A sign shared on Facebook appeared in Tower Hamlets in 2014—we’ve seen no recent reports of the same or similar signs ...

Two ministers’ claims last week about the extra amount which will be spent on protecting the triple lock are potentially misleading ...

A BBC News video reports the First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska is trying to claim political asylum in a European country in order to escape an “aggravated relationship” with President Zelenskyy.

This is not correct. The National Crime Agency has actually estimated cocaine consumption in England, Scotland and Wales to be around 117 tonnes annually, though this figure may be outdated. On ...

False. We’ve found no reports of a missing girl of that name in any of the locations mentioned in the posts claiming this, and the accompanying image is of an older girl who briefly went missing in ...

There’s no evidence this is a genuine audio recording. It first circulated in October 2023 and was widely reported as fake at the time. It may have been created by artificial intelligence, though we ...

What do the following three things have in common: amazing scenes of ‘miracle houses’ that survived the LA wildfires, a picture of Israeli soldiers taken prisoner by Hezbollah, and an image of a young ...

This is not quite right. Ms Mahmood is the Lord Chancellor and the Secretary of State for Justice, which does not make her head of the judiciary for the UK. The head of the judiciary for England and ...

I work in the News and Online team at Full Fact, focusing on the weird and wonderful claims circulating on social media, particularly after breaking news events. I previously worked at The Bookseller ...

These figures refer to the total number of immigration returns (up to 31 January or 22 March respectively). But not all of these were officially classed as deportations. The majority involved people ...

because Shabana Mahmood is not the head of the UK’s justice system and Sir Hamid Patel is the interim chair of Ofsted’s board, not Head of the UK’s Education System. Some, including Kemi Badenoch, ...

A group of MPs have signed a letter calling for the UK to fund the construction of an airport in Pakistan. This is misleading. Twenty UK MPs and peers did sign a letter to Pakistan’s Prime Minister ...