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Gigi Hadid backtracks on claims Israel is 'raping and torturing' Palestinians as she admits she … Mail Online05:51Fact Check (World) Israel Palestine
Gigi Hadid apologises for 'not fact-checking' post about Palestinian children Metro.co.uk17:36Fact Check (World) Israel Palestine
Prime Minister told to use side of hammer while on visit Full Fact15:18Rishi Sunak Facebook Tory Leadership
Does the government’s Rwanda policy only impact ‘failed asylum seekers’? Full Fact17:17UK Supreme Court Rwanda UK/Rwanda
What was the Rwanda asylum policy and why did the Supreme Court rule it unlawful? Channel 412:08UK Supreme Court Rwanda UK/Rwanda
Debt is only projected to begin falling towards the end of the decade Full Fact15:18Autumn Statement National Debt Fact Check (World)
'We've halved inflation' and other claims by the PM checked BBC17:26Autumn Statement National Debt Fact Check (World)
How the BBC fact-checks celebrity deaths (and other prominent news stories) Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism12:16BBC Broadcasting Media
Video of building being blown up is not Gaza parliament Full Fact15:03Fact Check (World) World Conflicts Palestine
How the dead are counted in Gaza BBC05:14Fact Check (World) World Conflicts Palestine
Around 93,600 jobs are supported by the oil and gas industry in Scotland Full Fact17:06Rishi Sunak Scotland Tory Leadership
Myocarditis after Covid vaccines doesn’t kill one in five Full Fact15:39Coronavirus Vaccine UK Covid Vaccine Fact Check (World)
Covid-19 vaccines did not kill 30 people at one clinic in New Zealand Full Fact16:01Coronavirus Vaccine UK Covid Vaccine Fact Check (World)
Starbucks pledged to hire 10,000 refugees, not specifically Muslims Full Fact17:12Facebook World Conflicts Top Internet Brands
Was the UK the first country to send tanks to Ukraine? Full Fact14:56Rishi Sunak X (Twitter) Tory Leadership

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In the last half-hour
Hugo Keith Fact-Checks Hancock’s Lockdown Claims With His Own Book Guido Fawkes' Blog14:39
In the last 2 hours
Turpentine is not a treatment for sepsis—it is poisonous when swallowed Full Fact13:31
No graphene oxide in Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine Full Fact13:13
In the last 6 hours
How did the ‘Elgin marbles’ end up in the UK? The Ferret10:10
Yesterday
Gigi Hadid's father Mohamed defends her Instagram posts on Palestine - as model apologizes for… Mail Online20:29 29-Nov-23
Fact check: Did Jasprit Bumrah unfollowed Mumbai Indians on Instagram? The Cricket Times17:10 29-Nov-23
Gigi Hadid admits she failed to 'fact check' post about Israel torturing Palestinian kids The Mirror17:04 29-Nov-23
No evidence ‘IDF general killed in Hamas conflict’ exists Full Fact17:00 29-Nov-23
Prime Minister told to use side of hammer while on visit Full Fact15:18 29-Nov-23
Gigi Hadid backtracks on claims Israel is 'raping and torturing' Palestinians as she admits she … Mail Online05:51 29-Nov-23
In the last 7 days
Washington Post did not report that Ukraine supplies weapons to Hamas Full Fact17:46 28-Nov-23
Gigi Hadid apologises for 'not fact-checking' post about Palestinian children Metro.co.uk17:36 28-Nov-23
Widespread confusion over number of ‘people’ on NHS waiting lists Full Fact16:10 28-Nov-23
Images of armoured vehicles in Dublin are not from last week’s disturbance Full Fact15:24 28-Nov-23
Diesel generator not powering electric vehicle chargers at Welsh service station Full Fact14:33 28-Nov-23
Are experts worried about first UK ‘pig’ flu case? Channel 418:15 27-Nov-23
How Hamas built a force to attack Israel on 7 October BBC17:21 27-Nov-23
Starbucks pledged to hire 10,000 refugees, not specifically Muslims Full Fact17:12 27-Nov-23
How the BBC fact-checks celebrity deaths (and other prominent news stories) Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism12:16 27-Nov-23
Fact Check: Has LSG traded KL Rahul to RCB in exchange of Harshal Patel? Here’s the truth The Cricket Times08:05 26-Nov-23
How do online users respond to crowdsourced fact-checking? Nature.com04:45 25-Nov-23
Video of ‘anti-government’ rally in Warsaw mislabelled as pro-Palestine march Full Fact17:10 24-Nov-23
Adele filmed holding Mexican flag not Palestinian one Full Fact17:10 24-Nov-23
Debt is only projected to begin falling towards the end of the decade Full Fact15:18 24-Nov-23
Argos is not selling PlayStation 5 consoles for less than £2 Full Fact15:17 24-Nov-23
Eric Swalwell Fact-Checks 3 Republicans Over Bridge Crash Misinformation Yahoo! UK & Ireland11:55 24-Nov-23
Does the government’s Rwanda policy only impact ‘failed asylum seekers’? Full Fact17:17 23-Nov-23
Around 93,600 jobs are supported by the oil and gas industry in Scotland Full Fact17:06 23-Nov-23
Facebook posts show lagoon in Chile, not ‘blood red’ River Nile Full Fact15:22 23-Nov-23
Factcheck Farage: Everything Nigel Farage Has Said About Politics On I’m A Celebrity, Fact-Checked Grazia Daily14:53 23-Nov-23
Fact Check: Did Haris Rauf denied to play Test cricket? Here is the truth behind viral going… The Cricket Times07:54 23-Nov-23
In the last month
Footage does not show an Israeli police officer strangling a Palestinian child to death Full Fact17:10 22-Nov-23
Toby Carvery not offering free meal for two in return for Facebook likes Full Fact16:30 22-Nov-23
Myocarditis after Covid vaccines doesn’t kill one in five Full Fact15:39 22-Nov-23
Do early medical abortions fail 6% of the time? FactCheckNI13:34 22-Nov-23
FFS explains: Rwanda plan confusion The Ferret11:07 22-Nov-23
Videos show volcano erupting in Iceland in 2021 Full Fact17:26 21-Nov-23
38% of Universal Credit claimants are in work Full Fact17:19 21-Nov-23
Footage of ‘Palestinians faking injuries’ comes from film shoot in Lebanon Full Fact16:45 21-Nov-23
Video of building being blown up is not Gaza parliament Full Fact15:03 21-Nov-23
'We've halved inflation' and other claims by the PM checked BBC17:26 20-Nov-23
Around 6.5 million patients in England on hospital waiting lists Full Fact17:14 20-Nov-23
Covid-19 vaccines did not kill 30 people at one clinic in New Zealand Full Fact16:01 20-Nov-23
All speed cameras on the M1 and M25 are not about to ‘go live’ enforcing a 72mph limit Full Fact17:30 17-Nov-23
Claim Benjamin Netanyahu’s psychiatrist took his own life appears to come from a 2010 satirical … Full Fact17:20 17-Nov-23
Video does not show Israeli helicopter shooting civilians at Supernova music festival Full Fact17:10 17-Nov-23
Photo of man with swastika tattoo is actually from 2016 Full Fact15:57 17-Nov-23
Was the UK the first country to send tanks to Ukraine? Full Fact14:56 17-Nov-23
How to fact-check Google Images: Find out more about your search results Pocket Lint09:41 17-Nov-23
Deepfake video shows Keir Starmer promoting an investment scheme Full Fact17:27 16-Nov-23
Forbes magazine covers showing Hamas leaders are fake Full Fact17:17 16-Nov-23
Man in video with swastika tattoo is not IDF chief of staff Full Fact16:16 16-Nov-23
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Nasty Book Claims Met With A Swift Fact Check Yahoo! UK & Ireland14:39 16-Nov-23
What was the Rwanda asylum policy and why did the Supreme Court rule it unlawful? Channel 412:08 16-Nov-23
Do child refugees living in NI need a visa to access urgent care if they have heart problems? FactCheckNI11:00 16-Nov-23
How the dead are counted in Gaza BBC05:14 16-Nov-23
Fact-checking claims about asylum seekers BBC18:41 15-Nov-23
Instagram post lacks vital context about Covid deaths among the vaccinated Full Fact17:07 15-Nov-23
Barcodes don’t tell you where a product was made Full Fact15:00 15-Nov-23
Google snippets falsely claimed eating glass has health benefits Full Fact14:04 15-Nov-23
FactCheck: how can David Cameron be foreign secretary and not an MP? Channel 412:37 15-Nov-23
Will the chickenpox vaccine be available to all children on the NHS – and who is currently eligible? Channel 416:16 14-Nov-23
Claim Stephen Flynn held poppy wreath upside down is False The Ferret15:10 14-Nov-23
London’s white population did not go from 86% to 36% in ten years Full Fact11:53 14-Nov-23
New session of Parliament: live blog Full Fact11:33 14-Nov-23
How has UK aid spending for Palestinians changed in recent years? Full Fact16:54 13-Nov-23
Stephen Flynn critics left red-faced over 'upside down' poppy wreath claim The National, Scotland13:19 13-Nov-23
No evidence clip of Sadiq Khan supposedly calling for ‘Remembrance weekend’ to be postponed is… Full Fact18:49 10-Nov-23
A YouGov poll found 41% think London protest rules are ‘too relaxed’ Full Fact17:48 10-Nov-23
Suella Bravermen did not use parliamentary expenses to pay her parents’ energy bills Full Fact17:44 10-Nov-23
Facebook has not banned the Lord’s Prayer Full Fact17:13 10-Nov-23
CCTV footage of hospital explosion is from Syria in 2016, not Gaza Full Fact16:53 10-Nov-23
Why was some media coverage of fireworks night misleading? The Ferret14:49 10-Nov-23
English maternity services rated worse on safety specifically than overall Full Fact12:43 10-Nov-23
It’s time political parties tidied up their election campaigns Full Fact11:40 10-Nov-23
Smoking causes about one in four deaths from cancer Full Fact17:42 9-Nov-23
For Fact’s Sake podcast: Who is ‘Argentina’s Donald Trump’? The Ferret17:13 9-Nov-23
Prime Minister wrong to say UK’s debt ‘is falling’ Full Fact16:44 9-Nov-23
Wes Streeting wrong to say a million more patients waiting than a year ago Full Fact15:30 9-Nov-23
People dig deeper to fact-check social media posts when paired with someone who doesn't share their perspective – new… The Conversation (UK)13:49 9-Nov-23
How are people fleeing the fighting in northern Gaza? BBC21:32 8-Nov-23
Did the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement lead to comfort letters for the ‘On The Runs’? FactCheckNI19:04 8-Nov-23
Aerial footage shows a bombing in Sudan, not Gaza Full Fact17:26 8-Nov-23
Video does not show Croatian mayor slapping ‘Hamas supporter’ Full Fact16:25 8-Nov-23
Video of fireworks accident is not linked to the Israel-Gaza conflict Full Fact07:57 8-Nov-23
RMIT’s fact check reinstated by Facebook two months after suspension over News Corp voice… Yahoo! UK & Ireland02:08 8-Nov-23
Turmeric honey isn’t the “most powerful” antibiotic Full Fact17:43 7-Nov-23
Video does not show Palestinians pretending to be dead Full Fact16:15 7-Nov-23
Lee Anderson claim about Labour migrants ‘deal’ appears to be based on unreliable Conservative… Full Fact15:32 7-Nov-23
More than one Downing Street pandemic press conference was led by a female politician Full Fact13:52 7-Nov-23
Are patients in Wales twice as likely to be on an NHS waiting list as those in England? Full Fact13:30 7-Nov-23
Old warning about a 2005 Christmas ‘scam’ circulating online again Full Fact11:27 7-Nov-23
LDR reporter quits role to join fact-checking website HoldtheFrontPage07:53 7-Nov-23
Fact-checking TikTok’s claims on Antisemitism Center for Countering Digital Hate19:28 6-Nov-23
Video shows Iraqi MP describing actions of Islamic State, not Hamas Full Fact15:31 6-Nov-23
Health secretary to correct the record over maternity programme numbers Full Fact15:28 3-Nov-23
What’s going on with Scottish Government Covid-19 WhatsApps? The Ferret12:03 3-Nov-23
No evidence London Underground driver said ‘jihad’ over tannoy Full Fact11:12 3-Nov-23
World Economic Forum does not have diplomatic immunity in Switzerland Full Fact17:17 2-Nov-23
‘Get Covid and live longer’? Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp at Covid Inquiry fact checked Full Fact16:57 2-Nov-23
No evidence for TikTok video’s claims about Palestinians’ life expectancy and BBC coverage Full Fact11:12 2-Nov-23
The Covid vaccines are not ‘poison’ Full Fact17:12 1-Nov-23
False claims that Great Western Railway is giving away a year’s free travel for £1.69 spread… Full Fact17:02 1-Nov-23
Driving a vehicle with an upside down registration plate is illegal Full Fact16:42 1-Nov-23
Strikes on south Gaza: BBC verifies attacks in areas of ‘safety’ BBC00:33 1-Nov-23
‘Dead Gazan body miraculously texting’ is actually Thai child in Halloween costume Full Fact17:00 31-Oct-23
Experts warn against ‘recycling’ Halloween pumpkins in woodlands Full Fact16:39 31-Oct-23
Video does not show pro-Palestinian protest in France Full Fact16:29 31-Oct-23
Faked video of Bella Hadid circulates on social media Full Fact16:19 31-Oct-23
Three Parliamentary constituencies have majority Muslim populations, not 30 Full Fact15:15 31-Oct-23
Claim freeports in Scotland will allow fracking is Unsupported The Ferret12:01 31-Oct-23
Fluoride levels in toothpaste aren’t toxic Full Fact11:44 31-Oct-23
Blue and white McDonald’s food wrappers not connected to current Israel-Gaza conflict Full Fact17:36 30-Oct-23
Images of a ‘Palestinian girl’ being rescued were taken in Syria in 2016 Full Fact16:45 30-Oct-23
Onion skins aren’t effective treatments for prostatitis or UTIs Full Fact15:35 30-Oct-23
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