If you want to know the facts rather than believing headlines that are meant to divide and distract follow @monkemma.bsky.social Yet another example of the Daily Express lying to it’s dwindling readership for click bait

Outraged at 500,000 days sick at HMRC (Daily Express)? PLEASE read this thread. If you think it's a pack of lies, PLEASE read this thread. It is a comprehensive demolition of the Express's attempt to manipulate its readership and it's really disingenuous. Message: DO NOT believe everything you read!

There's lies, damn lies and the Daily Express...

If you haven't discovered @monkemma.bsky.social yet, they provide unparalleled scrutiny of wild headlines and their accompanying unscrupulous, unreliable and generally inaccurate articles...

Excellent debunking of misleading media as usual by @monkemma.bsky.social TL;DR the civil service is in the public sector but is only 9% of it, so conflating public sector with civil service will give nonsense. monkdebunks.substack.com/p/the-sick-n...

Last week the Express ran with the following front page. So obviously I had to take a look! Is it true? How does it compare to other professions? Because anyone familiar with British RW media discourse knows they reserve a special venom for civil servants…🤷🏼‍♀️ 🧵 1/25 (1/1)

This is an impressive piece of work and a must read. Thanks Emma.

Terrific analysis as usual, from @monkemma.bsky.social Benefits, Taxes, and Misleading Headlines open.substack.com/pub/monkdebu...

Terrific analysis as usual, from @monkemma.bsky.social Benefits, Taxes, and Misleading Headlines open.substack.com/pub/monkdebu...

A timely reminder to ALWAYS look beyond the headlines from HM The Queen of Debunking - a great way to educate those who don't bother 👏👏👏

I had no idea that state pension, NHS and education are classed as 'benefits' by ONS. Excellent explantion by @monkemma.bsky.social

Think you know what a “benefit” is when you see headlines like this? I’m pretty confident most people wouldn’t know it includes stuff like the NHS and state education 😮 Great breakdown as always by Emma Monk —>

Read all the way to the end and understand it’s YOU they’re coming for, ‘cos obviously the ultra wealthy think a fair society is unfair on them. What these people say and what they intend to do are different. You’re meant to vote for the smokescreen, not the reality. Angry yet? And well done Emma.

Reform UK disgusts me on every level

Following Farage’s announcement that he plans to make “serious cuts to the welfare budgets” if he wins the next election, I’ve seen this claim being repeated from last year’s headlines again. So let’s take a look at the the reality rather than the weaponised version 🧵 1/21

Blown away by how quickly this has grown over the 6 months since I started! Thank you to everyone who has, and is supporting me! This “One woman debunking machine” has so much more work to do! 💪😁 monkdebunks.substack.com

The thread I wrote last week around Angela Rayner's housing affairs was written based on all the publicly available information at the time. https://bsky.app/profile/monkemma.bsky.social/post/3lxkgz6oolo2c Following a statement from Rayner, I want to keep you updated! 🧵1/7

We gave it a plug on Quiet Riot this morning. 🙏🏼

An excellent thread. Sets out all the facts clearly and unambiguously. Thank you @monkemma.bsky.social 👏👏👏👏

Another great example of a fact checking thread from Emma 🙏🏽 bsky.app/profile/monk...

Excellent thread on the Telegraph's baseless Rayner smear. The only person "taking the piss" is misinformation-made-flesh Sarah Vine.

Love that!

Absolutely fantastic thread, well worth a read.

Really clear explanation. Saving this for when my Telegraph-reading mum starts going on about it.

Good thread. Thanks .

Just read this, the truth matters not to our media …..

You don't have to like Rayner, but she is definitely being targeted this is another good investigation by Emma.

The desperation by those on the Right to smear Angela Rayner is wearing thin🙄 And no - don’t bother replying UNTIL you’ve read the thread! I’ve trawled through multiple versions of this “story” in the Telegraph and Daily Mail to try and piece together what’s going on! 🧵1/17

Thank you @ianwinwood.bsky.social for this lovely write up in today’s @thenewworldmag.bsky.social I’m loving that title! 💪😆

This is good! Please read it. (Thanks Emma)

This one looks like it was so easy to dismantle that GB Politics should be embarrassed that they've soiled themselves so badly. But it is only because of legends like @monkemma.bsky.social that this kind of thing gets challenged/exposed at all. Thanks once again Emma. Enjoy your break!

Another informative post from Emma 👇

Another excellent thread from @monkemma.bsky.social Do subscribe to her substack, it’s essential reading ☺️

Are Small Boat Migrants Really 24x More Likely to Go to Prison? open.substack.com/pub/monkdebu... thank heavens for @monkemma.bsky.social

No sooner had I finished my mega-debunk of asylum seeker "perks" at the weekend, when along comes another claim! If you read my thread a few days ago, you may be able to spot the obvious whiff of 🐄💩. If not, let me enlighten you! 👍🏼 🧵1/8

Recommended read from @monkemma.bsky.social monkdebunks.substack.com/p/from-plays...

Emma Monk is a molecular biologist who does this - and thank goodness she does. But why tf doesn’t the Labour Party who are in government do it? Or even echo it? Or even deal with the media lies FFS? “Hallo, Nigel: let us give you the keys to Number Ten.” 🙄 I despair.

Great thread. Should be shared widely. Not sure why it’s been left for @monkemma.bsky.social to do but I thank her for her work and wish the government and other party leaders would take note that they could do this to a much larger audience. Why is that? What could it possibly do for them 🤔

Brilliant, essential threadery here:

Great thread with the truth behind those distorted claims about asylum seeker 'perks'

A clear, meticulously researched debunking of the latest article that has Tory and Reform frothing at the mouth. Thank you, @monkemma.bsky.social

📌 this thread for all your handy debunking requirements the next time someone starts wanging on about asylum seekers getting freebies.

As soon as I saw this article I was looking forward to Emma Monk's @monkemma.bsky.social thread!

We'll be publishing this tomorrow for those not on BlueSky or the bad place! Emma is a fab debunker and we are v proud and grateful that we had her as a writer before her substack career took off.

Another stellar debunking. Though how the Tories have the nerve to publish such pathetic rubbish in the first place is beyond me.

I’ve got a feeling this is going to be worth reading…

This absolutely excellent thread needs to be shared and shared and shared. And transfer the information to other social media platforms. And if you have a Tory MP or local councillor, write to them and challenge them!

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You've GOT to be kidding me! The Conservatives - who oversaw every single thing on this list - are trying to claim that only the Conservatives would "stop the madness" - that they created...? So incredulity aside, what about the list itself? Let's go Debunking! 1/34