Lots of misleading Venezuela-related imagery across social media in the last few days. One such example here - footage of explosions shared with captions about the US strikes actually dates back to October 2024 and was filmed in Israel. Our fact check: fullfact.org/world/old-vi...

It’s not often these days I get to write, but as 2025 draws to a close, when better to reflect on an extraordinary 12 months? @fullfact.org published 750+ fact checks this year. Here are five things we learned… and what they might tell us about 2026. fullfact.org/politics/fiv...

Strong pick-up of @fullfact.org's investigation into the wave of fake stories about personal freedoms flooding social media at the moment - lots of titles running it after we put it out via PA Media yesterday. Here it is as carried by the Sutton Guardian: www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/nationa...

🚨 NEW: Fake stories about curbs on personal freedoms and bogus taxes are continuing to rack up millions of views on social media. We've fact checked 45 such claims since we first wrote about this trend in September. Our new investigation 👇 fullfact.org/politics/fak...

This video supposedly showing a British soldier shouting at a police officer has had thousands of shares and millions of views - but it's AI-generated. Our fact check: fullfact.org/world/video-...

This claim *keeps* cropping up - it's still not quite right. The number of unemployed people and the unemployment rate are both up markedly under Labour - just not "every single month"

Our latest round-up of fact checks for PA Media covers: 👩‍🏫 Teacher numbers 🎄 'Christmas decorations tax' claims As always the round-up runs in media outlets across the country - here's how it appeared for the Reading Chronicle 👇 www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/nationa...

Great to see our fact check of Keir Starmer's claim about teacher numbers put directly to the PM at the Liaison Committee today...

👩‍🏫 Are teacher numbers *up* under Labour (as Keir Starmer claimed)? Or *down* (as per Kemi Badenoch)? The truth is, we don't have great data to answer that question - the figures everyone's referencing are Nov 24 vs Nov 23. But here's what it shows 🔎 fullfact.org/education/pm...

Starting to see a new festive angle to some of the fake stories about personal freedoms currently flooding Facebook... Details here 👉 fullfact.org/economy/chri...

Nine days into a bout of what I’m assuming started out as 'superflu' and *still* struggling to properly recover...

Anyone else followed around on LinkedIn by some slightly bizarrely targeted ads? I do not have a prior policing career, or any plans to move Down Under - yet the Western Australia Police Force have been trying to recruit me for months...

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Brilliant to see @fullfact.org's new investigation - revealing how academics are being deepfaked on TikTok and Instagram to promote supplements - featured here in the Guardian 👇 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

🚨 NEW: @fullfact.org's now updated its Government Tracker to reflect the impact of #Budget2025 on Labour's tax pledges. Getting the logic right on this is tricky, but we're now rating the different elements of its headline pledge as below 👇

Lots of debate about whether freezing personal tax thresholds in the #Budget2025 today means Labour has broken the letter and/or spirit of its manifesto promises. Here’s @fullfact.org’s take: fullfact.org/politics/budge… And this is a key point 👇

Tomorrow we’ll be ‘live fact checking’ #Budget2025. It’s the hardest thing we do - so how does it actually work? Here's a blog I wrote earlier this year explaining the process. (Spoiler alert - it involves many spreadsheets...) fullfact.org/blog/2025/ap...

Punchy final line in this Times story about the Prime Minister doing the ‘6-7’ thing on a school visit…

Bad news for anyone who's seen this viral video and is hoping for a boosted DWP Christmas bonus this year - claims that the bonus is jumping from £10 to £200 are entirely bogus. Our fact check: fullfact.org/economy/dwp-...

A big week ahead in politics - and like many others, the @fullfact.org team are currently in full prep mode for the main event on Wednesday. Our latest PA Media column looks at exactly what Labour's pledged on income tax. Here it is via the Colchester Gazette www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/nationa...

Many claimed this week that revised ONS migration figures show an "exodus" of Britons - with some suggesting Labour's policies are responsible. But do the stats support those claims? Lots of number-crunching in this new @fullfact.org analysis 👉 fullfact.org/immigration/...

Lots of speculation ahead of next week's Budget that the government may extend the freeze on income tax thresholds. But would that be a breach of Labour's manifesto promises? And what exactly has the party pledged on income tax? Our new explainer 🔍 fullfact.org/economy/labo...

This story really did take an unexpected turn…

Winter is coming…

This viral video supposedly showing a teacher in the UK telling school children to do Islamic prayers and chant "Allahu Akbar" isn't real, and was almost certainly made using AI. (One clue? She appears to sit on an invisible chair at one point...) Our fact check: fullfact.org/education/fa...

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This video supposedly showing Keir Starmer announcing an 11pm curfew next month has had tens of thousands of views on TikTok and Facebook. So many examples of this sort of video circulating at the moment - and they're being shared at scale... Our fact check: fullfact.org/politics/11p...

It’s not every day the Deputy Prime Minister corrects the parliamentary record after a fact check. So this is great to see... Full details here: fullfact.org/live/2025/no...

At #PMQs Kemi Badenoch claimed unemployment has gone up “every single month” under Labour. We wrote about this last month and found it isn’t quite true 👇

At #PMQs Keir Starmer said the government “delivered five million extra” NHS appointments in its first year of government. While it’s true there were an extra 5.2m appointments, this is less than the increase in the previous year.

Papiss Cisse, Danny Drinkwater, Stephen Ireland - meet the Sunday League team packed full of former Premier League footballers. Great piece here from the Telegraph (£) www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...

Fake ‘train attack’ imagery and the truth about childhood obesity stats… Here’s our latest round-up of fact checks for PA Media, as it appeared in the Independent 👇 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Fact checking claims from AI tools is an increasingly important part of our work - and today @fullfact.org found Grok and Google Lens AI overviews have been claiming that fake imagery shows the Huntingdon train attack last Saturday. A short 🧵 (1/4)

I'll be honest, when I heard we were fact checking a claim about a "robot dog" which was "patrolling a migrant hotel", I assumed it was the robot dog-bit we were taking issue with... And yet: fullfact.org/immigration/...

Loads of low-grade fake alarmist 'news reports' being shared on TikTok and other social media currently. Here's another example - videos claiming the government's banning the use of central heating after 9pm. Entirely untrue, of course - but the videos are getting 10,000s of views.

Nope, Hurricane Melissa wasn’t caused by the HAARP research facility, or “generated by the HAARP weather modification weapon”. Our fact check: fullfact.org/environment/...

"Somewhat improbably, the person whose stolen phone had randomly come into our possession was a London Centric reader." Great story from @jim.londoncentric.media and @londoncentric.media - on how thieves are burying stolen mobiles in London's flowerbeds... www.londoncentric.media/p/london-pho...

No, this dramatic video circulating on social media with claims it shows the eye of Hurricane Melissa filmed from a plane flying above isn't legit - it's AI-generated. Our fact check (which has a link to genuine footage filmed by storm hunters): fullfact.org/environment/...

We’re following several Labour promises mentioned at today’s #PMQs on our Government Tracker, including: 👮‍♀️ Neighbourhood policing 🏘️ Respect Orders 🩺 Hospital appointments

1,000+ shares for this TikTok video claiming that from this month onwards "every single driver entering central London will face a £100 charge". It's not true, obviously - but it's part of a recent surge in fake viral claims about personal freedoms. fullfact.org/economy/100-...

Always nice when marketing emails have that personal touch…

Avoiding Traitors spoilers when scouring news websites seems to have suddenly become much harder with the latest series. Yes an individual headline/picture combo might not explicitly say who's been banished, but jigsaw identification *is* a thing...

🪙 Has the UK pledged £40bn to rebuild Gaza? 📈 Is the UK's national debt set to match the size of the economy? 🛜 Will all households face a new £27/mth 'wifi charge'? Here's @fullfact.org's latest fact check round-up, as it appeared in the Independent 👇 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

In the last few days viral posts have claimed Italy's PM Giorgia Meloni said of Keir Starmer that "if anything he harmed peace negotiations" in Gaza. But the Italian embassy says she said no such thing - and there's absolutely no evidence she did. fullfact.org/world/gaza-d...

Is Reform UK projected to be on course for the ‘biggest landslide’ in history? A headline-grabbing poll published earlier this week comes with an important caveat... fullfact.org/politics/ref...

Some very kind words in @pollytoynbee.bsky.social's latest column about Full Fact, "the exceptionally valuable UK factchecker whose word is a gold standard for honesty" - she highlights the financial challenges we and other fact checkers are currently facing www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Really interesting speculation here on what the next few years might look like…

Google has ended its support for Full Fact. Our fact checks are free to read but not to produce. Support independent, impartial fact checking today: donate.fullfact.org/july-rg-ask?...

At #PMQs today, PM Keir Starmer and shadow housing secretary James Cleverly clashed over comments Mr Starmer claimed Mr Cleverly made about China in 2023. What did the former foreign secretary actually say? Our politics blog has the transcript.

An image doing the rounds on social media at the moment supposedly shows an AP news report claiming that Donald Trump has been barred from consideration for all future Nobel Prizes. It's fake - there's been no such report and no such decision...