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Pat McFadden’s claim that the current employment rate is higher than in “every year but one” under the Conservatives is incorrect, according to analysis of ONS data by Full Fact which disputes that specific comparative assertion.
Footage circulating online showing a woman dragged by uniformed men is from a recent Kyiv protest against tree felling for a heating pipeline, not evidence of forced conscription in Ukraine, according to a Full Fact verification.
Full Fact counters Labour MP Oliver Ryan’s claim that there were "0 boats before Brexit", showing small boat crossings predate the UK’s EU departure and that the MP’s statement is inaccurate.
Full Fact warns a compilation video showing Volodymyr Zelenskyy belly dancing includes two AI-generated deepfakes alongside one genuine clip from his acting career, emphasising misattribution and synthetic media risks.
A widely shared clip claiming to show a missile strike on an aeroplane at Riyadh’s international airport is fake; Full Fact says the video was generated using AI and does not show a real recent attack.
A viral video claiming Bill Gates warned of one billion deaths by 2027 from water shortages is a deepfake; Full Fact debunks the clip and warns about AI‑generated misinformation.
Full Fact warns that AI‑generated footage and an older video of Dubai airport have been circulated online alongside false claims they show recent attacks on Riyadh airport, highlighting misinformation risks around the incident.
Nearly a quarter of the items Full Fact checks are now AI-generated false content. The piece flags rising prevalence but questions how many of these AI fakes actually produce measurable harm to people or public discourse.
Full Fact says a minister repeated an incorrect claim about Labour’s record on asylum hotels, identifying factual errors in the minister’s assertion about past government policy or numbers around asylum accommodation.
Full Fact reports South Yorkshire Police say there is no evidence linking the Rotherham explosion death to an 'attempted terror attack'; counter‑terrorism officers are not involved and no crime evidence has been found.
An image widely shared on social media after a man was killed by a tiger is not genuine; Full Fact finds the picture was created using AI and is being circulated as if it were real.
An old video of an Israeli basketball player on a plane circulating online is unrelated to the recent Flydubai incident; the footage predates the event and has been misattributed in social posts.
Full Fact says the Conservatives, not Labour, extended the Energy Profits Levy to 2028; a Conservative government made the first extension and announced the later extension to 2029.
Full Fact finds no evidence the prime minister is creating an ‘Emergency Register’ of civilians fit to fight; the Liberal Democrats’ separate Civil Volunteer Reserve proposal is not government policy and does not imply mandatory registration.
Full Fact checks a claim from the health secretary that Reform’s only health policy in the 2024 election was a tax break for private healthcare, finding Reform’s manifesto actually included several health policies.
A widely shared clip purporting to show an ‘asylum seeker’ asking for “more money and more freedom” is AI-generated; the video contains a SynthID watermark indicating it was produced with Google’s AI tools.
The Department for Transport’s figure counts free bus journeys, not individual children; the scheme cannot have been used by ‘over 14.5 million children’ because only about 7.5 million children in England are the eligible age cohort.
A compilation video purporting to show ‘US strikes on Iran’ mixes fake material with older footage from across the Middle East, including clips filmed in Lebanon and Gaza, according to Full Fact’s verification.
A viral video was edited to splice together clips from Barack Obama, altering the meaning of his remarks; the fact check identifies the manipulation and explains how the edit misrepresents his views on democratic ideals.
A viral clip showing a ‘corpse’ rising during sirens was filmed as a staged funeral procession in 2020, reportedly in Jordan, and has been wrongly shared as footage from Gaza, Full Fact reports after verification.
Fact check of claims made by Prime Minister Andy Burnham in his first Labour Party conference keynote in Liverpool, assessing accuracy across several statements from his speech and identifying where assertions are misleading or unsupported.
A clip of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese falling off a stage has been confirmed by Full Fact to be AI-generated, showing the original video was digitally altered.
Full Fact confirms a 2020 video of a market fire in the United Arab Emirates has been reshared online as though it showed a recent strike on Israel, correcting the misleading context around the clip.
A viral video claiming Elon Musk warned over a billion people could die by 2030 from water shortages is a deepfake; the clip uses AI to fabricate his remarks.
A viral video that appears to show a large pro‑Palestine march in the UK is AI‑generated; both audio and visuals contain Google’s SynthID watermark, indicating the footage is fabricated.
Explains how the UK’s ‘tax burden’ is measured and tracks changes over time, focusing on how much tax is paid on workers’ earnings and how the UK compares historically and with other countries ahead of the Budget.
Fact‑check rebuts resurfaced claims that Covid vaccines tripled cancer and miscarriage rates, explaining the inaccuracies and evidence showing no such increases attributable to vaccination.
A purported BBC News clip linking an Indian passenger to the Flydubai attack has been confirmed as a deepfake; the BBC told Full Fact the footage is not genuine.
A viral video claimed to show the Flydubai incident is misattributed: visuals are from a different flight over Dubai and the audio derives from a separate 2022 turbulence clip, not the reported attack footage.
Social media claims that Covid vaccines cause a surge of aggressive ‘turbo cancers’ are unfounded; Full Fact says there is no evidence linking Covid vaccination to such cancers.