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The Daily Mail has corrected an article that incorrectly claimed “Korean researchers said they found proof the [covid vaccines] raised the risk of six types of cancer including lung, breast and prostate.”In fact the Korean researchers in question said the opposite. They said they had found an …
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A false claim that Arsenal footballer Declan Rice has donated millions to a London council’s housing project has been shared thousands of times online.Posts making similar versions of the claim have been circulating on Facebook and Threads, with one—which has 141,000 reactions and more than 4,400 …
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In the wake of last month’s announcement that the NHS will offer the chickenpox vaccine to children across the UK next year, we’ve seen a number of false and misleading claims on social media.Some social media users have responded to the news by incorrectly calling the vaccine “poison”, while …
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A cardiologist called Dr Aseem Malhotra was in the news this weekend after he suggested in a speech at the Reform UK party conference that Covid vaccines may have been linked to cancer in the Royal Family.While this claim has been widely covered, Dr Malhotra, whom we have fact checked before, also …
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What was claimed Covid vaccines caused a 300% rise in miscarriage and cancer rates, and a 1,000% rise in neurological disorders. Our verdict False. These figures come from a calculation based on faulty data. The corrected figures were much lower, and did not show a rise in these conditions caused …
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What was claimed mRNA vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like Covid and flu. Our verdict This is not correct—mRNA vaccines have been proven to be effective against Covid-19. No mRNA flu vaccines have been approved yet, but one was more effective than standard …
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A post shared hundreds of times on Facebook, and liked more than 100,000 times on Instagram, falsely suggests that vaccines cause autism, and claims that there was no autism in Vietnam before the introduction of a vaccination programme supported by Bill Gates.The post includes a video clip of a man …
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A video is being shared on social media alongside claims it shows an Iranian drone strike in Israel—but the footage actually dates back to October 2022, and shows a drone attack in Kyiv, Ukraine.The video being shared on social media shows what appears to be a drone causing an explosion in a …
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Today is National Numeracy Day, and at Full Fact we often see how easy it is for figures to mislead, confuse or be misunderstood—sometimes by accident, and sometimes deliberately. From viral Covid claims to misleading headlines and honest mistakes, poor numeracy can often distort how we see the …
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A Facebook post claiming that the US Supreme Court ruled that Covid-19 vaccines are not vaccines is circulating again—but there’s no truth to it.The post says: “Great and groundbreaking ruling by the US Supreme Court. Covid vaccines are NOT vaccines. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. won his lawsuit against …
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