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In recent days claims from US President Donald Trump and his defence secretary Pete Hegseth that the US has committed more than $300 billion in support to Ukraine have been widely reported in the media. Mr Hegseth claimed on 13 February that the US has committed “north of $300 billion” to …
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Today, 31 January 2025, is the fifth anniversary of the day the UK formally left the European Union. And to mark it, we’ve been taking a quick look back at some of the claims we’ve fact checked about Brexit, both in that period and before, since the EU referendum nearly nine years ago. During the …
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A post on Instagram shares a video clip in which a woman claims, among other things, that “COVID-19 does not exist” and “germs don’t cause disease”. Both these claims are false, as we have said several times before. The clip seems to come from a longer video interview that the late Dr Lorraine Day …
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A photo being shared on social media claims to show an article written by Bill Gates in 2011 headlined “Depopulation through forced vaccination: the zero carbon solution!”. But Mr Gates did not write this. The photo shows someone holding a newspaper called The Sovereign Independent with the …
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A photo is being shared on social media with claims it shows the reconstruction of the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol in southeast Ukraine, but it actually shows Saratov in Russia, over 450 miles away. The photo, which is taken from above, shows a collection of white buildings painted with a …
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We’ve seen numerous claims about the apparent health risks of 5G technology circulating on social media. Several posts on Facebook show an image of a warning poster with accompanying text that states “This is a 5G small cell tower. The signals emitted by this tower are damaging to humans, animals …
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A satirical video is being widely shared online with claims it shows a real case of a pilot in Germany launching a legal appeal against being fired for refusing to “spray chemicals” during flights. The clip, which has been circulating on X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook, is being falsely presented …
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A fake quote supposedly from NATO’s most senior official, threatening to expel the US from the alliance if President-elect Donald Trump “surrenders Ukraine to Putin”, has been circulating on social media. One post on X, formerly Twitter, has been reshared more than 3,300 times, and says: “‘If Trump …
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A photo of two white domes is being shared with misleading captions implying it is connected to artificial weather manipulation. The image has been shared on Facebook hundreds of times with the caption: “Control the Weather, Control The World.” It shows two large white orbs, mounted on small …
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A Facebook post circulating online says that childhood vaccines are “poison”. This isn’t true. Vaccines are generally a safe and effective means of protecting a baby or child against serious and sometimes fatal diseases. All vaccines in use in the UK are monitored for side effects by the Medicines …
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