A video is being shared online with claims it shows Iran’s attack on a US airbase in Qatar—but it isn’t real, and was ...

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Claims about the footage that circulated widely on social media after it was posted last week are false—and here’s how we ...

The picture seems to be a photograph of several police officers kneeling as though in prayer in front of a group of men in Islamic dress. A caption on the image, and in the posts sharing it, says: ...

Le o Benedictus Journalist Leo joined Full Fact in January 2020. For 15 years, he worked freelance as a feature writer for the Guardian, Prospect, the New Scientist and others, making maps of ...

A clip is circulating on social media with claims it shows “Muslim migrants” in a cemetery in Ireland, but the footage was ...

Full Fact’s Government Tracker is monitoring the government’s delivery on its promises so voters can judge what progress it has made. The Prime Minister himself has said this is important, and we want ...

What does the pledge mean? The Labour party’s 2024 manifesto promised to “ensure the next generation can never legally buy cigarettes”. The government plans to achieve this by making it illegal to ...

At this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions, Sir Keir Starmer mentioned new scanners being installed in “two hospitals in the ...

Since the election of Sir Keir Starmer as leader of the Labour party earlier this year, there has been a lot of discussion online and in the media about the role Mr Starmer played in the Jimmy Savile ...

Our verdict There were 4.2 million more appointments between July 2024 and March 2025 than in the same period a year previously, so for now we’re rating this as “achieved”, though there’s some ...

A post on Facebook claims that the name of Covid-19 vaccine developer AstraZeneca translates to ‘weapon that kills’. This is not accurate. On the subject of its name, AstraZeneca has previously ...