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 suggested the elections have been cancelled “till 2027” or are set to be cancelled “for the first time since World War II”.. The claims are based on the news that some councils in England have asked …
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 appears to have been altered using artificial intelligence (AI). The video starts with footage of what is supposedly Mr Starmer talking directly to the camera before showing a montage of different …
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 this is important, and we want to play a role in holding his government to account.
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 that it urgently do so.. Mr Starmer claimed that there had been a “23% increase” in returns of people without a right to be in the UK since Labour was elected, compared to the previous summer.
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 content—here.For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as false because Bovaer has been deemed safe by the Food Standards Agency and other food safety authorities in the …
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 content—here.For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as missing context because these two ‘black hole’ figures refer to two different things and are not directly …
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 of diversity.” This refers to the widespread decades-long sexual abuse of young girls which took place in the South Yorkshire town, where the majority of known perpetrators were men of …
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 a child rescued by a police officer in Hartlepool. But our checks revealed that neither were genuine appeals, helping to warn people against sharing them any further.
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 conducted by the Treasury following the general election had found that the new government had “inherited a projected overspend of £22 billion”. She described this as a “£22 billion hole in the public …