Posts online falsely claim a video shows US military equipment “given” to the Taliban when it withdrew from Afghanistan.

We’ve crunched the numbers after a claim on the Today programme from former Labour cabinet minister Alan Johnson.

Posts shared thousands of times on social media claim the PM is going to “means test” pensions. But there’s no evidence this ...

A post circulating on social media falsely claims that there are 1.6 million asylum seekers receiving “long term benefits”.

On the steps of Downing Street on 5 July, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer promised a mission of national renewal that would turn the page on decades of plummeting trust in politics and public service.

This is not a real offer, as confirmed by an Amazon spokesperson. A post on Facebook falsely claims that Amazon has decided to “g͏i͏f͏t͏ i͏P͏a͏d͏ 1͏1͏s͏ to everyone over the age of 25”. The full text ...

This isn’t what it shows. The video shows an arrest for alleged offences against a cat. The woman in the video was born in the US, and it was filmed in Canton—a different town in Ohio. She has pleaded ...

This needs more context. It’s not entirely clear what “decision” the claim refers to, and former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak did reportedly reject proposals to extend an early release scheme before the ...

CNN has reported that Kamala Harris has told Democrats they need to have the ‘updated covid shot’ in order to vote in the November presidential election. This isn’t true. The screenshot of the article ...

Energy secretary Ed Miliband wrote an opinion article for the Guardian headlined “Our GB Energy will become the envy of the world just like our NHS”. This is false. No such article has appeared in the ...