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A post on Facebook, apparently discussing the Covid-19 vaccines, claims: “Imagine a product expected to be taken multiple times by billions of people…that was presented in a way that led those people to believe its effectiveness was 98% good… The
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Claims that Pfizer had recently released documents stating that the Covid-19 vaccines were not recommended during pregnancy and breastfeeding have been shared thousands of times on Twitter. The posts, which show an extract from an official-looking document stating that “COVID-19
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Why aren’t we talking about this? It seems, if the booster shot is making it thrice as likely that you’re going to be deadsville, that they’re going to carrying you out by the handles, why aren’t we talking about that?
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A Facebook post shared over 1,400 times contains multiple pictures of aeroplanes with the caption: “To those who say that chemtrails don’t exist and that it’s just ‘aeroplane fumes’”. The idea of ‘chemtrails’ refers to a conspiracy theory that the
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Posts on social media claim that 482 Covid-19 deaths were reported in the UK on 19 April, 508 on 20 April and 646 on 21 April. While these figures are correct, they need significant additional context. Firstly, these figures represent
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An infographic posted on Instagram claims to show different ways of calculating the Covid-19 death toll in the UK up to December 2021. The figures are broadly correct but give a misleading impression without additional context. The infographic appears to
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An interview broadcast by GB News, and watched more than 250,000 times across Facebook and YouTube, makes a number of inaccurate claims about Covid-19 and vaccines. The segment on 23 March, presented by the author and television presenter Mark Steyn,
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A post on Facebook makes the following claim: “The Great Reset is not a conspiracy theory. The World Economic Forum website reveals its agenda.” We’ve fact checked a number of false claims about the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ initiative,
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A chart being shared on Instagram claims to show the “Covid survival rate” for ten different countries, giving a figure for all of them of above 99.9%. This is not correct. For the UK, where the true figure (using the
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Rates of Long Covid fall if the virus is caught in warmer months, research suggests. The Mirror, 23 March 2022. An article in the Mirror said that catching Covid-19 at a warmer time of year makes people less likely to
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