So... is there any evidence for Nigel Farage's claim last week about migrants eating swans and carp? That's the subject of @fullfact.org's latest PA Media column, which appears this week in 150+ publications. Here it is via the York Press 👇 www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/nationa...

Loads of social media chatter about this - some posts with more than a million views. Both Multiverse and DSIT have said it's not true - and in any event Multiverse is an "upskilling" company, not a software developer.

Since November Full Fact has been running a major project monitoring Labour’s delivery of its pledges - we’re now following 80. As Labour opens its conference, here’s what our Government Tracker does (and doesn’t) tell us about its performance so far fullfact.org/politics/tra...

Not to give away what fact check we're working on at the moment, but just received a Slack message from a colleague which said "That's technically a goose"

Interesting argument here on the impact of expected goals/xG, and whether as a stat it's led top-flight football players to take fewer shots from outside the box...

Great investigation here from @sleighbayley.bsky.social looking at a new trend in online misinformation - we've seen dozens of these videos across social media in recent weeks

Our PA Media round-up of fact checks this week looks at claims about the size of the ’Unite the Kingdom’ protest, and Labour’s pledge on the new ‘Hillsborough Law’. It’s carried by local news outlets across the country - here it is via the Ham & High 👇 www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/nationa...

How was @fullfact.org able to geolocate a viral video to a boarding school in Indonesia... with a little help from ChatGPT? One of the fact checkers from our News and Online team, which does this kind of work every day, explains 👇 fullfact.org/world/how-ai...

17,000 shares on TikTok alone for this video 👇 So. just for the avoidance of doubt... no, supermarkets aren't going to have staff on the doors operating "airport-style security" and inspecting your photo ID as of *checks notes* tomorrow morning fullfact.org/shopping/sup...

170ish pick-ups of our latest fact check sent out via PA Media, on Conservative claims about unemployment under Labour. Here it is from the Independent 👇 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Entertaining long (really, really long) read here in the New Yorker about its “vaunted fact checking department”: newyorker.com/magazine/202... And while it’s obviously a different type of fact checking to what @fullfact.org does, there’s a lot that sounds fairly familiar…

🚨 CORRECTIONS SECURED The Guardian and Sky News have both kindly corrected claims about asylum hotels after @fullfact.org got in touch. (We're still waiting for the Home Office to respond about a minister's claim, however...) Full details here 👇 fullfact.org/live/2025/se...

It's a line we've heard a lot from the Conservatives in recent days - that unemployment under Labour has gone up "every single month". But is it actually true? Well actually... fullfact.org/economy/kemi...

Loads of pick-up by national and local media of @fullfact.org’s PA Media column this week, looking at the number of small boat crossings in August. Here it is via the Chard and Ilminster News 👇 www.chardandilminsternews.co.uk/news/nationa...

Are there over a million people in the UK illegally, as claimed at Reform UK’s #RUK25 conference in Birmingham today? Our politics blog looks at what we know 🔍 fullfact.org/live/2025/se...

We're continuing to expand the range of Labour pledges we're monitoring on our Government Tracker. This, added today, is pledge #74, on the planned review of UC fullfact.org/government-t...

This week @fullfact.org has heard *three* claims from ministers about immigration which appear to be incorrect. The stats in this area are complicated, and fiddly, and easy to confuse. But clearly it’s crucial they’re discussed accurately. So what have ministers got wrong? A 🧵 (1/5)

Thousands sharing and commenting on an image doing the rounds on social media, supposedly of a Daily Mail article revealing that the government's considering banning public displays of the England flag. It's entirely fake - the Mail's published no such article.

Private Eye’s piece last week on @fullfact.org’s investigation into Google Lens’ AI overviews…

Lots of inaccurate and misleading claims about asylum hotel numbers flying around this week. A useful summary of the claims we've seen (one of which has been promptly corrected) and what the numbers really show here 👇 fullfact.org/immigration/...

Google Lens is a useful tool - but worryingly, a new @fullfact.org investigation has found its AI overviews have been giving users false and misleading information about certain images shared widely on social media. Important story here 👇 fullfact.org/technology/t...

NEW: What progress has Labour made on its promise to scrap "effective immunity for some shoplifting"? We've just added a new pledge page to our Government Tracker (pledge #70...) 👇 fullfact.org/government-t...

Back at work after almost three weeks off, which is a lot of internet to catch up on. What have I missed?

Are ‘Channel migrants’ 24 times more likely to go to prison than British citizens? Frustratingly we still don’t have full details of how the Conservatives actually calculated that figure - but based on the details reported it’s not reliable. Here’s why 👇 fullfact.org/immigration/...

"For the best examination of how well or badly Labour’s first year has really gone, look at Full Fact’s thorough analysis of 62 manifesto pledges" Kind mention from Polly Toynbee here in the Guardian of @fullfact.org's Government Tracker www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Dozens of Labour MPs are reportedly threatening to vote against the government’s welfare bill this evening. But what happens if a bill fails to pass its second reading? And when was a government bill last defeated at this stage? We take a look. 👇

This is a big deal... and not ideal

Loads of AI-generated and mislabelled footage going viral this week as the Israel-Iran conflict continues. @fullfact.org's round-up for PA Media covers claims we've seen spreading on social media - and cuts through some inflation confusion 👇 www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/fact...

New inflation figures out today show inflation in May was 3.4%. But why have some reports said that’s the same as in April, and others said there’s been a fall? The confusion is due to a mistake in last month’s figures. Our politics blog explains 👇

How much do resident doctors (formerly known as junior doctors) really earn? Some say it’s £17 an hour. The government claims their average basic pay is £54,300/yr. We look at the numbers 🔎 buff.ly/qeTJAML

🚨 Lots of mislabelled and AI-generated footage is circulating on social media currently in relation to the Israel-Iran conflict. Here’s a quick thread with some of what @fullfact.org has seen in the last few days, plus tips on how to verify content... (1/5)

How much is spending really increasing by? What do announcements on asylum hotels and police budgets mean for Labour's pledges? And did the govt 'fiddle' its fiscal rules? Full analysis from the @fullfact.org team here on a wide range of Spending Review claims.

Big day in Westminster with all eyes on the Spending Review later - here's @fullfact.org's quick summary of what to expect and how we'll be covering it fullfact.org/politics/202...

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan last month claimed a “skilled migrant” contributes on average £16,000/yr to the economy and a “Brit skilled worker” £800/yr. But that isn’t what Migration Advisory Committee data shows. We’ve looked at the numbers 🔍

How good are ChatGPT and other LLMs at identifying where in the world a photo was taken? Fascinating investigation/thread here…

Great to hear @fullfact.org featured in the Radio 4 Appeal again earlier today. Listen here to Martha Kearney tell Charlotte's story, and explain how we work to find, expose and counter the harms of bad information 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Was Reform UK right to claim "this Labour government has allowed the biggest influx of migrants in British history”? And why did a minister claim "we've seen inflation coming down"? Here's @fullfact.org's latest fact-checking round-up in the Independent 👇 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

School standards minister Catherine McKinnell MP claimed on Sky News earlier that “we’ve seen inflation coming down”. But that’s not what the most recent figures show, and her department has since told us she meant to refer to interest rates.

🚨 NEW: Data obtained by @fullfact.org via FOI request reveals the rise in NHS appointments hailed by the government is *smaller* than last year’s increase under the Conservatives. Full investigation 👉 fullfact.org/health/labou... On Sky News this morning 👉 news.sky.com/story/labour...

🏥 Does the UK really have the world's 12th largest ‘female health gap’? Until recently, that claim was quoted everywhere - by MPs, the media, the BMA, Lancet and more. Now a major @fullfact.org investigation’s secured a string of high-profile corrections... fullfact.org/health/does-...

The government says today’s agreement between the UK and the EU provides “stability” for UK fisheries, but others have claimed it represents a “sell-out”. Our politics live blog takes a look at exactly what’s been agreed on fishing.

NHS England has quickly corrected a mistake in a calculation showing the number of extra hospital appointments this year, after Full Fact challenged the error. The figure originally quoted in an NHS press release earlier today was out by around 300,000 appointments.

Lots of claims about jobs and unemployment stats flying around at today's #PMQs - and questions since about the Conservative claim that unemployment is up 10% since the election. Some answers here 👇 fullfact.org/economy/unem...

Big day for @fullfact.org with the launch of our 2025 Report. We publish this report each year, drawing on our fact checking and other work over the past 12 months, setting out the state of misinformation in the UK. Spoiler alert - this year, the news isn’t great… fullfact.org/media/upload...

Unveiling the government’s new immigration white paper today Keir Starmer promised net migration would fall “significantly”. Our explainer looks at the scale of net migration - and why existing projections already suggest numbers are likely to drop.

🚨 As we always see with big breaking news events, lots of images and video circulating on social media at the moment alongside claims about the India-Pakistan conflict, which aren’t what they say they are. Here are some of the examples we’ve seen 👇 fullfact.org/conflict/ind...

Lots of debate at the moment, including at #PMQs today, about Reform UK's policy on the NHS. On the eve of the local elections, we've taken an in-depth look at the claims (and counter-claims) here 👇 fullfact.org/health/refor...

Lots of media pick-up for @fullfact.org's latest round-up of fact checks - this week featuring: 🗳️ a Nigel Farage claim about council elections 📽️ a video of the late Pope with Donald Trump 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 St George's Day confusion Here it is in the Whitchurch Herald 👇 www.whitchurchherald.co.uk/news/nationa...

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage claimed his party has “gained more seats” than any other since Kemi Badenoch became Conservative party leader. Whether that’s true or not depends on how you count the number of seats “gained”. Our analysis 👇

The chancellor Rachel Reeves yesterday claimed the UK “is still the fastest growing European G7 country”. That reflects the latest IMF projections for 2025-2030. Our politics blog looks in detail at the figures. 🔍