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A video on Instagram and Facebook simulates ‘an experiment’ which claims to have made the “shocking discovery” that there is graphene oxide in a bottle of San Pellegrino sparkling water. However, graphene oxide is not an ingredient of San Pellegrino sparkling water and this claim was addressed as …
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A Facebook video that appears to be a report by US media outlet E! News claims that American celebrities were paid millions by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to visit Ukraine. But the video is fake. It was never published by E! News. The clip features the company’s …
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A viral Facebook post claims that a video shows how the BBC “accidentally admitted” HIV was added to the Covid vaccines, but this is missing some important context, as we said when similar posts were being shared in 2022. Firstly, the clip, which comes from a BBC documentary from June 2021, …
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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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