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 ...

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 ...

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’ ...

This explainer is part of a series Full Fact is publishing exploring a range of topics. We’ll be updating these articles on a regular basis—this article was last updated on 14 July 2026 and the ...

Andy Burnham has confirmed that his government will not be introducing a digital ID scheme. The original plans for the new digital ID to be mandatory for right to work checks had already been reversed ...

This should be accompanied by a wider reform agenda to tackle misinformation and disinformation and to improve the information environment, including: The OSA created a new duty for online platforms ...

Jamie Varley, who was convicted of murdering and sexually abusing the baby boy he was adopting, Preston Davey, has been stabbed in prison. Our verdict False. The Ministry of Justice has confirmed that ...

No it doesn’t. Sunscreen lowers the risk of skin cancer. But people who use more of it may well be exposed to more sunlight too. A number of social media posts are wrongly claiming that using ...