at the People’s Vote march on Saturday 19 October.
claimant: Mike Butcher
claim_date: 2019-10-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/peoples-vote-two-million-no-evidence/
title: No evidence that People’s Vote march had over two million people - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We’ve seen no evidence any German TV station said this. All the reporting we’ve seen from German TV and other news media outlets put the number in the tens or hundreds of thousands.


text: The Scottish Parliament hasn’t debated education for two years.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-01-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/scotland/johnson-education-claims/
review_date: 2020-02-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: There have been several education debates.
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


claimant: Keir Starmer
claim_date: 2020-04-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-test-targets/
title: Government misses one of its Covid-19 test targets - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-04-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Matt Hancock said there would be 25000 tests a day by mid-April. We’re currently at under 15,000 as of yesterday, so we’re missing that target. He said 100,000 by the end of April.


text: Cases of food poisoning have more than doubled from one million in 2009 to 2.4 million in 2019.
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/takeaways-spread-norovirus/
title: Takeaways and restaurants are responsible for 8% of norovirus cases - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The figures do not indicate an increase but are simply a “better estimation” of the amount of illness caused by food.


claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/what-did-courts-rule-pip/
title: What did the courts rule on PIP? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A court ruled that more people are entitled to the PIP benefit because they were suffering from “overwhelming psychological distress”.

textual_rating:
The Upper Tribunal’s decision was based on the interpretation and application of the language of the complicated PIP regulations, which include the phrase “overwhelming psychological distress”. It decided that - in relation to the case assessed - the individual’s “overwhelming psychological distress” made them satisfy additional parts of the criteria for assessing PIP eligibility.


text: Reports to the Yellow Card scheme suggest that the Covid vaccine from AstraZeneca is not safe.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-02-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/yellow-card-astrazeneca-reactions/
title: There is no evidence that people are dying from the Covid-19 vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The Yellow Card scheme has collected reports of adverse health events following vaccination, but none of the deaths or serious events so far appear to have been caused by it.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-09-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/NHS-actors-recruitment-campaign/
title: Casting call for ‘hospital patients’ was for NHS recruitment advert - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A casting call looking for actors to play “hospital patients” suggests there aren’t enough genuine patients in hospitals.

textual_rating:
The NHS has confirmed that the job advert was for actors to feature in an NHS staff recruitment campaign.


text: Rail unions rejected an 8% pay rise, which is bigger than the pay deal offered to nurses.
claimant: The Daily Telegraph
claim_date: 2022-12-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/rail-workers-nurses-pay-offer-comparison/
title: 8% pay offer for rail workers covers a longer period than the deal offered to nurses - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This pay rise covers a two year period, 4% each year, whereas the pay increase given to nurses covers a 12-month period. A nurse earning the average nurse’s basic pay will receive an increase of approximately 4%.


text: A lot of the vaccine ingredients haven’t been tested for their efficacy.
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:
This is false. Efficacy data has been published for all three Covid-19 vaccines approved for use in the UK.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-01-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-surfaces-packages-china/
title: There’s no evidence that the new coronavirus can survive on packages for 28 days - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Coronaviruses can live on surfaces for up to 28 days, so you should be careful if you receive a package from China.

textual_rating:
There is currently no evidence that this virus can survive on surfaces that long. Most other coronaviruses do not. Current health advice suggests the risk of contracting the virus from a package is very low.


text: For every gram of cocaine consumed, four square kilometres of rainforest are destroyed
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:
Incorrect. This is a typo from a claim made in 2008 which said 4 square metres not kilometres of rainforest are destroyed for every gram of cocaine. This estimate doesn’t appear to be true in 2016.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-10-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/zelenskyy-office/
title: President Zelenskyy’s office was not blown up in recent Kyiv strikes - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video shows President Zelenskyy’s Kyiv office being blown up by Russian forces around 10 October 2022.

textual_rating:
This is false. The video doesn’t show this, and journalists on the ground have confirmed that the office was not hit.


text: Heathrow Airport is used by businessmen and women.
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:
An estimated 24% of flyers from Heathrow are travelling for business, more than most other major airports. Only City airport has a higher proportion of business travellers in London (50%).


text: Suicides have increased during lockdown.
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:
It is too soon to know what impact the pandemic has had on the suicide rate. There is currently no evidence of a dramatic increase.


text: Not a single one of the four nominees to key EU positions was voted on by MEPs.
claimant: Richard Tice
claim_date: 2019-07-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/meps-vote-european-commission-president/
title: Do MEPs get to vote for the new President of the European Commission? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
MEPs don’t nominate any of the four candidates, but two of the roles (President of the European Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs) do still need to be approved by MEPs and they are consulted on a third.


text: Wages are lower today than they were ten years ago.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-04-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/have-wages-fallen-past-ten-years/
title: Have wages fallen in the past ten years? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-04-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Yes, the official headline measure of median weekly wages for full time workers is lower than ten years ago.


claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2021-11-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/sleep-heart-disease/
title: Study linking sleep time and heart disease risk shows correlation not causation - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Going to bed between 10pm and 11pm every night cuts your risk of getting heart disease by up to 25%, according to a new study

textual_rating:
The study did find there was a correlation between going to bed at that time and a lower risk of heart disease. But it didn’t prove that one caused the other, as suggested.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-09-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/global-leaders-not-planning-recession/
title: Queen’s funeral was not cover-up for planning global recession - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Queen’s funeral was a cover-up for world leaders to plan a global recession in order to implement digital IDs and currency.

textual_rating:
While a global economic slowdown is projected over the next year there’s no evidence this has been deliberately co-ordinated by world leaders.


claimant: Conservative party
claim_date: 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/keir-starmer-gmb-facebook/
title: This video has been edited to make Keir Starmer appear confused at the end - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
When asked about getting a good Brexit deal on Good Morning Britain Mr Starmer was unable to answer.

textual_rating:
This is untrue. In the original video, Mr Starmer answers promptly. His reaction in this video has been edited.


claimant: Hugo Talks
claim_date: 2022-01-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/aortic-stenosis/
title: Estimates of heart condition prevalence in the UK isn’t linked to vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Research has found that a massive amount of the population has a deadly heart condition after a year of Covid-19 vaccines.

textual_rating:
We could find no evidence that aortic stenosis has anything to do with Covid-19 vaccines. There’s no evidence the vaccines cause the condition, which is due to a congenital heart defect, or damage to the heart that occurs with age.


text: The asylum initial decision backlog is down by 17,000.
claimant: Suella Braverman
claim_date: 2023-06-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/braverman-asylum-initial-decision-backlog/
title: The total asylum initial decision backlog has increased since December - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not correct in terms of the total number of asylum cases awaiting an initial decision, which has increased since December 2022. However the “legacy backlog”, which the government defines as asylum applications made before 28 June 2022 still awaiting an initial decision, has fallen by almost 18,000 since December.


text: Images show incredibly detailed photographs of the sun.
claimant: Facebook group
claim_date: 2022-05-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/sun-photos/
title: Facebook post does show real images of the sun - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These appear to be real images of the sun taken by an astrophotographer, although they may have been significantly processed with software.


claimant: Liberal Democrats
claim_date: 2022-07-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/ministers-severance-pay/
title: What payouts do ministers receive when they leave office? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Ministerial departures that caused Boris Johnson to announce his resignation will lead to a total bill to the taxpayer of £423,000.

textual_rating:
This figure comes from analysis by the Liberal Democrats, which they have since confirmed was not correct as it included some MPs not entitled to severance payments. The true figure will also be lower if ministers who’ve resigned return to a paid job in government within three weeks, as some have.


claimant: Ian Blackford
claim_date: 2018-07-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/universal-credit-driving-people-food-banks/
title: Is Universal Credit driving people to food banks? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Trussell Trust food bank use has increased by 52% in a year in areas where Universal Credit has been rolled out.

textual_rating:
Correct according to the Trust’s own research. It’s difficult to measure the extent that one is causing the other. There’s wider evidence that people have had problems during the rollout of Universal Credit and that some have been going to food banks as a result.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-06-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/law-sex-offenders-crime-punishment-rape/
title: Rape has not been legalised in the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Rape has been legalised in the UK as offenders can now escape punishment if they apologise to their victims.

textual_rating:
Rape remains illegal. A small proportion of sexual offences, often those committed by children, are dealt with outside the criminal justice system when police say it is not in the public interest to prosecute. But in these cases a criminal offence has still been committed.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-04-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/vitamin-d-rat-poison/
title: Vitamin D supplements aren’t ‘rat poison’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Sources of vitamin D, apart from the sun, are poisonous, because high doses can be used as a rodenticide.

textual_rating:
Vitamin D3 can be used to kill rats, but is safe for people at normal and higher doses and some people need to supplement to maintain good health. It is possible to overdose on the vitamin if very high doses are taken over a long period.


text: Households are £900 worse off due to increased energy bills since 2010.
claimant: Rebecca Long-Bailey
claim_date: 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/energy-bills-under-conservatives/
title: Energy bills under the Conservatives - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-06-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That's adding up the increase in average electricity and gas bills in each of the six years from 2010 to 2016 (adjusting for inflation) if energy use stayed the same over this time. It hasn't. The Committee on Climate Change has said that household bills in 2016 were lower than they were in 2008, due to reductions in energy use.


text: There are over 2,000 more people employed in talking therapies.
claimant: Ralf Little
claim_date: 2017-11-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mental-health-staff-working-talking-therapies/
title: Mental health: staff working in talking therapies - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-12-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
One estimate says at least 2,850 more people worked in IAPT services (a flagship talking therapy programme for those with anxiety and depression) from August 2012 to April 2015. This does not include other NHS talking therapies.


text: The prison population has doubled in 25 years.
claimant: Juliet Lyon
claim_date: 2016-02-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/rising-prison-population-lyon/
title: The rising prison population - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-02-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It almost has, from 45,000 at the start of the 1990s to around 86,000 today in England and Wales. Prisons have been overcrowded almost constantly for the last two decades.


text: Working from home will add more than £2,500 a year to the average household’s energy costs.
claimant: The Daily Telegraph
claim_date: 2022-08-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/telegraph-working-from-home-energy-costs/
title: Telegraph miscalculates the cost of working from home - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure comes from a flawed calculation, which assumes that the cost of energy used each month is as high as it is in January. The Telegraph and other outlets have since published corrections. There are other questions about the underlying figures too, the details of which have not been published in full.


text: The Covid-19 vaccine caused Claire Bridges to lose both her legs.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-01-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/claire-bridges-legs-amputated/
title: Vaccine did not cause young woman to lose both her legs - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. Claire Bridges’ legs had to be amputated because of complications from a Covid-19 infection, combined with her longstanding heart condition. She has confirmed that the vaccine had nothing to do with it.


claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-03-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/are-there-enough-school-places-being-created/
title: Are there enough school places being created? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The majority of free schools have been opened in areas where there is a need for school places and in areas of disadvantage.

textual_rating:
83% of free schools opened since 2013 were in areas where there was a need for places. We’ve asked the Department for Education for more information about the claim that the majority of free schools were opened in areas of disadvantage.


text: The EU parliament elections this year will be proportional.
claimant: Green Party of England and Wales
claim_date: 2019-04-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/what-will-happen-your-vote-upcoming-eu-parliament-elections/
title: What will happen to your vote in the upcoming EU parliament elections? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The system is designed to deliver a broadly proportional result, but in practice the outcome won’t be perfectly proportional.


text: Daily deaths from cancer in England were in 450 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:
This seems to be an average based on 2015-2017 figures. Looking at 2019 figures 378 people died per day on average.


text: A quarter of the energy we use in Britain today comes from wind.
claimant: Owen Smith
claim_date: 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/about-15-uks-electricity-comes-wind/
title: About 15% of the UK’s electricity comes from wind - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-03-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s a snapshot picture when wind is generating an unusually high amount of electricity. Over the course of a year, about 15% of the UK’s electricity comes from wind power.


text: According to the Lisbon Treaty, in 2022, there will be no more monarch.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Lisbon-treaty-short-list/
review_date: 2019-03-29T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is not true. There are no plans for the EU to remove the heads of state of its members.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Most of these claims about the EU aren’t true and have nothing to do with the Lisbon Treaty - Full Fact


text: The Guardian said “Lib Dems winning and on the up after by-election victory” in August 2019.
claimant: Liberal Democrats
claim_date: 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/lib-dem-leaflet-false-quote/
title: Lib Dem leaflet falsely attributes pro-Lib Dem quote to the Guardian - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is misleading. The quote is an edited version of the Guardian headline, which made clear that the words originally came from Jo Swinson, not the Guardian itself.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-04-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-19-vaccines/
title: Results of Covid-19 vaccine trials have been published and peer-reviewed - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Covid-19 vaccine trials have not yet been completed and therefore the results cannot be peer-reviewed.

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.


text: 19 Liberal Democrat MPs refused to support a motion to stop privatisation of the NHS.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/liberal-democrat-nhs-privatisation/
title: It’s misleading to claim the Lib Dems refused to support an end to NHS privatisation - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The motion in question would not have stopped privatisation in the NHS, nor would it have necessarily repealed the Health and Social Care Act.


text: Last year 140,000 children were completely missing from formal schooling.
claimant: Ian Mearns MP
claim_date: 2023-06-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/ian-mearns-pupil-absence/
review_date: 2023-07-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Government figures don’t show 140,000 children were ‘completely missing’ from formal schooling last year - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is not what the published data shows. The 140,000 figure actually refers to the number of children in England who missed at least 50% of their school sessions in the 2021/22 summer term. Recent government data estimates around 95,000 children were not registered at school or otherwise receiving suitable education at some point in 2021/22, while 116,300 were home-schooled.


text: You should stay at home for two weeks after receiving the flu vaccine.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/flu-vaccine/
title: You do not need to stay home for two weeks after getting the flu vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is exaggerated. Only children who have been vaccinated with the flu vaccine nasal spray should avoid close contact with people who have severely weakened immune systems for two weeks.


text: 26% of NHS doctors are foreign-born.
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
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
26% of doctors in England (excluding GPs) were nationalities other than British as of September 2017. The latest figure is 27% (September 2018). We don’t know where they were born as this data isn’t collected.


text: 66 A&E and maternity wards have been closed.
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, as this information isn’t collected nationally. In 2014, there were reportedly plans to close or downgrade 66 in England, but while some have been, others have stayed open.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-03-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/hmrc-tax-fraud-dwp-benefit-fraud/
title: Viral figures on benefit fraud and tax evasion are wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Only 552 people are employed by HMRC to investigate tax evasion, while 4,045 are employed by the DWP to investigate benefit fraud.

textual_rating:
These figures don't appear to be correct. We've not been able to find a precise breakdown of how staff are allocated, but the DWP employs more than 9,000 in its counter-fraud department, while HMRC has around 28,000 staff in its customer compliance department.


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
text:
Mental health is an exemption of Tier 4 and Tier 5 -- you can go out and see a friend, you can leave your house.

textual_rating:
You can leave your house during lockdown for specific reasons, regardless of mental health, for example, to meet one local friend for exercise.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-08-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/nazi-dissolved-parliament/
title: This post oversimplifies and confuses details about Hitler’s rise to power - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
On 30th January 1939 Adolf Hitler asked President von Hindenburg to dissolve parliament to stop politicians bypassing “the will of the people.”

textual_rating:
This incorrectly conflates multiple events in Hitler’s rise. Von Hindenburg dissolved parliament at Hitler’s request in 1933 in order to hold an election. We’ve seen no evidence that Hitler said dissolution was to bypass those trying to stop “the will of the people”.


text: ULEZ must be blocked because there has been no public consultation.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-02-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ulez-public-consultation/
title: Public consultation was held on ULEZ expansion proposals - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A public consultation was held last year on the proposals to expand the ULEZ to cover all of Greater London.


claimant: Fraser Nelson
claim_date: 2015-06-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/how-many-syrian-refugees-are-there-uk/
title: How many Syrian refugees are there in the UK? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-06-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is correct, but not all Syrian refugees arrive in the UK through the scheme.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK has only granted asylum to 187 Syrian refugees through the Vulnerable Person Relocation scheme.


text: £1 billion was given to 13 companies for PPE but no PPE has been supplied.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-13T00:00:00Z
title: Viral Facebook post incorrectly claims that a list of PPE contracts are all unfulfilled - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/health/viral-facebook-post-incorrectly-claims-list-ppe-contracts-are-all-unfulfilled/

textual_rating:
These contracts appear to be real contracts for PPE, but there is no evidence that the contracts were all unfulfilled.


text: The ONS has registered 4,122 deaths in 2020 due to Covid-19.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/ons-2020-covid-first-quarter-deaths/
title: Viral Facebook post is wrong on deaths in first three months of 2020 - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This was broadly correct for the first 14 weeks of the year, including a few days in April and in December 2019.


text: The National Institute of Health added ivermectin to the list of Covid treatments.
claimant: Russell Brand
claim_date: 2022-09-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/russell-brand-ivermectin/
title: Russell Brand admits falsely claiming that ivermectin is a Covid-19 treatment - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. There is an ivermectin section on the NIH website, but it explains that ivermectin cannot and should not be used to treat Covid-19.


text: A study shows that ginger kills 91% of leukaemia cells and shrinks tumours in mice.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-03-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/ginger-kills-cancer-cells/
title: Misleading claims about ginger and cancer - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The study looked at a substance from ginger, not ginger itself. The actual reduction in cancer cells was less than 91% in most of the experiments. Tumours in mice grew less quickly when treated with the substance. They didn’t shrink.


url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-referendum-voting-guide-vote-leave-international-influence/
title: EU Referendum Voting Guide: Vote Leave on international influence - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
We will retake our seats on international bodies. […] We will have more international influence and use it to encourage more friendly international cooperation.

textual_rating:
The UK already sits on many international bodies individually, as do representatives of the EU as a whole.


claimant: Daniel Hannan
claim_date: 2022-06-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/ECHR-immigration-libyan-alcoholic/
title: European Court of Human Rights not involved in 2014 deportation case - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The ECHR overturned the deportation of a Libyan alcoholic with 78 convictions partly on grounds that it was very hard to buy alcohol in Libya.

textual_rating:
The ECHR did not rule on this case. A UK tribunal judge cited the European Convention on Human Rights, and found that he would be likely to drink alcohol in Libya, and risked being subjected to detention and corporal punishment as a result.


text: When the Conservative party came into government it was met with record unemployment.
claimant: Kwasi Kwarteng
claim_date: 2022-10-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/Kwarteng-record-unemployment/
title: Kwasi Kwarteng wrong on ‘record unemployment’ under Labour - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. Unemployment was 7.9% when the Conservatives entered office, four points lower than in 1984, the record high according to comparable data.


claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-04-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/rishi-sunak-maths-unemployment/
title: The numbers behind the PM’s maths claims fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Poor numeracy skills leave people twice as likely to be unemployed as those with competent numeracy.

textual_rating:
This appears to be based on a 2005 study which found that at the age of 30, men and women with poor numeracy were more than twice as likely to be unemployed as those with competent numeracy. The research showed a correlation between poor numeracy and unemployment, but not a causative link.


text: US patent 10130701 is for coronavirus.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/us-patents-on-viruses/
title: Viral image about patents for viruses is misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This number is not a patent for the new Wuhan virus, Covid-19. It’s a patent for a weakened version of a virus in the same family as Covid-19, a family which includes the common cold and SARS.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-girl-ashley-dog-hoax/
title: Hoax post about missing six-year-old girl shared on Facebook - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A six-year old girl named Ashley is missing from her home in Lancashire, and there is an amber alert activated to find her.

textual_rating:
The photo of the girl appears to have been taken from a 2018 article about a missing dog reunited with its family in the US. There is no evidence this is a genuine appeal.


text: The Nazis were socialists.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2019-06-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/nazis-socialists/
title: The Nazis were not socialists - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
While their name did include the word “socialist”, their policies and treatment of left-wing opponents show they were not socialists in any meaningful sense.


text: 260,000 over-75s have refused to pay their licence fee.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-08-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/facebook-post-incorrect-claims-tv-licence-fee-non-payment/
title: Facebook post makes incorrect claims about TV licence fee non-payment - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the number of over-75s who are yet to make payment arrangements for their TV licence after the government ended its subsidy. There is no evidence that all 260,000 are refusing to pay.


text: We are discharging people at a record rate out of hospitals.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Rishi-Sunak-patient-flow-discharge-rates/
title: Government fails to back up PM’s claim that A&E patient flow is 'faster than ever' - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s not clear exactly what this claim relates to. NHS England figures do show more patients have been discharged so far this winter than last, though we haven’t been able to find directly comparable figures beyond that. The proportion of patients declared medically fit who are discharged each day is lower than last winter.


text: The European Commission is setting up an EU army to protect the borders.
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/new-eu-border-agency-or-eu-army/
title: A new EU border agency, or an EU army? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-12-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This refers to Commission proposals for a new border agency with increased powers, including the ability to operate in a country despite its objections. Most, if not all, of its border guards would be provided by member countries. The UK isn't covered by this plan.


text: Conservative councils cost £341 more in council tax on average per household.
claimant: The Labour Party
claim_date: 2018-04-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-conservative-council-tax/
title: Labour and Conservative council tax: who costs you more? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We haven’t been able to replicate this calculation, and in general it’s difficult to attribute the cost of council tax to a single party.


text: Over half of Britons would ignore Christmas Covid rules.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2021-12-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/express-christmas-lockdown-survey/
title: Daily Express is wrong to say most people would ignore a Christmas lockdown - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no good evidence for this. It comes from a poll on the Express website, which does not represent the views of British people as a whole.


url: https://fullfact.org/europe/stronger-facts-leaflet-investment/
title: Stronger In "facts" leaflet: investment - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK gets £66 million of investment every day from EU countries - that’s more than we pay to be a member of the EU.

textual_rating:
£66m a day is the average for the past ten years. Our membership fee was £23m a day in 2015. Investment was £14m a day in 2014.


text: 6 months ago the DWP promised a review of Universal Credit for the terminally ill.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-01-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/universal-credit-review-2000-deaths/
review_date: 2020-01-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
This claim that 2,000 people have died waiting for benefits since a Universal Credit review was announced needs context - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Correct. The Department for Work and Pensions said in July 2019 that it would evaluate how the benefits system worked for those nearing the end of their life and those with severe conditions.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-05-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/swedish-ship/
title: Image said to show a centuries-old ship is actually a photo of a replica - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An image shows a 282-year-old East India trading company ship returning to London for the first time since 1787.

textual_rating:
The vessel in the photo is a replica of an 18th century Swedish ship which sank in 1745. The replica ship was built in 2005, and this image shows it on a visit to London in 2007.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-03-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/chemtrail-spotting-contrail-comparison/
title: Longer contrails aren’t ‘chemtrails’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An image shows the difference between contrails, which are short and wispy and “chemtrails” which are longer and more defined.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence the longer white line of cloud is a “chemtrail”. Contrails—the white lines often seen trailing behind aircraft—can differ in appearance due to a number of factors, including altitude and humidity.


text: The government's Brexit white paper said that UK workers were going to get 14 weeks holiday.
claimant: Rebecca Long-Bailey
claim_date: 2017-02-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/are-we-all-getting-14-weeks-holiday/
title: Are we all getting 14 weeks holiday? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A chart in the paper comparing UK and EU holiday entitlement said that under UK law workers get 14 weeks holiday and under EU law workers get 5.6 weeks of paid maternity leave. It’s actually the other way round. The government has now corrected the chart.


text: The UK’s most popular book is The Modern Kama Sutra.
claimant: Daily Star
claim_date: 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/uk-favourite-book/
title: The Kama Sutra is not the UK’s most popular book - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is wrong and based on data from one online marketplace. Other bestseller compilations from Amazon and Nielsen do not include the Modern Kama Sutra.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/donated-lego-replay-uk-false/
title: Official LEGO donation service not yet available in UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
You can send your old or unwanted LEGO bricks to LEGO’s Replay scheme, which donates the toys to charities that work with children.

textual_rating:
The scheme is not yet available in the UK. There are other UK-based charitable organisations that will accept second hand LEGO.


claimant: Francis Boulle
claim_date: 2021-09-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/FDA-covid-claim/
title: The FDA did not say Covid-19 vaccines are causing more heart attacks - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The FDA said heart attacks following the Covid-19 vaccines are 71 times higher than following other vaccines.

textual_rating:
This claim was not made by the FDA, but by a member of the public during an FDA open meeting. There is no known link between the Covid-19 vaccines and heart attacks.


text: The prosecution service introduced laws making it illegal to use "hoverboards" on public paths.
claimant: Press Association
claim_date: 2015-12-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/hoverboards-and-law/
title: "Hoverboards" and the law - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-12-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is illegal, but not because prosecutors say so. The law making it illegal to ride on the path dates from 1835, and judges confirmed in 2011 that it applies to devices like hoverboards.


claimant: Sunday Times
claim_date: 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/has-number-murders-london-overtaken-new-york/
title: Has the number of murders in London overtaken New York? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
London overtook New York in murders in February for the first time in modern history as the capital endured a dramatic surge in knife crime.

textual_rating:
Mostly correct. More homicides (not just murders) were recorded in London than New York over the past two months. Looking over the longer term the figure is generally higher in New York. There has been a surge in knife crime.


claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2017-02-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/business-rates-how-many-council-areas-will-face-rate-rises/
title: Business rates: how many council areas will face rate rises? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government has been "peddling misinformation" by claiming that business rates will fall in the majority of English council areas next year.

textual_rating:
The government's figures aren't the only way to look at the impact of the revaluation, but it’s not necessarily been "peddling misinformation". Its estimates ignore regular rate rises that match inflation, and assume that some businesses will successfully appeal against the revaluation of their property.  If you factor in inflation and look at the picture before appeals, then most English council areas will see average rates rise from next year.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-08-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/domestic-abuse-free-train/
review_date: 2020-09-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Any woman who needs to travel to find refuge from domestic violence can do so for free on any UK train at the moment. The cost of the ticket will be covered by the relevant rail operator.

title:
It’s true that women escaping domestic abuse can get a free train ticket in Great Britain if they are travelling to refuge accommodation - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Women with a confirmed place at a Women’s Aid member refuge can have a free train ticket to that refuge accommodation. This scheme operates in England, Wales and Scotland. The cost is either covered by the Rail Delivery Group or the train network, depending on where the journey is. A man with a confirmed place in a Women’s Aid partner refuge could also use the scheme.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-claims-symptoms-prevention-viral/
title: List of symptoms and how to prevent the new coronavirus contains inaccuracies - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The symptoms of Covid-19 are a sore throat lasting 3 or 4 days. The virus then blends into nasal fluid, enters the trachea and then the lungs causing pneumonia. With pneumonia comes high fever and difficulty breathing. The nasal congestion feels like you're drowning

textual_rating:
This is a roughly accurate description of the most common symptoms, although not everyone with Covid-19 gets pneumonia, and the symptoms may not come in this exact order or at these times. The NHS does not mention nasal congestion that ‘feels like drowning’ as a specific symptom for Covid-19.


text: Research shows that only 11% of people self-isolate when asked to do so by NHS Test and Trace.
claimant: Anneliese Dodds
claim_date: 2020-11-17T00:00:00Z
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:
This is correct for those who were close contacts of people who had tested positive. A survey in the summer found that only 11% of these people stayed in their homes for the full period required.


text: Refugees or illegal immigrants living in Britain get a total yearly benefit of £29,900.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-11-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pensioners-refugees-fifth-of-benefits/
title: This image on benefits for pensioners and refugees is not correct - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Illegal immigrants cannot collect benefits. Refugees can on the same basis as UK nationals once their request for asylum is granted—but this figure is unusually high.


text: Thousands of women are leaving the island of Ireland to have an abortion in Britain.
claimant: John O'Dowd
claim_date: 2017-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/how-many-women-leave-northern-ireland-have-abortion-britain/
title: How many women leave Northern Ireland to have an abortion in Britain? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-10-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. Around 4,000 women living in Ireland and Northern Ireland came to England and Wales for an abortion in 2016. Seven women not resident in Scotland received an abortion in 2016, but we don’t know where they were from.


text: The government claims it has capacity for 300,000 Covid-19 tests a day.
claimant: Angela Rayner
claim_date: 2020-09-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/angela-rayner-people-tested/
title: Angela Rayner’s testing numbers are not quite right - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The official Coronavirus Dashboard has shown roughly this capacity figure for all tests in the UK (including antibody tests) in the past. It currently shows a daily diagnostic test capacity of around 240,000.


text: Half of all council tenants on Universal Credit are at least a month in arrears in their rent.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-10-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/universal-credit-leading-rent-arrears/
title: Is Universal Credit leading to rent arrears? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-10-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This refers to 105 councils who responded to freedom of information requests. We haven’t seen the data behind it and don’t know what the picture is in the rest of the UK.


text: The new UK-Japan trade deal will mean soy sauce imports from Japan will get cheaper.
claimant: Department for International Trade
claim_date: 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/japan-soy-sauce-bake-off/
title: Soy sauce imports from Japan will not be cheaper next year - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Tariffs on Japanese soy sauce will stay at 0%. Tariffs on soy sauce imports from some other countries may increase, but from others may decrease.


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:
There is a lot more damage being done to UK citizens as a result of Covid-19 vaccinations than in any other vaccination programme in history.

textual_rating:
There is no reliable, publicly-available data to substantiate this claim. No source was provided to evidence his statement.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-04-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/digital-ID-Oxford-15-minute-cities-false/
title: 15 minute cities do not introduce digital IDs - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
15 minute cities mean digital IDs will be introduced. This will involve tracking your spending and movements, which will be limited if you exceed government regulations.

textual_rating:
The 15 minute city is an urban planning concept that does not mandate digital IDs. There are no plans to make digital ID mandatory anywhere in the UK. The post actually describes a social credit system and there is no evidence of plans to trial this.


text: The Covid vaccine is an RNA vaccine. This will actually change your DNA.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/rna-vaccine-covid/
title: RNA Covid-19 vaccines will not change your DNA - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Some of the Covid-19 vaccine candidates are RNA vaccines. These don’t alter your DNA, they comprise of mRNA that gives the body instructions on how to make the proteins on the surface of the virus.


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.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If you are registered to vote in two places you are only allowed to vote in one location in national elections but can choose which at the last minute.


text: Mathematical modellers claimed tens of millions of people were going to die from Covid-19.
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:
Untrue. A report by Imperial College presented to the government suggested that 510,000 people in the UK could die if nothing was done in response to the disease.


text: Bill Gates is a eugenicist who wants to reduce the population of the world.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-03-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/viral-video-contains-several-false-pandemic-claims/
title: Viral video contains several false pandemic claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. Mr Gates has promoted improved healthcare, which he has said may cause the world population to grow more slowly.


claimant: Caroline Johnson
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:
There are an estimated 1,500 cases of myocarditis per million patients with Covid—far greater than the risk of myocarditis following vaccination.

textual_rating:
This statistic is based on a US study published in September 2021, which looked at the association between Covid-19 and myocarditis between March 2020 and January 2021. The dominant variant of Covid-19 has now changed, with some indication that Omicron is a milder disease, so it is not clear that this rate is still relevant.


text: The UK is scheduled to have higher corporation tax than Japan, the USA, France or Germany.
claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2022-07-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/conservative-leadership-2022-fact-checked/
title: Conservative leadership contest: four early claims fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is misleading. If a planned rise in UK corporation tax goes ahead, the UK’s national rate of 25% will be above the rates levied by central government in Germany, the USA and Japan. But once subnational rates are taken into account, the UK’s rate will be below the average rates in these countries.


text: Covid-19 tests cause cancer due to being “laden” with ethylene oxide.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-tests-flu-vaccine-masks-strep/
title: Nasal flu vaccines don’t contain ‘mice bred streptococcal bacteria’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Ethylene oxide is carcinogenic in large enough exposures, but the amount on Covid test swabs and the length of time we are exposed to them poses minimal risk.


title: Pretty Little Thing products can contain lead, but probably not dangerous amounts - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Pretty Little Thing products may contain chemicals that can cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm.

url:
https://fullfact.org/online/pretty-little-thing-products-can-contain-lead-probably-not-dangerous-amounts/

textual_rating:
Pretty Little Thing states in its terms and conditions that some of their products may contain lead. However, it is unlikely the amount present could cause harm.


text: On 8 May 2021 the Genocide Act was repealed. Genocide is now legal.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2021-05-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/genocide-act/
title: The Genocide Act of 1969 has not just been repealed - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The law was repealed in 2001 and replaced by the International Criminal Court Act that also made genocide illegal.


claimant: South West Yorkshire NHS Partnership Foundation Trust
claim_date: 2020-11-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/real-letter-nhs-trust-dealt-no-covid-19-deaths/
title: This is a real letter from an NHS trust that dealt with no Covid-19 deaths - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
South West Yorkshire NHS partnership has not recorded any deaths due to Covid-19 between February and September 2020.

textual_rating:
This is true and comes from a real freedom of information request. However, this NHS trust would be unlikely to treat people seriously ill with Covid-19 because it provides disability, mental health and community services.


text: The Conservatives nearly doubled the debt from £950 billion to £1.8 trillion.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2019-10-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-debt-quote-false/
title: Fake Boris Johnson quote spreads on Facebook - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Broadly correct. Government debt currently stands at just below £1.8 trillion, which is 81% of GDP. In May 2010 when the Conservatives came to office, it was worth just over £1 trillion or 64% of GDP.


text: 99.972% of the UK population did not die of Covid-19.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-04-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-survival-rate-chart-false/
title: The UK’s Covid ‘survival rate’ is lower than 99.972% - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. About 99.76% of the UK population have not died with an underlying cause of death of Covid-19.


text: Re-offending costs up to £13 billion a year.
claimant: David Cameron
claim_date: 2016-02-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/does-reoffending-cost-13-billion-year/
title: Does re-offending cost £13 billion a year? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-02-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This estimate is uncertain and old. It originated in 2000 and has been inflated since then to account for price increases and changes in levels of crime. The researchers themselves say estimating these costs is "inevitably imprecise".


claimant: The Independent
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
text:
In England we use an estimated 8.5 billion plastic straws each year, according to government figures.

textual_rating:
This is based on an old estimate from an environmental consultancy of how many straws the fast food industry in the whole of the UK uses each year. The government has since said it thinks this figure is wrong.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/wef-not-cancel-christmas/
title: The World Economic Forum is not cancelling Christmas - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The World Economic Forum has called for Christmas holiday traditions to be cancelled in coming years as part of an effort to save the environment.

textual_rating:
This is not true. The WEF has not said this, and the claim comes from a video that provides no evidence.


text: Just 2.9% of deaths were caused by Covid-19 in the first three months of 2020.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/ons-2020-covid-first-quarter-deaths/
title: Viral Facebook post is wrong on deaths in first three months of 2020 - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In the first 12 weeks of 2020, less than 1% of deaths registered in England and Wales had Covid-19 on the death certificate, but the rate has since risen to more than 30% for some weeks in April.


text: Hate crimes have increased by 50% since 2010.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-04-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/list-2010-claims/
title: Post comparing the UK today to 2010 has a number of errors - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There are two conflicting measures of hate crimes but neither show a 50% increase. Police recorded hate crime shows a 256% increase while the Crime survey for England and Wales shows a decrease by 29%. Both datasets have flaws but the CSEW is generally considered a more accurate indicator of long-term crime trends.


claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-06-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-grandma-hoax/
title: Plea to help find missing grandma on Facebook is a hoax - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A Facebook user is looking for their missing grandma with dementia in various locations around the UK.

textual_rating:
The post is a hoax. It uses a photo of a woman who went missing in Wisconsin, US, in 2018 and was found the following day.


text: Buzz Aldrin has admitted that he never went to the Moon.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-03-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/buzz-aldrin-moon-landing-fake/
title: Video clips don’t show Buzz Aldrin admitting he never went to the Moon - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence Mr Aldrin has ever directly admitted this. The three clips used as evidence for this claim have all been taken out of context.


text: Pope Francis has said disabled people should be euthanised to fight climate change.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pope-euthanasia-climate-change/
title: Pope did not say disabled people should be ‘euthanized’ to fight climate change - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no record of the Pope having ever said this. The leader of the Catholic church has repeatedly spoken out against euthanasia and assisted suicide.


text: Annual net migration increased by 100,000 between June 2022 and December 2022.
claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2023-05-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/the-sun-net-migration-graph/
title: Sun corrects net migration graph which didn’t reflect the latest data - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Revised Office for National Statistics figures published recently show that net migration in the year ending June 2022 was around 606,000—the same as in the year ending December 2022.


claimant: NewsPunch
claim_date: 2023-01-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/WEF-paedophilia-fake-quotes/
title: The World Economic Forum has not called for paedophilia to be decriminalised - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: A World Economic Forum spokesperson has denied these quotes.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The World Economic Forum is calling for the decriminalisation of sex with children, and its co-founder Klaus Schwab described paedophilia as “nature’s gift”.


text: Starbucks stores in the UK are going cashless.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-08-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/starbucks-uk-cashless/
title: No plans for Starbucks to go cashless across the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no plan for Starbucks stores across the UK to go cashless. Starbucks runs a franchise model in the UK, and a sign about cashless payments shared widely on social media is from one store.


text: Two thirds of police forces are rated good or outstanding.
claimant: Liz Truss
claim_date: 2017-03-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/how-many-police-forces-are-rated-good-or-outstanding/
title: How many police forces are rated good or outstanding? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct based on HMIC’s most recent report on police effectiveness. Of the 43 police forces in England and Wales one was found to be outstanding and 28 were good in 2016. That’s just over two thirds.


text: The Queen’s funeral will cost around £8 million.
claimant: AJ+
claim_date: 2022-09-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/queen-funeral-costs/
title: How much will the Queen’s funeral cost? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We’ve not been able to find evidence to support this figure, but royal funerals have cost roughly this much in the past.


text: Giving dogs ice in hot weather causes them to overheat.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-07-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/dogs-hot-ice/
title: It is generally fine to give your dog small amounts of ice - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It is generally fine to give your dog ice. If they appear to have heat stroke, cool them slowly without using ice and call the vet.


text: You’re far more likely to die in a car crash this year.
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
textual_rating: Correct. Around one in 35,720 people in Britain die in a road accident each year.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
The chance of being killed by a cow and other AstraZeneca vaccine risk comparisons explained - Full Fact


text: We already turn around 90% of tests within 48 hours.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-06-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/new-data-reveals-pms-testing-speeds-claims-as-wrong/
title: New data reveals PM’s testing speeds claims as wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Test times covering early June when the claim was made are only available for around half of antigen tests. That means we can’t say whether or not this is accurate.


text: Nine in 10 major businesses in the UK have had cyber-attacks in the last year.
claimant: Dido Harding, Chief Executive of TalkTalk Group, Radio 4 Today
claim_date: 2015-11-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/how-many-major-businesses-have-experienced-cyber-attack/
title: How many major businesses have experienced a cyber-attack? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-11-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure refers to businesses reporting having experienced <I>some</I> form of information security breach in the last year. The survey it's based on isn't representative of the frequency of cyber-attacks in all large businesses across the UK.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/no-evidence-theresa-may-lesbianism-quote/
title: There is no evidence to suggest Theresa May said this about lesbianism - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-10T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: There is no evidence she ever said this.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Theresa May once said “curbing the promotion of lesbianism in Merton's schools starts with girls having male role models in their lives.”


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
text:
The International Criminal Court in The Hague has acknowledged documents associated with a campaign to end the Covid-19 vaccine rollout.

textual_rating:
This is true, but this is only a standard acknowledgement of a complaint and not proof of an investigation or wrongdoing.


text: Ofcom has rules that the Green Party can't take part in the televised leaders' debates.
claimant: Huffington Post
claim_date: 2015-01-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/factcheck-did-ofcom-say-greens-cant-take-part-leaders-tv-debates/
title: Factcheck: Did Ofcom say the Greens can't take part in leaders' TV debates? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-01-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It's not the regulator's call, but keeping the Greens off the list of 'major parties' means broadcasters are legally entitled to leave them out of the debates.


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
text:
Russia was the first country in the world to dissect Covid-19 corpses (going against WHO’s criminal orders of no autopsies.)

textual_rating:
This is false. Scientists in Wuhan, China performed post-mortems as early as 16 February 2020, while the first Covid-19 death in Russia wasn’t announced until March 2020.


text: The average pensioner household is now better off than the average working household.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2017-04-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/are-pensioners-better-people-working-age/
title: Are pensioners better off than people of working age? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-04-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s correct, once you account for housing costs, according to research done by the Resolution Foundation think tank. The Institute for Fiscal Studies also found in 2015 that the median income among pensioners, after housing costs, was 5% ahead of the typical non-pensioner. It’s not the case before housing costs.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-06-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mark-field-fake-tweets/
title: These Mark Field tweets are fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The tweets are fake.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Mark Field MP tweeted in 2011 about threatening a girl on the tube and in 2014 in favour of beating women and children.


text: 53 people have died in Gibraltar in 10 days after vaccinations with the Pfizer Covid-19 started.
claimant: Medical Kidnap
claim_date: 2021-01-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/gibraltar-covid-vaccine/
title: 53 people have not died in Gibraltar because of the Covid-19 vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
As of 27 January, out of more than 11,000 vaccinated, six have died after receiving the vaccine, but there’s no evidence these deaths were related to the vaccine. 54 have died with or of Covid-19 in Gibraltar since vaccinations started on 10 January.


text: 61% of the public would back Remain in a second referendum.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/do-61-percent-back-remain/
title: Does 61% of the country now back Remain? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is only true in polls that limit the choice to two options: remaining in the EU or leaving with the current deal. When other options are included, support is lower.


text: The government hasn’t delivered even a quarter of the childcare places they claimed they would.
claimant: Tracy Brabin
claim_date: 2017-09-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/30-hours-free-childcare-only-quarter-places-delivered/
title: 30 hours free childcare: only a quarter of places delivered? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-10-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This would have been correct based on old government policy, but the number of planned places has been reduced since then. The latest figures show the government has delivered just over half of the places it expects to.


text: In 2021, 215 people aged 15-19 died by suicide.
claimant: Sunday Express
claim_date: 2022-10-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/sunday-express-teenage-suicide-2021/
title: Sunday Express misinterprets suicide data - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not correct. In 2021, 215 deaths by suicide among people aged 15-19 were registered in England and Wales, but the ONS has warned that some of these registrations may have been delayed from the previous year.


text: The UK is the only EU country with no time limit on immigration detention.
claimant: Gavin Newlands
claim_date: 2016-11-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/limits-immigration-detention/
title: Limits on immigration detention - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct, although the courts have said that the government can’t hold people for ‘unreasonable’ periods of time.


claimant: Maggie Chapman
claim_date: 2018-01-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/junior-doctors-visa/
title: Are junior doctors paid enough to get a UK visa? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-02-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
We can't attract junior doctors from around the world because they won’t actually earn enough to meet the minimum income requirements.

textual_rating:
A first-year junior doctor typically earns £26,500, rising to £31,000 in their second year. To get a visa, most non-EEA junior doctors usually have to be earning £30,000, or £20,800 if they’re under 26. However, at the end of 2017 the threshold was effectively £55,000.


text: There are more than one million people using steroids in the UK
claimant: Luke Evans
claim_date: 2022-05-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/steroids-bodybuilding-image-prevalence/
title: Are one million people in the UK using anabolic steroids? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The one million figure has been circulated widely but can be traced back to an extrapolated estimate from 2015. A recent review by a panel of 55 experts suggests a more accurate figure could be around half of that.


text: After nine years of a Conservative government, the NHS waiting list has increased by 70%.
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:
In May 2019 there were 4.4 million referrals for treatment on the NHS in England, where the treatment had not yet begun. That’s an increase of 70% compared to May 2010. The period covers coalition and Conservative governments.


text: Crime has been falling and not just because of the lockdowns.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2021-10-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/crime-falling-pandemic/
title: Falling crime is related to pandemic lockdowns - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There has been a small drop in police-recorded crime, not including fraud. This was mostly driven by reductions in theft. Crime levels over the last year have been significantly impacted by Covid-19 lockdowns.


claimant: Dr Alan Whitehead MP
claim_date: 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
title: Would early closure of the Renewables Obligation to onshore wind cost £100 million? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-12-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government's impact assessment showed that we would be £100 million worse off because of the early closure of the Renewables Obligation.

url:
https://fullfact.org/economy/would-early-closure-renewables-obligation-onshore-wind-cost-100-million/

textual_rating:
The government's best estimate is that the net present value of the early closure is about £160 million, a positive figure. The £100 million worse off estimate comes from making different assumptions about how the UK would generate electricity.


claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-03-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/rishi-sunak-college-of-policing-vetting/
title: Is the police vetting code of practice legally binding? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
All police forces are legally required to follow the College of Policing’s statutory code of practice on vetting.

textual_rating:
Police chiefs in England and Wales are legally required to “have regard” to the code of practice, but aren’t legally required to follow everything in it, or more detailed associated guidance published by the college.


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:
Households can still meet with another household in a pub, bar or restaurant, up to six people from a number of households can meet outside, social distancing hasn’t changed, and businesses like gyms and hotels can remain open.

textual_rating:
You cannot socialise with people outside your household in pubs, bars or restaurants, in Greater Manchester and parts of Lancashire and West Yorkshire as of 31 July 2020. Up to six people can meet outside from a number of households and social distancing hasn’t changed. Gyms and other indoor sporting facilities in Bradford must also close.


claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2020-03-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/kings-app/
review_date: 2020-03-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Data from a new app which tracks symptoms of Covid-19 claims that up to 6.6 million people in the UK have the disease.

title:
We don’t know how many people in the UK have Covid-19 and the symptom tracker app doesn’t tell us - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This data cannot be extrapolated to the UK population. The number of people with Covid-19 may be higher, lower, or the same as claimed.


text: Leaving the EU would or could cut net migration by 100,000
claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2015-01-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/net-migration-fall-100000-uk-left-eu/
title: Would net migration fall by 100,000 if the UK left the EU? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-01-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Nobody knows. It’s an unofficial “ball park figure” for one possible exit scenario and the prediction depends on assumptions which might or might not come true.


text: The survival rate for Covid-19 is 98.54% in the UK.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/survival-rate-figures/
title: We don’t know the true Covid-19 survival rate yet - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We don’t know what the survival rate is yet, as we don’t know how many people have had the disease. This figure comes from a claim about the US which is a slight over-estimate based on available figures.


claimant: Robert Jenrick
claim_date: 2022-11-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/robert-jenrick-fifth-male-migrants-under-18/
title: No published data to support minister’s claim about migrants saying they’re under 18 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
At times up to 20% of adult men arriving at the Western Jet Foil asylum processing centre in Dover claim to be under 18.

textual_rating:
There is no published data to support this claim. The Home Office told us it was based on provisional operational data, which has not been made public. The Office for Statistics Regulation has written to the Home Office about its use of the statistic.


text: After leaving the EU, the UK will be able to abolish VAT on energy bills.
claimant: Vote Leave
claim_date: 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/nhs-eu-funding-and-vat-possible-effects-leaving-eu/
title: NHS, EU funding and VAT: possible effects of leaving the EU - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
EU rules mean we cannot reduce VAT on household energy any lower than the 5% that’s currently charged. If the UK left, it would be possible to reduce VAT on household fuel below this rate.


text: We are selling more to our global partners - £13.6 billion - than to the EU.
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:
It’s correct that in April 2021 the UK exported more goods to non-EU countries (£13.6 billion) than to EU countries (£12.9 billion).


text: 51% of journalists were public school educated compared to 7% of the total population.
claimant: Kerry-Anne Mendoza
claim_date: 2017-06-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/how-many-journalists-went-public-school/
title: How many journalists went to public school? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-06-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
51% of the UK’s ‘top 100’ journalists educated and working in the UK in 2015 attended a private school, according to the Sutton Trust. 7% of pupils in England attend a private school—that’s been the case for at least the last 15 years. Elsewhere in the UK the proportion is lower.


text: Messages encouraging users to upgrade to WhatsApp Gold should be ignored.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/whatsapp-gold/
title: WhatsApp Gold scams are real, but these other threats are made up - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. WhatsApp Gold does not exist, but there are numerous “WhatsApp Gold” scams which encourage people to download the fake app which may be harmful for their computer or mobile device.


text: There has been a 95% fall in new affordable homes to buy under the Conservatives.
claimant: The Labour Party
claim_date: 2022-05-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-affordable-housing-fall-95-conservatives/
review_date: 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Labour makes misleading claim about fall in affordable housing under Conservative government - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is based on a misleading analysis of official statistics. A like-for-like comparison of the number of affordable and shared ownership homes available to buy between 2009/10 and 2020/21 puts the fall at 18%.


text: The flu vaccine doesn’t work because the flu has not been eliminated.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-vaccine-compared-to-flu-vaccine/
title: It's incorrect to say flu vaccines don't work - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The flu vaccine prevents illness and deaths. However, it can only protect against some of the ever-changing viruses that cause the flu.


text: More than four million calls to the taxman are going unanswered, new figures show.
claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2018-05-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/hmrc-unanswered-calls/
title: HMRC: how many unanswered calls? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This was the case in 2016/17, according to analysis from the National Audit Office. This year the figure is higher. Around 5.6 million customer calls to HMRC (13%) were unanswered between April 2017 and February 2018.


text: There was more ice than ever before at the polar ice caps in 2015.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/polar-ice-al-gore/
title: There wasn’t more polar ice “than ever” in 2015 - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. The extent of Antarctic sea ice did peak in 2015, before hitting a low in 2016, but Arctic sea ice and the land ice sheets at both poles have been steadily shrinking for decades.


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 EU imposes taxes or “tariffs” on rice, oranges, coffee, wine, children’s clothes and other non-EU imports.

textual_rating:
Correct, though not all non-EU trade is subject to tariffs. The EU has arrangements—including trade deals—with non-EU countries that reduce or remove these tariffs.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/the-cdc-has-not-said-pcr-tests-dont-work/
title: The CDC has not said PCR tests don’t work - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The CDC is removing its request for emergency use authorisation of PCR tests. This is evidence that PCR tests don’t work, are fraudulent and cannot distinguish between influenza and Covid-19.

textual_rating:
The CDC has given laboratories advance warning that they will stop requesting approval for one type of PCR test. This is because there are now other, more efficient PCR tests available. Some of these can simultaneously test for influenza viruses as well as SARS-CoV-2 to avoid having to take multiple samples or run multiple tests on the same sample if it is negative for SARS-CoV-2.


text: Gatherings of more than 30 people are illegal under the current Covid-19 guidelines.
claimant: Metropolitan Police
claim_date: 2021-06-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/metropolitan-police-protesters/
title: More than 30 people are allowed to protest - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There are some exceptions, including for protests which have been organised by a suitable body and undergone risk assessments.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-12-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Oxford-traffic-scheme/
title: Oxford traffic scheme won’t ‘confine’ residents to specific neighbourhoods - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Oxford is to trial a “climate lockdown” which will confine residents to their local neighbourhood and require them to ask permission to leave.

textual_rating:
The traffic scheme being trialled will restrict when many drivers including local residents can use six major roads across the city. But the scheme won’t block residents from travelling outside their local neighbourhoods or place any restrictions on where they can go via other forms of transport.


text: The UK received 24,000 asylum applications last year, far fewer than other EU countries.
claimant: Peter Sutherland
claim_date: 2015-07-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/un-wrong-asylum-seekers-britain/
title: UN wrong on asylum seekers in Britain - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-08-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It's 31,000 including family members, the sixth highest number in the EU. Adjusting for population size, the UK is 18th out of 30 European countries.


text: The UK government no longer considers Covid-19 to be a “high consequence infectious disease”.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-hcid/
title: Covid-19 may not be a “high consequence infectious disease”, but it is a real emergency - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is true, because it no longer meets the criteria for an HCID. This doesn’t mean that it is no longer considered dangerous.


text: All non-EU trade through the port of Southampton is ‘WTO’.
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:
This is misleading. Much non-EU trade through Southampton happens under preferential terms negotiated between the EU and other countries, not on basic WTO terms.


text: The Covid-19 virus is fake.
claimant: Instagram account
claim_date: 2023-07-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-fake-virus/
title: Covid isn’t fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It is not. The virus has been isolated many times. It has killed almost seven million people worldwide and continues to circulate.


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:
Masks decrease oxygen intake, increase carbon dioxide intake, increase toxin intake, increase stress levels which directly impacts the immune system in a negative way making us more susceptible to illness.

textual_rating:
Fabric and medical face masks should not affect breathing and the NHS says they are safe for anyone over the age of three who can manage them correctly. Certain types of masks called respirators can affect gas exchange, but can still be safely worn for several hours in a row in healthcare environments. There’s no evidence masks harm the immune system.


claimant: Sue Hayman
claim_date: 2019-09-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/environment/does-badger-culling-work/
title: Does badger culling work? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Official data shows that incidents of bovine TB increased dramatically in areas of Gloucestershire despite the badger cull.

textual_rating:
The number of new TB incidents increased by 130% in one area of Gloucestershire from 2017 to 2018. However, you cannot judge the effectiveness of badger culling based on a one-year change in one part of the country. Wider evidence suggests the effect of culling on the spread of bovine TB is limited.


text: MPs have had a 42.7% pay increase since 2008 and junior doctors a 25% decrease since 2010.
claimant: Ian Byrne
claim_date: 2023-04-12T00:00:00Z
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:
It is not clear how these figures have been calculated, but they don’t appear to be quite right. In cash terms, MPs’ salaries rose about 37% between 2008 and 2023. In real terms, factoring in RPI inflation, the BMA says junior doctors had a 26% pay cut between 2008/09 and 2021/22.


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
text:
Before the EU referendum George Osborne claimed up to 820,000 jobs could be lost within two years if Britain chose to leave.

textual_rating:
Correct. Mr Osborne did claim this. He was referring to Treasury analysis which said the worst case scenario following a leave vote could increase the number of unemployed people by 820,000.


text: Vaccine manufacturers have never claimed their vaccines stop transmission of Covid-19.
claimant: David Icke
claim_date: 2021-05-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/david-icke-makes-false-claim-that-vaccines-are-gene-therapy/
title: David Icke makes false claim that vaccines are ‘gene therapy’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true and there’s plenty of evidence to show how the vaccines do considerably reduce transmission.


text: The UK is doing more Covid-19 tests than virtually any country in Europe.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-05-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-testing-europe/
title: We still don’t know if the UK does the most Covid-19 tests in Europe - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK appears to be testing fewer people than in Russia. But there isn’t enough data on this to determine for sure where the UK places, and the UK’s data isn’t particularly comparable with other countries.


claimant: David Davis
claim_date: 2017-05-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/how-much-more-nhs-spending-private-providers/
title: How much more is the NHS spending on private providers? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The proportion of the NHS budget spent on private providers rose much more quickly under the last Labour government than it has since then.

textual_rating:
This is overstating the available figures, which only show spending since 2006/07. The growth rate is similar under both governments, and is higher under Labour counting its spending up to 2010/11.


claimant: Sunday Times
claim_date: 2018-07-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/are-grammar-schools-facing-crisis-funding/
title: Are grammar schools facing a crisis of funding? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Some grammar schools get less than £4,500 per pupil. Other state schools can receive as much as £8,000.

textual_rating:
Correct. In 2016/17 English grammars received on average £4,500 per pupil while other state schools received £5,200.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/bbc-world-trade-center-7-september-11/
title: Error in BBC reporting doesn’t mean 9/11 was scripted - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The fact a BBC journalist reported the collapse of World Trade Center 7 before it actually happened means 9/11 was a “scripted, actor based reality”.

textual_rating:
It’s true that a BBC journalist reported the collapse of World Trade Center 7 almost half an hour before it fell, as did a number of other news services. There is no evidence this was due to insider information or a “scripted” version of the terror attack.


text: Traffic cameras in Leeds city centre “capture faces”.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-03-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Leeds-traffic-face-scanners/
title: Traffic cameras in Leeds city centre cannot ‘capture faces’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The sensors do not capture faces but can distinguish between types of road users, including buses, cars, pedestrians and cyclists.


text: In a day, Italy sent home more than 14,000 patients after treating them with Aspirin and Apronax.
claimant: Blog post
claim_date: 2020-06-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/italy-covid-5g/
title: Facebook post about Italy, coronavirus and 5G is almost all false - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Italian Medicines Agency doesn’t mention aspirin or apronax in its list drugs used to treat Covid-19 outside of clinical trials. And there’s no record of a day when 14,000 people were sent home from hospital in Italy.


claimant: Matt Le Tissier
claim_date: 2022-08-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/pregnancy-advice-covid-vaccine-change/
title: Pregnant and breastfeeding women are still advised to get the Covid-19 vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK government has quietly u-turned on its advice for pregnant and breastfeeding women and the Covid-19 vaccine, and now advises them not to get vaccinated.

textual_rating:
The advice remains that those pregnant or breastfeeding should get the Covid-19 vaccine. The claim seems to be based on an old document, dating from when there wasn’t lots of data about the safety of the vaccine in pregnancy or during breastfeeding.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-06-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/dorset-eye-boris-johnson-covid/
title: Conspiracy theory about Boris Johnson not having Covid-19 is back - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is not true. It comes from an invented article labelled as “satire”.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
All staff at St Thomas’ Hospital were required to sign the Official Secrets Act when Boris Johnson was admitted with Covid-19. Two doctors who disagreed with his diagnosis refused, and were sent home 'on leave'.


text: Net migration to the UK could be 100,000 higher after Brexit under the government’s plans.
claimant: Migration Watch UK
claim_date: 2019-02-13T00:00:00Z
title: Here’s why Migration Watch got their study on post-Brexit immigration wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The study this is based on is inaccurate and has been withdrawn.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/immigration/heres-why-migration-watch-got-their-study-post-brexit-immigration-wrong/


text: A relentless workload is forcing teachers to leave the profession for lower paid jobs.
claimant: TES
claim_date: 2015-12-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/relentless-workload-forcing-teachers-leave-lower-paid-jobs/
title: Is a relentless workload forcing teachers to leave for lower paid jobs? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-12-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Research found people leaving teaching roles in state schools are ending up in jobs which are on average lower paid, at least in their first year. It's not clear to what extent workload pressures are encouraging teachers to leave for lower paid jobs specifically.


text: We spent just over £1 trillion bailing out the banks after the financial crisis.
claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/1-trillion-not-spent-bailing-out-banks/
title: £1 trillion was not spent on bailing out banks during the financial crisis - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect, the total government spend was £137 billion. Most of this has been paid back and around £27 billion is still outstanding. Around £1 trillion worth of financial guarantees were provided to investors—but these were promises designed to restore confidence in the banks, not cash for spending.


text: England kept £452.5 billion of Scottish taxes. Without Scotland’s money England would be bankrupt.
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:
This ignores the fact that the UK government has some responsibilities for spending in Scotland directly and for areas of spending in or for Scotland. Since 2001/02 more money has been spent in or for Scotland than raised there.


text: 95% of doctors completing foundation training were still working in the NHS.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-06-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/doctors-nhs-rishi-sunak-australia/
title: How many doctors are moving to Australia? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It is not clear where this 95% figure comes from, though NHS England cited a 2017 General Medical Council report which said only around 7% of doctors in the 2012 cohort completing the foundation programme had not returned to UK training after five years. The 93% continuing UK training is very close to Mr Sunak’s figure. But Downing Street has not confirmed which data the PM was referring to.


text: People earning minimum wage take home £1,014.60 per four-week month after taxes.
claimant: TikTok video
claim_date: 2022-06-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/living-wage-take-home-pay/
title: Living expense calculations ignore that not all income is taxed - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure does not take into account the fact that some income is exempt from income tax and National Insurance contributions.
Once this is factored in, the true figure for take-home pay of someone on the National Living Wage is currently £1,308 per four-week month. This does not include any benefits that the person might be entitled to.


text: Flu is killing many more people than Covid-19 at the moment.
claimant: Dan Wootton
claim_date: 2020-08-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/flu-covid-deaths/
title: Flu isn’t the underlying cause of death for more people than Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There isn’t evidence for this. Although we don’t have detailed data on recent deaths, there are almost certainly fewer deaths where flu is identified as the underlying cause compared to Covid-19.


claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2023-01-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/ulez-expansion-public-consultation/
title: Daily Mail corrects column on opposition to ULEZ expansion - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A public consultation by Transport for London in November showed 80% opposition to the expansion of London’s ultra low emission zone.

textual_rating:
The Daily Mail has confirmed this figure refers only to public consultation respondents who identified themselves as business owners in outer London. Overall, around 60% of total respondents opposed the expansion, although the consultation’s results are not representative of the London population.


claimant: Liz Truss
claim_date: 2022-09-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/Truss-energy-price-guarantee/
title: Liz Truss wrong to claim ‘no household’ will pay more than £2,500 on energy bills - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Under the government’s new energy support package nobody is having to pay more than £2,500 on their bills.

textual_rating:
This figure refers to the amount a household will pay, based on average energy usage. Depending on property type and energy usage, some households will pay more than this, although some will pay less.


text: People knew about Covid-19 in 2018.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-04-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-tests-world-bank/
title: Trade data doesn’t show we knew about Covid in 2018 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Confusion arose due to the fact that a trade export website changed the name of a number of medical diagnostic test exports to “COVID-19 Diagnostic Test”.


text: The Covid-19 vaccine might kill children who receive it.
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 impossible, but the risk appears to be extremely small. We can find no evidence of a child dying as a result of a Covid-19 vaccine in the UK.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-09-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/86-per-cent-children-adverse-reaction-pfizer/
title: Figures about Pfizer side effects for children need more context - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
86% of children suffered an adverse reaction to the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in clinical trials.

textual_rating:
This figure is correct, but ignores vital context. The adverse reaction in question was pain at the injection site, an extremely common side effect for many vaccines. Most of the study participants (aged 12 to 15 years old) reported only mild or moderate pain.


text: Covid-19 vaccines have caused 172 miscarriages since January 2021.
claimant: The Daily Expose
claim_date: 2021-06-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Covid-vaccine-miscarriage-false/
title: Website makes false claims about vaccines and miscarriages - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Miscarriages have been reported following vaccination, but there’s no evidence to show vaccines were the cause. The number of miscarriages reported after vaccination does not appear to exceed the number you would ordinarily expect.


text: Firms bidding for government contracts are being asked if they back Brexit.
claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/do-companies-bidding-government-contracts-have-back-brexit/
title: Do companies bidding for government contracts have to back Brexit? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There are two examples so far of companies tendering for digital work with the Department for International Trade being asked, as part of the selection criteria for the job, to show that they are “committed to the best possible outcome for the United Kingdom following its departure from the European Union”. The government says that’s not the same as firms being asked if they “back Brexit”.


claimant: Danny Kruger
claim_date: 2022-10-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/vaccine-safety-westminster-debate/
title: MPs' vaccine debate fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
We were led to believe that the vaccine reduced transmission, however Pfizer has now admitted its vaccine was never tested to see if it reduced transmission.

textual_rating:
Pfizer was always clear it did not test whether the vaccines reduced the risk of transmission among already infected individuals. However,  the trial did show the vaccines reduced infection risk in the first place, so reduced the risk of onward infection.


claimant: Mail Online
claim_date: 2021-09-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mail-understates-covid-children-risk/
title: Daily Mail understates the risks of Covid-19 to children - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Fewer than 300 children have been hospitalised with Covid-19 in England since the pandemic began and all but around 20 had underlying health issues.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. These appear to be the figures for intensive care admissions, not hospital admissions. They also do not include admissions with PIMS-TS. In total, there were 7,050 hospital admissions of children under 18 up to the end of February 2021, 3,181 involving children without underlying health conditions.


text: England has been named second worst nation for child happiness.
claimant: The Independent
claim_date: 2015-08-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/england-not-named-worlds-second-worst-nation-child-happiness/
title: England not named world's second worst nation for child happiness - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-08-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The research only shows England's performance compared to 14 other countries, not worldwide. Other surveys tell a different story.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/muslims-in-the-uk/
title: ‘Facts’ in a graphic about UK Muslims are mostly wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There are four million Muslims out of the 66 million in the population, which amounts to 16% of the population.

textual_rating:
There are probably around four million Muslims in the UK, and the national population is now closer to 67.1 million, but this still means Muslims only make up about 6% of the total.


text: Covid-19 vaccines could cause neurodegenerative diseases in young people.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2022-01-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Covid-vaccines-neurodegenerative-disorders/
title: Covid-19 vaccines are not associated with developing neurodegenerative diseases - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The MHRA has told Full Fact there is “no credible evidence” of an association between the Covid-19 vaccines and neurodegenerative diseases.


text: Millions of people have been injured by the vaccines.
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:
This is based on a common misunderstanding of the Yellow Card monitoring system. Suspected adverse events reported through the system are not proven side effects.


text: King Charles inherited an estate worth £22 billion.
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:
It is unclear where the exact £22 billion figure comes from but it appears to include properties held by the Crown Estate and Duchy of Lancaster among other things.


text: Local NHS has been allocated £570 billion to fund the NHS Long Term Plan.
claimant: NHS England
claim_date: 2019-01-10T00:00:00Z
title: Will local NHS services in England have £570 billion to spend over the next five years? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/health/will-local-nhs-services-england-have-570-billion-spend-over-next-five-years/

textual_rating:
Over the next five years across England, CCGs’ budgets are expected to total around £570 billion in cash terms. Funding is set to increase by around £3 billion each year in real terms.


text: The average deposit for a first-time buyer is going up to £9,000.
claimant: Keir Starmer
claim_date: 2023-05-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-average-first-time-buyer-deposit/
review_date: 2023-05-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Keir Starmer’s claim about first-time buyers’ deposits based on estimate of future increases - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This isn’t correct. Labour says Mr Starmer was referring to deposits increasing by £9,000 instead. The £9,000 figure is based on a consultancy estimate which appears to project the extra savings required for a “typical” first-time buyer’s deposit by 2030. The English Housing Survey found the average deposit for a first-time buyer in 2021/22 was around £44,000, and other estimates are higher.


text: The UK is now capable of producing 80% of our own PPE.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2022-01-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/boris-johnson-domestic-ppe-pmqs/
title: Boris Johnson’s PPE figures don’t tell the whole story - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is based on a snapshot figure from a year ago, and doesn’t include gloves which make up around 45% of the UK’s PPE demand.


claimant: Danny Kruger
claim_date: 2022-10-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/vaccine-safety-westminster-debate/
title: MPs' vaccine debate fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Vaccine injuries have been under-reported by one in 10, meaning that there may be 10 times more vaccine-related injuries than the yellow card scheme reports.

textual_rating:
This is an old figure. The MHRA, who published it, have explicitly said it should not be applied to the Covid-19 vaccines as there is a much greater awareness of the scheme.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-03-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Biden-ice-cream-distraction/
title: Video showing President Biden distracted by ice-cream van has been edited - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The video has been edited. There is no ice-cream van or music in the original footage.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video shows President Biden getting distracted and following an ice-cream van while Dr Jill Biden makes a speech.


text: Asylum seekers have to live on just £37.75 per week.
claimant: Zarah Sultana
claim_date: 2020-08-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/tax-gap-asylum-benefits/
title: Comparing tax dodging and benefits for people seeking asylum - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
People seeking asylum who are homeless or can’t afford food typically receive £37.75 per week. The level is slightly higher for young children and pregnant women or new mothers. This is in addition to furnished housing and utilities which are provided for no cost.


text: The vaccine will change your DNA.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/antivax-video-march-2021/
title: Social media video makes false claims about Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. Some of the coronavirus vaccines use mRNA, which instructs the body on how to build immune proteins called antibodies against SARS-Cov-2 (the virus that causes Covid-19). They do not change, or interact with your DNA.


text: Most secondary schools use teachers not trained in their subject
claimant: The Independent
claim_date: 2016-03-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/do-most-secondary-schools-use-non-specialist-teachers/
title: Do most secondary schools use non-specialist teachers? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-03-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Two-thirds of people responding to a survey by a school and college leaders’ union said recruitment problems have led them to have subjects taught by non-specialists. We don’t know how representative that figure is of the experience of schools nationally. Official figures show that about one in six lessons in the key academic subjects in English secondary schools were being taught by teachers without a relevant post A level qualification in 2014. Around 24% of maths teachers and 21% of English teachers didn’t have a relevant post A level qualification in that year.


text: Many NHS staff will actually get a 1.7% increase to their wages.
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2021-03-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-pay-bands-march-2021/
title: What’s the deal with NHS pay rises? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The government has proposed increasing NHS salaries by 1%. Additionally it will spend 0.7% more on increasing the salaries of around 10% of staff significantly while the majority of staff will not benefit from this funding.


text: Young people are about twice as likely to suffer from “long Covid” after a coronavirus infection
claimant: Matt Hancock
claim_date: 2020-10-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/matt-hancock-long-covid/
title: Matt Hancock got the evidence about long Covid wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is incorrect, based on the data Mr Hancock mentioned, which suggests that people over 70 have about twice the risk of people under 50.


text: Contaminated drugs are flooding the UK.
claimant: Kate Shemirani
claim_date: 2023-03-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/kate-shemirani-cause-death/
title: The UK is not being flooded with contaminated drugs - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s unclear what is meant by this claim, but the MHRA says that it has no evidence to suggest contaminated medicines were entering the UK legal supply chain. However, it is running a campaign to warn people against buying fake medicines or medical products online.


text: NHS staff do 11 hours a week unpaid overtime on average.
claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2020-07-20T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2020-07-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/health/mirror-claims-nhs-staff-work-11-hours-unpaid-overtime-on-average-but-its-probably-more-like-two-hours/

title:
Mirror claims NHS staff work 11 hours unpaid overtime on average but it’s probably more like two hours - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Incorrect. The NHS staff survey suggests NHS staff in England do around two hours unpaid overtime on average, but even this figure should be taken with a pinch of salt.


claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/boris-johnson-affordable-housing-conservative-labour/
review_date: 2022-06-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Conservative-led Coalition built more affordable homes in one year after 2010 than the Labour party did in 13 years in office.

title:
The Coalition did not build more affordable homes in a year than Labour did in 13 years of government - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Incorrect. More than 550,000 affordable homes were completed during the period of Labour government. The most completed in any subsequent year of Conservative or coalition government has been about 66,000.


claimant: Andrew Bowie
claim_date: 2019-09-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/lib-dems-first-call-eu-referendum/
title: Were the Lib Dems the first party to campaign for an EU referendum? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Liberal Democrats were the first party to call for an in/out referendum on the UK’s EU membership.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. The Referendum Party called for a referendum in the 1990s. The earliest call we’ve seen for a referendum from the Lib Dems was in 2007.


text: The rollout of liaison therapy may have contributed to a 6% fall in suicide rates.
claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2017-11-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mental-health-crisis-care/
title: Mental health crisis care - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-12-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This fall did happen but the link can’t be proved. Experts say liaison services can play a role in reducing suicides, but there’s no way to prove the extent to which one caused the other, and the rates tend to fluctuate from year to year anyway.


text: Most of the world trades with the EU on WTO terms.
claimant: James Delingpole
claim_date: 2019-01-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/who-trades-eu-under-wto-rules/
title: Who trades with the EU under WTO rules? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Of 135 non-EU full members of the World Trade Organisation, 58 currently trade with the EU under negotiated trade terms, and another 47 have preferential access to EU markets.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-08-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/heart-attacks-covid/
title: No evidence the media is covering up vaccine deaths with stories about heart issues - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Vaccines have led to a significant rise in mortality and journalists are writing cover-up stories to explain away deaths.

textual_rating:
There’s no evidence vaccines have led to a rise in mortality, and they have actually prevented deaths from Covid-19. The stories referenced refer to scientific papers that have linked various activities, foods or environmental factors to heart problems and other issues.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-06-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/get-sterilised-poster-billboard-london/
title: Genuine ‘get sterilised’ poster appeared in Islington in 2019 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An image shows a billboard poster in London asking people to “imagine a city less crowded” and telling them to “do your part” and “get sterilised”.

textual_rating:
This poster did appear on a billboard in London in 2019. It was created by a street artist specialising in parodying corporate advertising and branding.


text: Youth unemployment is at a record low.
claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2023-03-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/jeremy-hunt-youth-unemployment-low/
title: Youth unemployment no longer at historic low - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It is correct that 2022 had the lowest one-year rate on record. But quarterly data shows that the rate of youth unemployment reached an all-time low in the summer of 2022, but has risen since then.


text: Theresa May has agreed a £39 billion Brexit bill with the EU.
claimant: Change Britain
claim_date: 2018-08-27T00:00:00Z
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:
The UK government has agreed to a Brexit bill in principle, though an exact amount hasn’t been confirmed. The latest estimates suggest it will be around £35-39 billion.


text: More than a quarter of English adults are now obese.
claimant: Metro
claim_date: 2018-04-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/are-more-people-going-hospital-obesity-related-illnesses/
title: Are more people going into hospital for obesity related illnesses? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
26% of adults were measured to be obese in a 2016 survey. This has been at roughly the same level since 2010.


claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2022-07-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/child-asylum-seekers-adults/
title: Claim two-thirds of child asylum seekers are actually adults is false - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Two thirds of asylum-seekers who arrived here since 2018 claiming to be unaccompanied children were found to be adults.

textual_rating:
This is not true, and is based on a misinterpretation of Home Office statistics. According to official figures, around 20% of people who said they were unaccompanied children while claiming asylum in the UK were later found to be adults between January 2018 and March 2022.


text: Poland has lowered its retirement age from 67 to 60.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/polish-pensions-are-not-directly-subsidised-uk/
title: Polish pensions are not directly subsidised by the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In October 2017, the retirement age in Poland was set at 65 for men and 60 for women. This reversed a 2013 policy which set about gradually raising the retirement age to 67 for both men and women.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-06-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/psa-pif-electricity-film-shorts/
title: Public information film about the dangers of electricity has not been banned - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-23T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The film is still available to view online. It was superseded by updated versions.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A 1978 public information film warning children of the dangers of playing near live wires has been banned.


text: A viral video shows England and Italian fans clashing at Wembley after the Euro 2020 final.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-07-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/england-italy-euro-wembley-fight/
title: Viral Euro 2020 video shows football fans pushing into Wembley Stadium - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is untrue. The clip was shared online before the match started, and appears to show fans inside the stadium fighting with other fans who pushed their way in. Some members of both groups are wearing England apparel.


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:
MSG is in vaccines and is linked to birth defects, developmental delays, infertility and is banned in Europe.

textual_rating:
It’s not banned in Europe. It’s used in some vaccines to stabilise them. There’s no strong evidence it causes these problems in humans.


claimant: The Observer
claim_date: 2018-07-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mental-health-there-are-fewer-beds-nurses-and-psychiatry-trainees-2010/
title: Mental health: there are fewer beds, nurses and psychiatry trainees than in 2010 - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The number of doctors in specialist psychiatry training fell from 3,187 in 2009 to 2,588 in the first quarter of this year.

textual_rating:
This 20% drop was between September 2009 and March 2018, which isn’t a fair comparison. Comparing September 2009 and 2017 there was a 15% decrease.


text: Domestic abuse rates increase by 38% when England loses football matches.
claimant: Pathway Project
claim_date: 2018-06-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/world-cup-domestic-abuse/
title: World Cup: does domestic abuse spike when England lose? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A 2014 study found the number of domestic abuse incidents reported to police in Lancashire increased by 38% when England lost a match compared to when they weren’t playing. It was 26% higher if England won or there was a draw.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-03-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/human-cages-california/
title: ‘Human cages’ in California were used by prison service - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Police in California said that what appeared to be human sized cages would be destroyed by October 2020 but in July 2021 they were still there.

textual_rating:
In response to concerns following videos of the cages being shared in 2020, local police found the cages were used by the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation but had been decommissioned and sold to a local metal recycling business and would be recycled or repurposed. We have found no evidence that the police said they would be destroyed by October 2020.


text: In-work poverty is at record levels.
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:
Correct. The proportion of individuals in poverty where at least one member of their family is in work is the highest recorded.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nebulised-hydrogen-peroxide/
title: Nebulised hydrogen peroxide shouldn’t be used to treat all respiratory illnesses - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Nebulized hydrogen peroxide “helps against ALL respiratory infections like colds/flu, sore throat, pneumonia, chest infections”.

textual_rating:
The MHRA told Full Fact that it was not aware of any evidence that shows that inhalation of hydrogen peroxide would be effective in treating respiratory disease, and has “significant concerns” that this practice is not safe.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/corbyn-picture-canal-birthday/
review_date: 2020-05-29T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This picture was not taken in 2016, it seems to have been taken on 26 May 2020 as reported.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A picture of Jeremy Corbyn with a man reproduced on the MailOnline website claiming to show him on 26 May 2020, is actually from 2016.

title:
No, the Mail didn’t use an old photo of Jeremy Corbyn to claim he wasn’t social distancing on his birthday - Full Fact


url: https://fullfact.org/europe/vote-leave-facts-leaflet-eu-law/
title: Vote Leave "facts" leaflet: EU law - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
EU law overrules UK law. This stops the British public from being able to vote out the politicians who make our laws. EU judges have already overruled British laws on issues like counter-terrorism powers, immigration, VAT, and prisoner voting.

textual_rating:
EU law does override UK law. The EU court has made rulings to that effect on some, but not all, of these issues.


text: PCR tests which use 40 or 45 cycles give false positives which amounts to medical fraud.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-01-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/kary-mullis-anyone-PCR-test/
title: PCR inventor Kary Mullis quote doesn’t prove the tests are useless - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Laboratories in the UK typically do 40 cycles to PCR test samples for the virus that causes Covid-19, and some do 45. But these rarely give false positives and do not amount to medical fraud.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-06-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/World-Cup-ball-investigated-remote-control/
title: No investigation into football used in 2022 World Cup - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The “International Court of Criminal Crimes”, Interpol and FIFA will launch an investigation into whether the football used for the 2022 World Cup was moved using a remote control.

textual_rating:
The International Criminal Courts and Interpol confirmed that no such investigation has been launched. FIFA said that the claims were untrue.


claimant: Theodora Dickinson
claim_date: 2019-03-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/church-attack/
review_date: 2019-03-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The video used as evidence for this statement shows an attack on a church in Egypt in 2013.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In response to the New Zealand mosque attacks, Islamists have burned down a Christian church in Pakistan.

title:
This video doesn't show a church in Pakistan being burned in retaliation for the New Zealand attacks - Full Fact


text: Japan has dropped Covid-19 vaccine mandates.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2022-01-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-19-vaccine-mandate-japan/
title: Japan has never enforced a Covid-19 vaccine mandate - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Japan never enforced a Covid-19 vaccine mandate. Its government websites clearly state vaccination is encouraged but optional.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-08-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/misattributed-Frida-Kahlo-quote/
title: Quote about love does not appear to come from Frida Kahlo - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Full Fact could not find any evidence that Frida Kahlo said this.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A popular online quote about love, which ends with “because if I have to ask you, I don’t want it anymore”, was said by Frida Kahlo.


text: The backlog is down by 17,000 over recent weeks.
claimant: Alex Chalk
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:
The justice secretary was referring to the number of outstanding asylum applications made before 28 June 2022—referred to by the government as the “legacy backlog”— which fell by almost 18,000 between 31 November 2022 and 28 May 2023. The number of asylum seekers being housed in hotels has increased.


text: 14 million GP appointments are missed every year.
claimant: Geoff Norcott
claim_date: 2017-01-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/total-number-missed-gp-appointments/
title: The total number of missed GP appointments - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s one estimate, based on a survey of 500 GPs in 2015. No-one routinely collects information about the total number of missed GP appointments in England.


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
text:
65,000 deaths tested positive for coronavirus within 30 days of their death, so they could have died of a heart attack or a stroke or cancer, but it will go down as a Covid death.

textual_rating:
Some deaths unrelated to Covid-19 may happen within 28 days of a positive test but this makes very little difference to the figures. Up to the week ending 15 January, 85,321 deaths were registered in England and Wales with Covid-19 recorded as the underlying cause of death by a medical professional.


claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/500-million-nhs-drug-prices/
review_date: 2019-11-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK could pay £500 million more per week for drugs following a post-Brexit trade deal with the USA.

title:
Paying £500 million more a week for drugs post-Brexit is based on a fairly extreme scenario - Full Fact

textual_rating:
It’s certainly possible that drug prices could increase following a trade deal as this fits with US priorities from past negotiations. But the £500 million figure is a rough calculation based on a scenario that the Nuffield Trust has said is fairly extreme.


text: A peer-reviewed research paper says that the new coronavirus has been artificially engineered.
claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2020-06-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/richard-dearlove-coronavirus-claims/
review_date: 2020-06-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
A Norwegian-British research paper doesn’t claim the virus causing Covid-19 was man-made - Full Fact

textual_rating:
A Norwegian virologist has made claims about the non-natural origins of the new coronavirus. But this claim is not in a new peer-reviewed paper he co-authored. The scientific community widely agrees that the virus was not artificially engineered.


claimant: The Daily Expose
claim_date: 2021-07-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/vaccination-miscarriage-CDC-study-inaccurate/
title: Study did not show 82% of pregnancies end in miscarriage after Covid vaccination - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A study on the effects of Covid vaccines during pregnancy shows 82% of respondents miscarried, contrary to what its authors claimed.

textual_rating:
This claim is misleading and based on an incorrect calculation. The study it is based on found the rates of miscarriage were no different to those before Covid-19, although it concedes that further research is needed.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/gun-granny-ava-estelle-melbourne/
title: Australian grandmother did not shoot two rapists - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-31T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The story is false and first appeared in a newspaper that carries fictional news reports
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An 81-year-old grandmother in Australia tracked down and shot off the testicles of two men who raped her granddaughter


text: People convicted for carrying a blade are spending longer in prison.
claimant: Dominic Raab
claim_date: 2018-05-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/are-more-people-being-prosecuted-carrying-knives/
title: Are more people being prosecuted for carrying knives? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. The average custodial sentence for a knife or offensive weapon possession offence increased by 2.2 months between 2008 and 2017.


text: The National Audit Office has said that 420,000 new school places are needed.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-03-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/are-there-enough-school-places-being-created/
title: Are there enough school places being created? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. 420,000 places will be needed in primary and secondary schools between 2016 and 2021, according to the National Audit Office.


text: Vaccine risks for children outweigh benefits.
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 JCVI has said that the benefits from vaccination for healthy 12 to 15-year-olds are marginally greater than the potential known harms.


text: The chances of catching Covid-19 are 44 million to one.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-09-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-cancer-compared/
title: This viral post understates the risk of Covid-19 infection - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is a misreading of the claim that, at the end of August, 44 people per million were catching Covid-19 each day in England. 

This has slightly increased since then.


text: The vaccines only have temporary approval by the MHRA.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-05-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/MHRA-yellow-card-poster/
title: Poster about Yellow Card scheme is not real - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is essentially correct. The Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines have received temporary authorisations, while the Moderna and Janssen vaccines have received temporary licenses which offer the possibility of being converted into permanent licenses in future.


text: People in work are using food banks.
claimant: Richard Coles
claim_date: 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/are-people-work-using-food-banks/
title: Are people in work using food banks? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-10-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. Around 15% of households surveyed when using Trussell Trust foodbanks between October and December 2016 included at least one person with some work or income from employment, according to a recent academic study. We don’t know about the people using food banks not run by the Trussell Trust.


text: North Wales doesn’t get its fair share of infrastructure spending compared to the rest of the UK.
claimant: John Mann
claim_date: 2018-06-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/infrastructure-spending-does-north-wales-get-its-fair-share/
title: Infrastructure spending: does North Wales get its fair share? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s not possible to say from available data. Specifying who benefits from infrastructure projects is often neither fair nor possible to do.


claimant: Sean Ward
claim_date: 2022-12-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/flu-vaccines-strep-A-timings/
title: Instagram post wrongly links nasal flu vaccines to strep A outbreak - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Nasal flu vaccines being rolled out at the same time as strep A infections have risen means there is a link.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence to suggest the nasal flu vaccine causes strep A, and previous years’ vaccination programmes have run over the same period without outbreaks occurring.


text: Home tests for the new coronavirus will be available in days.
claimant: Sharon Peacock
claim_date: 2020-03-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-home-tests/
title: Home Covid-19 tests will not be readily available to the public by the end of March - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This was said by the director of the national infection service at Public Health England. However, medical experts and politicians have since said the new tests will not be ready so soon.


text: Before the pandemic the rate of myocarditis in children was four per million.
claimant: twitter user
claim_date: 2023-02-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/instagram-myocarditis-children/
title: Instagram post's claims about myocarditis in children not supported by official data - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure seems to come from a Finnish study that actually reported a rate of about 19.5 hospital cases of myocarditis per million. If this is accurate, the rate including all cases would be higher.


claimant: The Liberal Democrats
claim_date: 2019-10-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/lib-dems-somerset-poll/
title: You need to read the small print on this Lib Dem voting intention graph - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Headline vote intention figures from a poll of North East Somerset residents have the Lib Dems at 28%, in second place behind the Conservatives on 44%. Labour were third on 14%.


text: New documents reveal that Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine has just 12% efficacy.
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:
This appears to be based on a misinterpretation of a document showing results from a clinical trial first published in 2020. The clinical trial showed the vaccine’s efficacy rate was 95% from seven days after the second dose, although the latest data relating to the Omicron variant does show lower efficacy which reduces significantly over time.


text: The number of deaths in police custody is at the highest level in five years.
claimant: Vikram Dodd
claim_date: 2015-07-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/how-many-deaths-occur-police-custody/
title: How many deaths occur in police custody? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-07-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There were 17 deaths in 2014/15, according to official figures; the highest in four years, rather than five.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-11-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Can-AirPod-radiation-cause-brain-tumours/
title: No evidence radiation from AirPods is causing brain tumours - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
AirPods are directing radiation and Bluetooth signals directly into the brain, and you shouldn’t wear them if you don’t want a brain tumour.

textual_rating:
AirPods, as well as other mobile and wireless devices, emit low-level radiation. But there’s no evidence that using them is causing people to develop brain tumours or that radiation is being “directed” into the brain.


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
text:
If an asylum seeker is refused asylum, they get somewhere to live and £35.39 per person on a payment card.

textual_rating:
Correct, if they are homeless, unable to buy food and there’s a reason they can’t leave the UK yet. They can only get the payment card if they take the offer of somewhere to live.


text: Last year the UK took in 558,000 people from developed countries alone.
claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/how-many-migrants-are-coming-europe-and-uk/
title: How many migrants are coming to Europe and the UK? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-09-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
558,000 people is the total number of foreign nationals that moved to the UK in 2014, not just asylum seekers, and not just people from developed countries.


text: NHS 111 has directed triple the number of people to GPs and A&E in 2014 compared to 2013.
claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2014-02-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/factcheck-nhs-111-isnt-referring-triple-number-patients-gps-and-es/
title: Factcheck: NHS 111 isn't referring triple the number of patients to GPs and A&Es - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Referrals have doubled in that time, but so have calls. That's partly due to the service being rolled out fully in 2013.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/jo-johnson-dyson/
title: The PM’s brother did not join Dyson days after tax texts - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Jo Johnson became a director at Dyson a week after his brother Boris Johnson said in a series of texts that he would fix a tax issue that might have affected the company’s staff.

textual_rating:
Jo Johnson became a director of the Dyson Institute for Engineering and Technology which is not the same as the Dyson engineering company itself, on 18 February, before his brother’s text exchange.


text: More than a third of Covid-19 deaths had diabetes.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2020-05-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/diabetes-covid-19-deaths-england/
title: Daily Express diabetes and coronavirus deaths headline is misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is incorrect. NHS data shows that of Covid-19 patients who died in hospital in England just over a quarter had diabetes.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2021-04-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/football-klopp-mourinho-ferguson-fake-quotes/
title: Fake football quotes go viral - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Jose Mourinho was sacked as manager of Tottenham Hotspur after refusing to take training due to the European Super League announcement.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence he was sacked for this reason. This was claimed by a Twitter user who’s made false claims in the past.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-06-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/police-advice-smash-car-window-dog/
title: Police don’t advise smashing car windows to rescue dogs in hot weather - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Police have said that if you see a dog locked in a car in hot temperatures you should take pictures, call police, wait five minutes and break the car window. By doing so, you will not be charged with criminal damage and will provide police with evidence to take the dog owners to court.

textual_rating:
This is not police advice. The National Police Chief’s Council says people should call 999 and ask for police if a dog is showing signs of distress or heat stroke. People who break a car window could be charged with criminal damage.


claimant: Bernard Jenkin
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 has never said the government had impact assessments of the effect Brexit on different parts of the economy.

textual_rating:
Although David Davis has never directly said “impact assessments”, as far as we can tell, he did confirm the existence of 57 impact assessments to a select committee.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2016-11-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/eu-staff-great-ormond-street-hospital/
title: EU staff at Great Ormond Street hospital - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Nearly a quarter of all researchers and a quarter of all clinicians at Great Ormond Street hospital are from other EU countries.

textual_rating:
23% of doctors and 17% of all doctors and nurses at Great Ormond Street reported they were from the EU in 2015. We’re still trying to track down the figures on researchers.


text: 30,000 British pensioners freeze to death each year.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Excess-winter-deaths-UK/
title: There were 25,260 excess winter deaths across all ages in Great Britain last year - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
About 25,260 excess deaths occurred in GB over winter 2018/19—a lower number than in recent years—and most were in people of pension age. Cold weather is a major contributor to these deaths, but there are a number of causes.


text: 95% of new workers are foreigners.
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2016-11-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/foreigners-working-uk/
title: Foreigners working in the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. These employment figures don’t tell us the number of new workers, only the overall change in employment. The claim also defines “foreigners” as all people born outside the UK, including those who are UK citizens. About 450,000 more people in the UK were employed in July-September 2016 than had been the year before, and roughly half of the increase was due to an increase in the number of non-British citizens.


text: Workers coming to the UK on very low salaries can claim over £10,000 in benefits.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/can-working-immigrants-claim-over-10000-benefits/
title: Can working immigrants claim over £10,000 in benefits? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-10-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It is possible for low-paid workers to claim this much in benefits currently. Migrants from the EU who work here have the same right to benefits as UK nationals, which may be difficult to change under EU law.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-03-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-19-boris-johnson-hospital-dorset-eye/
title: False claims that Boris Johnson did not have Covid-19 circulate on social media again - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is incorrect. It is based on an invented article labelled as “satire”.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
When Boris Johnson was admitted with Covid-19 all staff at St Thomas’ Hospital were required to sign the Official Secrets Act. Two doctors who disagreed with his diagnosis refused, and were sent home 'on leave', and one said they did not believe he had Covid-19.


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
textual_rating: Incorrect. There is no such vote that we are aware of.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Jeremy Corbyn has voted against the installation of sprinkler systems in tower blocks and high-rise buildings.


claimant: Diane Abbott
claim_date: 2023-01-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/diane-abbott-clarkson-donelan/
title: Diane Abbott misquotes statement from Michelle Donelan - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Culture secretary Michelle Donelan said Jeremy Clarkson was right to say Meghan Markle should be stripped naked and pelted with excrement.

textual_rating:
This is not true. Ms Donelan was defending Mr Clarkson’s right to freedom of speech, not agreeing with what he said.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/bell-tavistock-covid-vaccine-children/
title: Viral video makes incorrect claims about teenagers and vaccine consent - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The case of Bell v Tavistock means it’s illegal to give teenagers the Covid vaccination without parental consent or a court order.

textual_rating:
Not true. The case of Bell v Tavistock is only about treating children with gender dysphoria and doesn't change the law about when teenagers can give informed consent to medical treatment generally.


text: Crime is starting to rise.
claimant: Andy Burnham, Shadow Home Secretary
claim_date: 2015-09-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/crime-now-starting-rise/
title: Is crime now starting to rise? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-10-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Crime is falling in England and Wales according to the Crime Survey. Police are recording more violent and sexual offences but these may not reflect genuine rises in the crimes.


claimant: Andrew Brigden
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:
A study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association showed that one in 500 children under five years of age who received a Pfizer Covid vaccine were hospitalised with a vaccine injury, and one in 200 had symptoms ongoing for weeks or months afterwards.”

textual_rating:
It is misleading to call these “vaccine injuries”. The study in question was looking at events that occurred after vaccination, but were not necessarily related to or caused by the vaccine.


text: An Instagram post shows a mine worker with 0% body fat.
claimant: instagram user
claim_date: 2023-01-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mine-worker-zero-body-fat/
title: Photo does not show mine worker with zero body fat - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. The man pictured is a fitness model, not a mine worker, who does not claim to have 0% body fat.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/un-soldiers-iraq-afghanistan-vaccine-camps/
title: UN soldiers are not forcing the unvaccinated into camps - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-10T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Some British troops have been operating in Ukraine since the invasion, but not all of them.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
These UN soldiers are being enlisted because our troops are in Ukraine and couldn’t be trusted to do this.


text: Channel 4 is in receipt of taxpayers’ money.
claimant: Nadine Dorries
claim_date: 2021-11-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/nadine-dorries-channel-4/
title: Misleading for Nadine Dorries to say Channel 4 is ‘in receipt of taxpayers’ money’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true in the usual meaning of that phrase. Channel 4 funds itself with commercial operations. Its debt appears on public accounts, but it also pays tax.


text: The £1,400 pay award means the starting salary of a nurse is about £31,000.
claimant: Nadhim Zahawi
claim_date: 2022-12-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Zahawi-nurses-salary-figure/
title: Nadhim Zahawi includes extra earnings in figure for nurse ‘starting salary’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The £31,000 figure is an estimate including both basic pay and additional earnings like overtime, unsocial hours pay and supplements for those in high cost areas. The basic pay for a newly qualified nurse, not including extra earnings, is £27,055.


text: There is a live criminal investigation into the Covid-19 vaccine programme.
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:
There isn’t. A crime reference number was created after campaigners visited a London police station in December 2021. The Metropolitan Police has confirmed there is no investigation.


text: There is only a 0.26% chance of catching Covid-19.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-09-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-asteroid/
title: The asteroid which might enter Earth’s atmosphere on 2 November will not “hit” Earth - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The US CDC published figures suggesting the chance of dying from Covid-19 after being infected was 0.26% and has since updated these figures. The chance of catching Covid-19 is much higher than that in many countries, including the UK.


text: The government will spend half a trillion pounds on the NHS this parliament.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-02-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/half-trillion-nhs/
title: The half-a-trillion NHS - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, but adding up five years’ worth of spending into one big figure isn’t particularly meaningful.


text: Four in ten fathers will not see their children this Father’s Day.
claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2019-06-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/fathers-day/
title: Did four in ten dads not see their children this Father’s Day? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. 37% of fathers who responded to a recent survey said that either they, or someone they knew, had ever experienced not seeing their children on Father's Day.


text: Average mortgage payments will be going up by £2,900 this year.
claimant: Rachel Reeves
claim_date: 2023-06-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-2900-mortgage-penalty/
review_date: 2023-06-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Labour’s £2,900 ‘mortgage penalty’ figure refers to predicted rise for those remortgaging in 2024 - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This figure appears to be based on the Resolution Foundation’s estimate of the average increase for households whose fixed-rate mortgage expires in 2024. It’s not an “average” across all mortgages or an estimate for “this year”. The think tank estimates those whose fixed-rate deals expire this year face an average £2,800 increase—but again, this isn’t an average across all mortgages, and we’ve not seen any reliable estimate for that.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/impala-kill-maternal-sacrifice/
title: Viral impala picture is not a maternal sacrifice - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Picture of a gazelle looking calm while being killed shows a mother sacrificing herself to allow her children to get away. Taking the photo led the photographer to fall into a depression.

textual_rating:
This is an image of an impala. The photographer says this is “a completely ridiculous fake story” and the image actually shows cheetah young practicing their hunting.


claimant: Jess Phillips
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
text:
The biggest increase in the number of people accessing the modern slavery referral system in the last 10 years has been from the huge increase in British adults and children trafficked for sex and crime within Britain.

textual_rating:
This depends on how you measure the increase. UK nationals accounted for 25% of modern slavery referrals in 2022, compared to just 3% in 2012—though most of the increase over the last 10 years has been non-UK nationals. We’ve not seen data that breaks down referrals by both nationality and location of exploitation.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-05-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-boy-brandon-smith-doncaster-whaley-bridge-gateshead/
title: Hoax posts about missing boy ‘Brandon Smith’ shared across England - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An autistic boy named Brandon Smith is missing with his dog Hank in Doncaster, Whaley Bridge and Gateshead.

textual_rating:
These posts are hoaxes. Police in all three areas have confirmed they are not aware of any missing persons appeals matching this description.


text: A picture shows private jets in a Scottish airport for COP26.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/picture-airport-cop26/
title: Picture of parked up private jets isn’t from COP26 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The picture first appeared online in 2013 and seems to have been taken of jets parked in a New Orleans airport when the Super Bowl was held there.


text: Research found selenium led to a “dramatic reduction” in prostate and lung cancer.
claimant: Peter Glidden
claim_date: 2023-07-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/selenium-cancer-lung-prostate/
title: Selenium not shown to cause ‘dramatic reduction’ in certain cancers - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Low quality evidence linking selenium to decreased risk of cancers such as prostate and lung has not been borne out in large reviews of randomised controlled trials.


text: Covid-19 has never been isolated in a laboratory. It has never been proven to exist.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-06-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/car-multiclaim-video/
title: Video in a car shares misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Covid-19 is the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This virus has been isolated in laboratories many times.


claimant: 2020 News
claim_date: 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/pfizer-vaccine-peg-ade/
title: Claims about the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine ingredients lack evidence - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-12-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The formation of “non-neutralizing antibodies” can lead to an exaggerated immune reaction, especially when the person is confronted with the real, “wild” virus after vaccination. This so-called antibody-dependent amplification, ADE, has long been known from experiments with corona vaccines in cats.

textual_rating:
There’s no evidence antibody-dependent amplification is an issue in humans with Covid-19, and the use of plasma therapy suggests that it is not.


text: Irish GDP per head was lower than the UK before they cut corporation tax, and it’s now 50% higher.
claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2019-06-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/would-corporation-tax-cut-pay-itself/
title: Would a corporation tax cut more than pay for itself, as Jeremy Hunt suggests? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. We’ve seen no measures of GDP per head which placed Ireland below the UK before they cut corporation tax in 2015, and some measures show the difference is now is more than 50%.


claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2015-12-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/how-much-are-charities-spending-good-works/
title: How much are charities spending on good works? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Some charities are spending less than half of the money raised by members of the public on good works.

textual_rating:
Looking at the ratio of charitable spending on total income doesn't tell us about how well-run a charity is. Charities sometimes have to spend money to make money, and may choose not to spend all of their income at once.


text: The Conservatives have pushed millions of people into poverty after 12 years in government.
claimant: Ian Blackford
claim_date: 2022-06-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/ian-blackford-poverty-pmqs/
title: The number of people in poverty has remained relatively stable since 2010 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The SNP says this claim refers to the total number in poverty now, not how the figures have changed. The most recent Government stats show in 2020/21 between 8.8 million and 13.4 million people lived in low income households, depending on the metric used. These numbers have remained relatively stable since 2010, with some measures showing a drop.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-09-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/poppies-not-selling-false-2020/
review_date: 2020-09-15T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is not true.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Royal British Legion will not be selling poppies in certain areas to avoid upsetting “minorities”.

title:
Claims the Royal British Legion won’t sell poppies to avoid upsetting ‘minorities’ are false - Full Fact


text: Poorer children are less likely to get into grammar schools.
claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2016-09-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/poorer-children-are-less-likely-go-grammar-schools/
title: Poorer children are less likely to go to grammar schools - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Poorer children are less likely to go to grammar schools even if they are high achievers. It’s not certain if this is because poorer children are less likely to apply, or less likely to get in, or a bit of both.


text: The EU referendum outcome is "on a knife edge".
claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2015-12-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-referendum-outcome-knife-edge/
title: Is the EU referendum outcome "on a knife edge"? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-12-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is uncertain. While two polls have shown a narrow gap between the 'remain' and 'leave' camps, others have shown significant gaps between the two. Different methods give different results, with telephone polls showing 'remain' with a strong lead and online polls showing a more narrow gap.


claimant: Ben Wallace
claim_date: 2016-10-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/far-right-extremism-growing-problem/
title: Far right extremism: a growing problem? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There has been an increase in far-right referrals under the Prevent strategy and in some areas of the country these are outnumbering other referrals.

textual_rating:
The Home Office told us that "in some areas of the country, far right referrals under the strategy account for more than other types", but the data isn't routinely published so we don't know the exact figures. Across the UK the number of far right referrals has increased, but it is lower as a proportion of all referrals.


text: The junior doctors' strike will put 200 lives at risk.
claimant: Dr Jonathan Stanley
claim_date: 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/no-evidence-junior-doctors-strike-will-put-200-lives-risk/
title: No evidence that junior doctors' strike will put 200 lives at risk - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-01-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This number is unsubstantiated, and we have questions about the assumption it appears to be based on.


text: A picture shows a person installing 5G wearing a hazmat radiation suit.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/5G-hazmat-suit/
title: This picture doesn’t show someone wearing a hazmat suit to install 5G - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The person was probably not installing 5G, but wearing protective clothing to clean a 4G mobile phone tower.


text: 19 million people in the UK have already been infected with the new coronavirus.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/19m-coronavirus-manchester/
title: It is not clear that 19 million people have already had the new coronavirus - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is according to a new piece of statistical research, but this research has been challenged by other scientists and is highly uncertain. Other early estimates have estimated the prevalence to be lower, but it’s impossible to tell how accurate these will turn out to be.


claimant: Daily Telegraph
claim_date: 2021-10-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/french-pm-eu-president-punishment-letter/
title: Did the French PM really ask for the EU to ‘punish’ the UK over Brexit? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The French Prime Minister wrote to the President of the European Commission asking the EU to punish the UK for Brexit.

textual_rating:
The letter did not use the word “punish”. But it did call on the EU to take action against the UK with respect to the latest fishing row, which some could interpret as punishment for Brexit.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-06-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/japan-olympic-black-lives-matter/
title: Japan hasn’t banned Olympic athletes from taking the knee - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Japan has banned Black Lives Matter apparel and demonstrations such as taking the knee or raising a fist.

textual_rating:
It is true that political, religious and racial protests are banned at Olympic sites and venues, but this applies to all such demonstrations, not just BLM. Japan did not make this decision—the rule has been in place for decades and is implemented by the International Olympic Committee.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/eu-election-results-leave-and-remain/
title: What do the EU election results tell us about public support for leave and remain? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
58% of votes cast in the recent EU parliamentary elections were votes to leave, and 41.5% were votes to remain.

textual_rating:
This assumes that all Labour voters supported leave, which is far from clear. It’s also not the case that all people voted for a party based on their Brexit policy.


text: House building is at its lowest rate since the Second World War.
claimant: Keir Starmer
claim_date: 2023-06-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/house-building-levels-PMQs/
title: Conservative and Labour claims on house building fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not what any of the different house building metrics currently show—the number of net additional dwellings, and new homes started and completed, are higher than a decade ago. However one industry projection suggests house building may hit a post-war low in the next few years.


text: Tax evasion and tax avoidance costs the government £34 billion a year.
claimant: Buzzfeed
claim_date: 2016-09-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/tax-avoidance-evasion-uk/
title: Tax: evasion and avoidance in the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is wrong, according to the estimates it's using. HMRC estimates that £2.7 billion was lost through tax avoidance and £4.4 billion through tax evasion in 2013/14. £34 billion is the total value of tax that goes uncollected.


text: The number of people unhappy with the NHS is at the highest level for 30 years.
claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2016-02-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/level-dissatisfaction-nhs-not-highest-record/
title: The level of dissatisfaction with the NHS is not the highest on record - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-02-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The rise in dissatisfaction with the NHS over the past year is the largest annual increase in 30 years. The level of dissatisfaction is now roughly where it was between 2011 and 2013. It has previously been much higher.


text: The UK’s test and trace system has cost £12 billion.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2020-10-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ireland-uk-tracing-app/
title: This comparison of the cost of the Irish and UK contact tracing systems is misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
£12 billion has been provided for the test and trace programme in England by the UK government. The cost of the app in England and Wales is estimated to be £35 million for development and first-year running costs.


text: Italy has found that Covid-19 is actually disseminated intravascular coagulation (thrombosis).
claimant: Blog post
claim_date: 2020-06-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/italy-covid-5g/
title: Facebook post about Italy, coronavirus and 5G is almost all false - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This disease has been observed in Covid-19 patients but it’s not correct that patients have that and not Covid-19.


text: Ursula von der Leyen decides on EU laws, which national leaders and MEPs can’t do.
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:
She is the nominee to become President of the European Commission, which proposes new EU laws. But elected politicians—MEPs in the European Parliament and government ministers from all EU member states—get to review, amend and approve EU laws.


text: 51% think the Chequers deal is not good for Britain.
claimant: Leave.EU
claim_date: 2018-07-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/these-poll-figures-are-leave-voters-not-most-nation/
title: These poll figures are for leave voters - not "most of the nation" - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That's of adults in Great Britain voting 'Leave' in the 2016 referendum, according to one survey. Among all adults in Great Britain, it's 42%.


text: BBC radio announced the death of Prince Philip in the middle of a dance track.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-06-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/prince-philip-death-radio-1-dance/
title: Announcement of Prince Philip’s death on BBC is edited - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It is true that BBC Radio 1 Dance cut a song short to play the national anthem, but the video on social media has been edited.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/dial-55-no-police-dispatch/
title: The police won’t always be dispatched if you dial 55 during a 999 call - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If you need the police in a situation where you can’t speak, ring 999 and when they answer press 55. This tells them that you need help and they will dispatch police to you.

textual_rating:
If you can’t talk during a 999 call, dialling 55 should route your call to the police. But they won’t necessarily send officers and they can’t always trace calls to an exact address.


text: Criminals are sent to jail only after committing 55 offences.
claimant: i news
claim_date: 2020-02-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/offences-pre-prison-sentence/
title: Context is needed in this article about offences committed prior to prison sentences - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is misleading. In prison sentences of less than six months, the average number of previous offences was 60 for females and 57 for males. This includes offences that have previously resulted in a prison sentence and the figures may count the same people more than once.


claimant: Zarah Sultana
claim_date: 2023-01-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/zarah-sultana-jeff-bezos-amazon-90000/
title: Jeff Bezos couldn’t give every Amazon worker £90,000 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Jeff Bezos could give every Amazon worker in the world a £90,000 bonus and he would still be as rich as he was at the start of the pandemic.

textual_rating:
This is not true. It would cost about $172 billion to give £90,000 to all 1.54 million Amazon workers. Mr Bezos’s total wealth is reportedly about $120 billion, according to one recent estimate.


text: The NHS is getting an extra £34 billion, that’s the biggest increase in modern memory.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2019-11-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/nhs-spending-biggest-boost/
review_date: 2019-11-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
The £20.5 billion NHS England spending increase is the largest five year increase since the mid-2000s - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The £34 billion is a spending increase in real terms of £20.5 billion between 2018/19 and 2023/24. The last time spending increased by at least that amount was between 2004/05 and 2009/10.


text: Pictures of parked private jets are from the Davos 2022 climate change conference.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-05-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/davos-2022-private-jet/
title: Private jet pictures aren’t from Davos ‘climate change conference’ this year - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Both pictures are several years old, though one is from Davos in 2019. The World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos is not specifically a climate change conference.


text: A no deal Brexit means no more uncontrolled immigration.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/what-does-wto-rules-brexit-look/
title: What does a “WTO rules” Brexit look like? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK already controls immigration from outside the EU. If we left with no deal, the UK would have more control over immigration from the EU—as we would not have to follow EU rules on freedom of movement.


claimant: Alex Berenson
claim_date: 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/joe-rogan-alex-berenson-covid-vaccines-phe/
title: The Joe Rogan podcast misused English Covid-19 data - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Older people are more likely to become ill with Covid-19 if they are vaccinated than if they are not.

textual_rating:
This is not true. It is based on a misreading of PHE data, which cannot be used to measure the effects of Covid-19 vaccines.


text: A legal judgment over Article 50 doesn’t stop us from leaving the EU.
claimant: Lisa Nandy
claim_date: 2016-11-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/what-does-high-courts-article-50-ruling-mean-brexit/
title: What does the High Court’s Article 50 ruling mean for Brexit? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. The judges didn’t, and couldn’t, block Brexit. But they said that the government can’t leave the EU without Parliament passing a law.


text: The public won’t be able to claim compensation if unlicensed vaccines damage our health.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-09-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/government-consultation-covid-vaccine-unlicensed/
title: Unlicensed vaccines are not untested - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
They will in some cases. If the product doesn’t meet safety standards or is defective, then the manufacturer is liable. 
The consultation aside, it’s already true that if the government recommends the roll-out of an unlicensed product, manufacturers can’t usually be sued in civil court for the consequences.


text: Around 90,000 unaccompanied children claimed asylum in Europe in 2015.
claimant: Lord Dubs
claim_date: 2016-04-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/unaccompanied-refugee-children-europe/
title: Unaccompanied refugee children in Europe - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Official figures show this. There's some uncertainty over the age of some applicants, where the authorities have to assess what age they think a person is.


text: There is no tsunami, no cliff edge and no explosion in suicide figures.
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:
We cannot be sure about that from these early figures, as they only cover approximately one sixth of England.


text: Boris Johnson announced an extra £14.4 billion in funding for schools over three years.
claimant: Department for Education
claim_date: 2020-06-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/school-funding-figures-context/
title: The government’s education funding figures need context - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
£14.4 billion is the cumulative amount schools in England will receive over three years. By the third year (2022/23), school funding will be £7.1 billion higher than it was in 2019/20, or £4.3 billion once inflation is accounted for.


text: A child named Tyler Rashid has gone missing in Guildford.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-11-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-child-tyler-rashid/
title: Copycat posts about ‘missing’ boy shared widely on Facebook - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This post is almost identical to fake appeals we have recently checked, though the name has been very slightly changed. The boy pictured in the post has a different name and went missing in Newport, Wales in June, but was found safe and well.


text: A majority of voters say violence against MPs is “worth it” to get their way in Brexit.
claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2019-10-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/violence-against-MPs-survey-flawed/
title: Poll about support for violence against MPs is flawed - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. A majority said the “risk of violence” is “a price worth paying”. There’s a big distinction between the two, and survey it’s based on suffers from a number of flaws.


text: The emergency alert test is an “activation signal” to activate the “pathogen in the shot”.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-04-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/emergency-alert-not-activate-pathogen-vaccine/
title: Emergency alert test is not an ‘activation signal’ for a vaccine ‘pathogen’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
On Sunday 23 April, the emergency alert test will be broadcast by cell towers to any connected phones or tablets on 4G and 5G networks. There is no conceivable way by which this can interact with pathogens or vaccines, including the Covid-19 vaccines.


text: Irish people were forced into slavery in British Colonies for hundreds of years.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-06-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Irish-Slaves/
title: The “Irish slave” myth has been widely discredited - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is incorrect. Claiming the Irish experience of indentured servitude was chattel slavery is a misrepresentation of history.


text: Labour did not triple tuition fees.
claimant: Angela Rayner
claim_date: 2019-12-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/angela-rayner-wrong-tuition-fees/
title: Angela Rayner is wrong on tuition fees - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-12-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Labour tripled fees from £1,000 per year to £3,000 per year in 2006 in England and Northern Ireland and in Wales the following year.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-12-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-passport-contract/
review_date: 2020-12-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Everyone is going to be issued a digital health or vaccine passport. If you allow them to vaccinate you and test you regularly, you will be given more personal freedoms.

title:
The government has awarded a contract to develop technology that proves you’ve recently had a negative Covid-19 test - Full Fact

textual_rating:
A government contract has been awarded to create a Covid-19 negative test result certification app. This is not a vaccine passport.


text: Record numbers of teachers are quitting the profession, more than entered the profession.
claimant: Shadow Education Secretary Lucy Powell
claim_date: 2015-12-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/are-more-teachers-quitting-profession-entering-it/
title: Are more teachers quitting the profession than entering it? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Slightly more people left teaching roles in state-funded schools in 2014 than entered them. Those that left include over one in four who retired, so not all of these people are "quitting" teaching in favour of a different job. The numbers of teachers leaving and entering state-funded schools in England in 2014 were the highest since 2011 (when records began).


text: Almost half of the doctors trained in the UK later move to Australia or New Zealand.
claimant: Nadine Dorries
claim_date: 2023-06-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nadine-dorries-doctor-training-cost-australia-new-zealand/
title: It does not cost the public £500,000 to train a doctor - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This seems unlikely to be true. About 19% of UK-trained doctors who left the register or gave up their licence last year said they were doing so to move abroad.


text: Every four minutes a young person in England is diagnosed with gonorrhoea or chlamydia.
claimant: Jenni Murray
claim_date: 2018-10-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/young-person-diagnosed-sti-england-every-four-minutes/
title: Is a young person diagnosed with an STI in England every four minutes? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-11-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In 2017, there were 144,000 diagnoses for those aged 15-24 in England or the equivalent of one every four minutes. That’s not the same as the number of people diagnosed, someone might get diagnosed more than once, or with several STIs.


text: A million more pupils are in good or outstanding schools in England than five years ago.
claimant: Nicky Morgan, Education Secretary
claim_date: 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2015-10-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/education/million-more-pupils-good-or-outstanding-schools-not-just-simple-story-school-improvement/

title:
A million more pupils in good or outstanding schools? Not just a simple story of school improvement - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Correct. This progress is partly due to Ofsted's changing inspection practice - which refined what was expected of schools and placed a greater emphasis on inspecting schools which fell below this expectation.


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
text:
The police have the evidence and authority under the Criminal Law Act 1967 to confiscate Covid-19 vaccines.

textual_rating:
Police have some powers to close public premises but there is almost no likelihood they would close down a Covid-19 vaccine facility, particularly if there is no evidence those facilities are involved in the perpetration of crime.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/dominic-cummings-bullingdon-club/
title: Dominic Cummings is not in this picture of the Bullingdon Club - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is not true. The man identified as Mr Cummings in the photograph is called Harry Eastwood.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Dominic Cummings appears in a photograph of the Bullingdon Club alongside Boris Johnson and David Cameron.


text: Covid vaccines contain aborted babies.
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
title:
A post about coronavirus vaccines gets facts about their safety, ingredients, and legality wrong - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Human-derived cells have been used in the manufacture of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, but they are filtered out of the final product. They are replicas of a cell derived from a foetus in the 1970s. They are not used in the manufacture of other vaccines, such as Pfizer’s.


text: The estimated cost of benefit fraud is £2.3 billion a year.
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:
This was the estimate for benefit fraud during the 2018/19 financial year, but the amount has increased in recent years.


text: The average age of death from Covid-19 is 82.5.
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
url:
https://fullfact.org/health/number-of-death-certificates-with-only-covid-19-is-a-bad-estimate-of-the-death-toll/

textual_rating:
Broadly correct. The median average age of deaths from Covid-19 in England and Wales is 82, and the mean age is 79.4.


claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2022-10-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mrna-vaccines-virus/
title: The mRNA vaccines don’t show Covid-19 ‘doesn’t exist’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The mRNA vaccines are disguised as regular vaccines but they don’t hold a portion of a virus because SARS-CoV-2 doesn’t exist, and the vaccines actually destroy your immune system.

textual_rating:
The mRNA vaccines do work differently to other vaccines. But that doesn’t mean the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 doesn’t exist as many scientists have sequenced its genetic material, we can test people for infection, and the disease has killed people. There’s no evidence these vaccines weaken or destroy immune systems.


text: The Covid-19 vaccines have killed two people for every one life saved.
claimant: Francis Boulle
claim_date: 2021-09-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/FDA-covid-claim/
title: The FDA did not say Covid-19 vaccines are causing more heart attacks - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A major study has found no link between receiving two Covid-19 vaccinations and the number of deaths reported after vaccination in the US. Estimates suggest the vaccines averted over 1 million Covid-19 deaths in America and 157,000 in England by November 2021.


text: Blue surgical masks are sprayed with PTFE, which is harmful to humans.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-10-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/ptfe-masks-symptoms/
title: PTFE in masks does not pose a health risk, unless you get it very hot - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Some masks contain PTFE, but ordinary surgical masks are often made from other materials. PTFE is not generally harmful to humans.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-06-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/student-nurses-covid/
title: This is what has happened with student nurses who volunteered to work for the NHS early - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Health Education England have said they can no longer afford to honour this agreement and many will be pulled out of full time paid work early.

textual_rating:
Health Education England has said that student nurses who volunteered to work will be paid until 31 July, or until September if they haven’t yet completed the hours they need to qualify as nurses.


text: There are 13,100 more nurses on our wards.
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:
We don’t have figures specifically for the numbers of nurses working on our wards. This figure refers to the increase in the number of nurses working in acute, elderly and general wards for adults. It misses out nurses who work in other types of wards – for example mental health, or those who work in the private sector, but are commissioned to work for the NHS.


text: Raw milk cures lactose intolerance.
claimant: HUNGRY HIJABI
claim_date: 2023-06-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/raw-milk-lactose-intolerance/
title: Raw milk won’t cure lactose intolerance, but it might make you ill - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t true. Raw unpasteurised milk still contains lactose, and doesn’t contain any of the enzymes needed to break it down, so people who have issues digesting milk shouldn’t expect it to fix these. Authorities also advise against consuming raw milk due to the risk of harmful bacteria.


claimant: Anna Soubry
claim_date: 2019-05-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/did-one-third-support-no-deal-brexit/
title: Did one third of voters support a no deal Brexit at the EU elections? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
12% of the electorate voted for no deal in the 2019 EU parliamentary elections, not one third of the country.

textual_rating:
One third of votes cast were for parties that support a no deal Brexit. But as turnout was 37%, this amounts to 13% of eligible voters voting for a party that supports no deal. Not all people who voted for no deal-supporting parties necessarily prefer a no deal Brexit themselves, though.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-04-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ferrero-chocolate-eggs-recall/
title: Pictures of chocolate eggs don’t show ‘salmonella and maggots’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Pictures of some damaged Ferrero chocolate eggs show those that are affected by a recent product recall related to salmonella and maggots.

textual_rating:
Ferrero has recalled some Kinder products because of possible salmonella contamination, not because of maggots—but they do not include the chocolate eggs shown in these pictures, which appear to be damaged.


text: People in Poland retire at 60.
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:
The retirement age for women in Poland is 60—the lowest level in the EU. For men it’s 65 (which is the most common retirement age for men and women in EU countries).


claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-02-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/aldi-giveaway/
title: ‘Free food box’ offer on Facebook is nothing to do with Aldi - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Facebook users commenting on a post from “ALDI Stores” will be sent a free food box with groceries worth £35.

textual_rating:
This offer has not been shared by the verified Aldi Facebook page and the supermarket says it is not associated with the post.


text: Around half of free schools are in the 30% most deprived communities in the country.
claimant: Department for Education
claim_date: 2015-09-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/how-many-free-schools-are-deprived-communities/
title: How many free schools are in deprived communities? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-09-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Based on the available data (including deprivation data from 2008), just under 45% of open mainstream free schools are.


Around half of free schools are in the 30% most deprived communities in the country.


text: The government has broken a manifesto pledge by removing drugs from the Cancer Drugs Fund.
claimant: Heidi Alexander MP, Shadow Health Secretary, quoted in the Guardian
claim_date: 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/did-government-keep-its-promise-cancer-drugs-fund/
title: Did the government keep its promise on the Cancer Drugs Fund? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-09-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In its manifesto the Conservative Party promised to continue to invest in the Fund, which has seen spending rise. But drugs have been removed from the list. And beyond 2016 it could be replaced by a new system.


claimant: The Daily Telegraph
claim_date: 2022-08-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/telegraph-working-from-home-energy-costs/
title: Telegraph miscalculates the cost of working from home - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Employees are likely to be better off by £1,500 next year if they go out to work rather than working from home.

textual_rating:
This is also unreliable. It is based on the flawed £2,500 energy cost estimate and another flawed calculation for the cost of commuting by car, which only considered the cost of fuel.


text: 108 people died from Covid-19 in China on February 10th, one of the worst days so far.
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:
It is true that 108 people died in China from Covid-19 on 10 February, however, this death toll has since been surpassed.


text: Ten minutes’ exercise each week cuts risk of early death by a fifth.
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2019-03-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/reports-benefits-10-minutes-exercise-need-health-warning/
title: Reports on the benefits of 10 minutes of exercise need a health warning - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. A new study has found that American adults aged 40-85 who did 10-59 minutes of moderate physical activity per week (not just 10) had an 18% lower risk of dying than inactive adults during a follow-up period.


text: We’ve got 39 billion that we’re going to send to the EU.
claimant: Andrea Jenkyns
claim_date: 2018-10-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/extending-brexit-transition-period-cost/
title: Would extending the Brexit transition period cost £15 billion? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-11-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s the estimated size of our “divorce bill” which settles outstanding budget contributions, and other financial commitments and liabilities we have towards EU, up to the end of 2020.


text: Young people tend to be lower paid, in insecure work and spend more of their income on travel.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2018-04-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/would-free-bus-travel-save-young-people-1000-year/
title: Would free bus travel save young people £1,000 a year? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Younger workers tend to earn less and a bigger proportion of gig workers are young than in more traditional forms of employment. Compared to all households, younger ones spend slightly more on public transport.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-01-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/woman-coma-hospital-facebook-appeal/
title: Fake appeal to identify woman in ‘coma’ circulating on Facebook - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Police are appealing for more information about the identity of a young woman in a coma who had been “mugged, stabbed and left for dead” in Portsmouth.

textual_rating:
This is not a real appeal. The picture used in the post is of a teenager who was critically injured in a car crash in Utah in 2016.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-06-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/police-chemical-facemasks-coronavirus/
title: Police have not warned the public about face masks doused in chemicals - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A police bulletin warns scammers are going door to door handing out face masks doused in chemicals that cause the wearer to fall unconscious, allowing them to rob the property.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence of this police warning or of this crime taking place. This claim has been debunked around the world.


text: Over three quarters of migrants crossed by small boats in 2021.
claimant: The Daily Telegraph
claim_date: 2022-08-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/telegraph-migrant-graph/
title: Telegraph ‘migrant’ graph only captures fraction of arrivals in the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. This is the proportion of people who arrived via irregular routes, who arrived on a small boat, not the proportion of all migrants. It excludes hundreds of thousands of people who moved to the UK to live, study and work in 2021.


text: The overall teacher vacancy rate is 0.3% and has remained under 1% for the past 15 years.
claimant: Department for Education spokesperson
claim_date: 2015-12-14T00:00:00Z
title: There's only so much the data can tell us about teacher vacancies - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/education/theres-only-so-much-existing-data-can-tell-us-about-teacher-vacancies/

textual_rating:
That's correct, but the rate has been rising, albeit from a very low level. The data is thought not to fully reflect difficulties in teacher recruitment.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-07-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/labour-conference-palestine/
review_date: 2019-08-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Labour party members voted to debate Palestine rather than Brexit and the NHS at the 2018 Labour Conference.

title:
Labour members did vote to debate Palestine over the NHS and Brexit at the 2018 party Conference - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is correct, although Brexit was still debated due to being chosen for debate by Trade Unions. CLP members are usually encouraged to vote for options not chosen by the Unions.


text: UK wages have risen at the fastest rate since records began.
claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2023-08-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/wage-growth-inflation/
title: What do the latest wage growth figures actually show? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Average weekly earnings figures show that nominal regular pay (pay excluding bonuses, not adjusted for inflation) increased by 7.8% in the three months April to June 2023. This is the highest growth rate since current records began in 2001.


text: Article 61 of Magna Carta gives people the power to legally overthrow a tyrannical government.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-06-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/magna-carta-overthrow-government/
title: Magna Carta doesn’t mean you can ‘legally overthrow’ a ‘tyrannical’ government - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This part of Magna Carta has no legal standing today. It only appeared in the first version of the document, drawn up in 1215, and was never placed on the statute book.


text: An injured dog shown in a photograph has been found at the side of the road in Plumstead, London.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-04-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/injured-dog-plumstead-hoax/
title: Thousands share hoax post about injured dog - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not a real appeal. One of the pictures was taken from a veterinary clinic in Nashville, Tennessee, and police in the US have previously warned of other hoax posts using the same pictures.


text: The price to buy back hospital PFI contracts is £1 trillion.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-11-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pfi-nhs-cost-labour/
title: Labour hospital and acute care PFI contracts in England cost £1.4 billion in 2017/18 - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Although we don’t know the precise figure, the cost to buy back the PFI contracts would likely be close to the existing values of the contracts – over ten times lower than the £1 trillion claimed.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/whatsapp-gold/
title: WhatsApp Gold scams are real, but these other threats are made up - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is a hoax. There is no evidence the Martinelli video or virus exists.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A viral video called “Martinelli” will be shared on WhatsApp tomorrow. It will hack your phone if opened.


text: TV presenter Richard Madeley was rushed to hospital at 4am after receiving his booster vaccine.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-11-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/richard-madeley-vaccine/
title: Richard Madeley had his Covid-19 booster over a month before hospital visit - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s true that he was taken to hospital on 25 November, but he had his booster jab in early October and there’s no evidence his hospital visit was in any way linked.


text: We have 47,000 homeless veterans.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2017-01-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/illegal-immigrants-homeless-veterans/
title: Claims about 47,000 homeless veterans need context - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This was a 2015 estimate for the number of veterans in the US who lacked a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence. The number in the UK is likely to be significantly lower, though we don’t know for sure.


text: Antivirals should be used to fight Covid-19.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2020-04-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/thrombosis-covid-19/
title: This post about Covid-19 and blood clotting conditions contains inaccuracies - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Antiviral drugs can be used to treat viral infections, but no specific antiviral drug has been conclusively shown to be effective against Covid-19 so far.


text: You can’t buy TO-MOR-GONE because it was curing cancer, tumours, skin disorders and infections.
claimant: TikTok account
claim_date: 2022-07-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Amish-cancer-cure/
title: No proof ‘cancer cure’ in viral TikTok actually cured cancer - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There’s no evidence that this product was actually curing the diseases it professed to treat. The FDA has warned similar products may be harmful.


text: MPs get free travel.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mps-free-housing-alcohol/
title: What can MPs claim on expenses? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
MPs can claim expenses for official travel. For example, MPs with constituencies outside London can claim for travel between their constituency and Westminster.


claimant: Priti Patel
claim_date: 2022-09-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/home-office-albania-small-boat-crossing-60-percent/
title: Evidence for claim that 60% of small boat arrivals are Albanian not yet published - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Over the summer the majority of arrivals in small boats from France—about 60%—have been Albanian nationals.

textual_rating:
This figure was stated in Parliament by then-home secretary Priti Patel, but the Home Office hasn’t published the data to back it up. It has said there were certain days in the summer when the proportion of small boat arrivals who were Albanian nationals exceeded 60%.


claimant: John Campbell
claim_date: 2022-07-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/john-campbell-youtube-singapore-children/
title: YouTuber misinterprets Covid-19 vaccine evidence on children from Singapore - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
More children suffered a severe reaction to the Covd-19 vaccine than required oxygen therapy for Covid-19.

textual_rating:
This is not correct, because it is based on data for adverse events that may not have been caused by the vaccine. It also makes a false comparison, for several other reasons.


text: The Home Office set a target to cut immigration down to the tens of thousands.
claimant: Emily Thornberry
claim_date: 2018-04-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/net-migration-target-was-never-likely-have-been-met/
title: The net migration target was never likely to have been met - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct, referring to net migration rather than just immigration. Governments since 2010 have continually mentioned this figure, though it’s not clear if it is still in place.


text: Since fracking recommenced in Lancashire there have been 17 earthquakes in nine days.
claimant: Metro
claim_date: 2018-10-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/fracking-causing-earthquakes/
title: Is fracking causing earthquakes? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There were 18 earthquakes, but they’re very small, and earthquakes of this scale happen thousands of times in the UK each year. 

Fracking inherently tends to cause small earthquakes, but has occasionally been indirectly linked with larger ones as well.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-03-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/chris-rock-will-smith-oscars/
title: Chris Rock did not say he ‘crossed a line’ following Will Smith Oscars slap - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-31T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This statement is not real.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Chris Rock has issued a statement in which he said he crossed a line at the Oscars and apologises to Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith.


claimant: Geoff Norcott
claim_date: 2017-12-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/homeless-people-cold-weather/
title: What help is available for homeless people sleeping outside in cold weather? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government will only open up extra housing for homeless people if the temperature is zero degrees for three days.

textual_rating:
A scheme like this exists in England where councils can choose to take emergency measures when the temperature is forecast to be at or below zero degrees Celsius for three days in a row.


text: A video of a police officer shows her explaining the use of a wrong pronoun is a criminal offence.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2023-07-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/cheshire-police-pronouns/
review_date: 2023-08-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Video does not show police officer ‘explaining using wrong pronouns is a criminal offence’ - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The police officer in the video doesn’t mention criminality and does not claim that using a wrong pronoun for someone is a criminal offence.


text: Thousands of children have died from the Covid-19 vaccine.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-03-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccine-deaths-children/
title: No evidence Covid-19 vaccines have killed thousands of children - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Official data in the UK shows a small number of people have died as a result of Covid-19 vaccination, and that includes at least one person aged 18 or younger. There’s no evidence that thousands of children have died from the vaccine, even globally.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-08-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/Lionel-Messi-PSG-Instagram-misleading/
title: Messi didn’t double PSG’s Instagram followers - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Lionel Messi signing with Paris Saint-Germain doubled the club’s Instagram followers from 19.8 million to 40.2 million in 24 hours.

textual_rating:
It didn’t. After his signing was announced, the club’s Instagram followers increased by about 3 million.


text: The population is projected to grow to 74 million, another 10 million by 2039.
claimant: Piers Morgan
claim_date: 2018-01-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/more-people-nhs/
title: More people, more (NHS) problems? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-01-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Not quite, the population is projected to rise to 72.5 million by 2039, an increase of 7 million compared to 2016.


text: NASA’s budget for a manned mission to Mars is $6 billion.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/test-and-trace-nasa/
title: NASA Mars mission would cost much more than two years of NHS Test and Trace - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In 2014, a NASA panel of experts put the total cost of a 20 year programme culminating in a manned mission to Mars at between $80 and $100 billion.


text: The number of Britons drinking to harmful levels has fallen sharply.
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/britain-sobering-up/
title: Booze telling the truth? Is Britain sobering up or not? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
21% of adults aged 16+ in England reported to an NHS Digital survey that they usually drank more than the recommended 14 units of alcohol a week in 2017. This level has been falling since at least 2012.


