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A video is being shared online with claims it shows Iran’s attack on a US airbase in Qatar—but it isn’t real, and was ...
The picture seems to be a photograph of several police officers kneeling as though in prayer in front of a group of men in Islamic dress. A caption on the image, and in the posts sharing it, says: ...
Claims about the footage that circulated widely on social media after it was posted last week are false—and here’s how we ...
A clip is circulating on social media with claims it shows “Muslim migrants” in a cemetery in Ireland, but the footage was ...
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 content— here. For the ...
Our verdict There were 4.2 million more appointments between July 2024 and March 2025 than in the same period a year previously, so for now we’re rating this as “achieved”, though there’s some ...
The Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA) is due to be implemented by no later than 25th July 2025.
What do we know about the Israel-Iran ceasefire timeline, and what happens next? A ceasefire between Iran and Israel announced by US President Donald Trump on Monday evening appears to be holding, ...
Full Fact has been a proud contributor to the Third Party Fact Checking initiative. Since January 2019 we’ve checked 2,596 cases of misleading, faked, or potentially harmful posts on Meta platforms.
Is Labour right to claim Reform UK would ‘scrap the NHS’? In the run-up to the local elections, Labour is warning Reform UK would make people pay to use the health service—a claim the party’s strongly ...
Fact checks, commentary and analysis about Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, leader of the UK Labour Party and Member of Parliament for Holborn and St Pancras.
No evidence Donald Trump called Elon Musk ‘mediocre’ on Truth Social A screenshot supposedly showing a post from the US president about Mr Musk has been shared on social media, but the White House ...