Are this year’s local elections being ‘cancelled’? – Full Fact
Jan 29, 2025 · In recent weeks we’ve seen lots of claims about council elections in May being “cancelled”—from politicians, in the media and on social media, where some have also …
Deepfake video shows Keir Starmer promoting an investment …
Nov 16, 2023 · A video circulating on Facebook appears to show Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer promoting an investment scheme. However, this video is not genuine and the audio on it …
Government Tracker – Full Fact
Sep 24, 2024 · 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 …
Home Office publishes immigration returns data following Full …
The Home Office has today published data to support a claim made by the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer about immigration returns since Labour entered government, after Full Fact asked …
Is milk from cows fed Bovaer safe? – Full Fact
Dec 5, 2024 · This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook …
Labour’s ‘£22 billion black hole’ figure is not directly comparable …
Nov 29, 2024 · This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook …
The media must stop using misleading headlines – Full Fact
May 28, 2021 · Often the article doesn’t actually say what the headline promised. We call this an ‘edline’. It isn’t easy for journalists to reduce an article to a headline of just a few words.
Naz Shah did not say quote about grooming gangs – Full Fact
Feb 20, 2023 · A post on Facebook has claimed that Labour MP Naz Shah previously said: “Those abused girls in Rotherham and elsewhere just need to shut their mouths. For the good …
How our fact checking work with Meta makes a real-worl
Jan 9, 2025 · Hoax posts. Thousands of people shared this appeal for a missing child called Sofia, and tens of thousands probably felt they were doing the right thing by sharing a photo of …
Is Labour right to claim there’s a £22 billion ‘black hole’ in the ...
Oct 24, 2024 · What is the ‘£22 billion black hole’? In a statement in the House of Commons on 29 July, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves said that a Public Spending Audit …