A video of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni saying "we won’t allow Sharia law to be implemented in Italy" circulating ...

A report from the Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe claimed that it is established that 250,000 white girls have been the victims of rape gangs—but the calculation behind this is clearly unreliable.

Posts circulating on Facebook incorrectly claim police say you will not be charged for this so long as you’ve taken photos at ...

A Facebook video with more than 10,000 likes falsely suggests autism is caused by vaccines, and that a vaccine programme ...

False. This clip predates Ms Widdecombe’s recent death and shows Mr Farage walking in Clacton-on-Sea in July 2024. A clip of Reform UK’s leader Nigel Farage is circulating on social media with false ...

Claims that a Covid-19 patient interviewed by BBC News during the pandemic was actually a “crisis actor” have been shared on social media for years—but this isn’t true.

What does the pledge mean? Labour’s manifesto pledges to “fix an additional one million potholes across England in each year of the next parliament”. This pledge appears quite specific—it gives a ...

An old video of a fire in the UAE is circulating online again, this time with false claims it shows the aftermath of a recent Iranian attack on energy infrastructure in Israel. A video showing a ...

As part of a series of “milestones” set out in its “Plan For Change” launched on 5 December 2024, the government pledged to deliver “higher living standards in every part of the United Kingdom by the ...

Leo joined Full Fact in January 2020. For 15 years, he worked freelance as a feature writer for the Guardian, Prospect, the New Scientist and others, making maps of immigration, explaining citizens’ ...

What does the pledge mean? Labour’s manifesto pledged to create a “new specific offence” for assaults on shop workers. Assaults of retail staff in their workplace can already be prosecuted in a ...

Value Added Tax (VAT) is paid on most products and services sold by VAT-registered businesses. Businesses with a total taxable turnover of more than £90,000 must register for VAT. Most goods and ...