A video viewed over 1.7 million times appears to show an interview with two Muslim women saying people shouldn’t bring dogs to the beach.
It’s generated a huge amount of negative engagement and comments, but it’s fake. It’s been created with AI.
A video that appears to show the Australian border force pointing a weapon at a small boat has been shared 3,000 times online.
It’s one of several similar fake videos that were made using artificial intelligence.
We’ve spotted several almost identically-worded social media posts claiming 460 masked rioters recently stormed migrant hotels in Rotherham and Tamworth.
But this isn’t true. South Yorkshire and Staffordshire police forces confirmed this didn’t happen.
A real image posted by Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin on the campaign trail has been edited by social media users to change the supporters behind her.
The edited image has a SynthID watermark, indicating it was manipulated with Google AI tools.
We’re grateful to Plaid Cymru for removing an inaccurate claim made on social media by one of its candidates about youth unemployment in Wales after we got in touch.
Yesterday we published a fact check about an incorrect claim made by Conservative MP Esther McVey about knife crime in London.
We're grateful to the Express for correcting Ms McVey's article after contact from Full Fact.
Both the leader of the Scottish Lib Dems and Scottish Labour have claimed 800,000 Scots are on NHS waiting lists.
But this figure refers to the number of waits for certain appointments, not the total number of individuals waiting for treatment.
A video posted on X, and a Facebook post sharing stills from the clip, are captioned: “BREAKING NEWS IRAN has blown up the Haifa power plant with a ballistic missile. With the destruction of this 828 MW power plant, half of Israel is living in darkness.” But these photos and videos were not taken in Israel. They match footage shared on YouTube on 18 November 2015 with captions referring to an incident in China. False label overlay.
Videos and stills of an explosion have been shared online with claims they show an Iranian attack on a power plant in Haifa, Israel.
While there were reports of a missile damaging an oil refinery in the area, this footage is actually from China in 2015. fullfact.org/conflict/mis...
A Plaid Cymru Senedd candidate claimed “one in six” young people in Wales are “unemployed”.
Our fact check explains why based on the latest figures that’s not quite right.
Conservative MP Esther McVey claimed last week that knife crime in London “is up 72% in a year”.
That figure’s not correct, according to police statistics on knife-enabled crime, and we’ve not found any data to support it.
A picture circulating online with claims it shows the aftermath of an attack on a US base in Kuwait is fake.
The image doesn't match the layout of US military bases in Kuwait and contains a watermark indicating it was made using AI.
Some social media users have shared a post claiming Liz Truss blamed an “underground transgender mafia” for a recent chocolate heist, apparently believing it to be genuine.
But the post originated as satire and there’s no evidence she ever said this.
Our explainer on Reform UK’s council tax promises was cited by BBC News. We’re glad to see our work included, but we want to be clear that our article was verifying the party’s claim, rather than producing the figures ourselves.
✅ CORRECTION SECURED. Last week we spotted something in a Sky News report mentioning the Geneva Convention which wasn’t quite right - great to see this corrected after @fullfact.org got in touch.
Details here: fullfact.org/conflict/sky...
A Daily Express column earlier this month claimed UK youth unemployment is “the highest in Europe”.
That isn’t quite right. While the UK’s rate is higher than the EU average, several individual European countries have higher rates.
There were reports last week of Iranians forming human chains around power plants after Donald Trump threatened to attack infrastructure. But a widely shared image apparently showing people surrounding the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant isn’t real.
A widely shared compilation video claiming to show destruction in Tel Aviv features old clips from Gaza and the 2023 earthquake in Turkey.
A post seen hundreds of thousands of times on social media claims to show a photo of the moon's Orientale Basin taken by the Artemis II crew.
But this image is fake and was almost certainly generated by AI.
A recent Sky News article claimed the US was not a signatory to “the Geneva Convention”.
This isn’t quite right. The US signed and ratified the four Conventions of 1949 and Protocol III of 2005. It signed but didn’t ratify Protocols I and II of 1977.
A fake picture of Earth supposedly taken from the Artemis II mission has been shared widely online.
This image contains a watermark indicating it was almost certainly AI-generated, and it doesn’t match genuine pictures released by NASA from the lunar fly-by.
Did Reform UK say they’d cut council tax?
How does their record compare to other parties’?
We’ve looked at what Nigel Farage and his party promised during last year’s local elections, and what’s happened with council tax in the areas it now controls.
A video is being shared on social media alongside false claims which incorrectly suggest it shows Iran capturing an American tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.
But the footage is actually from July 2019 and shows the seizure of a British-flagged vessel.
UPDATE: Since this blog was published, TikTok has acknowledged the error and confirmed that the video has been reinstated. We’re glad to report this outcome.
A Facebook post falsely claims Katie Hopkins confronted Muslim MPs during a speech in the House of Commons.
There’s no record of this in Hansard and images supposedly showing the scene are AI-generated.
Full Fact reader Sandy saw what looked like an amazing deal from Wickes on Facebook - then realised it was bogus when her bank alerted her to unexpected transactions.
She told us how falling for a fake garden seeds offer almost cost her over £500 👇
We’ve spotted posts circulating on social media claiming that Cadbury is selling a chocolate box that says “Eid Mubarak”.
A Cadbury spokesperson confirmed this isn't a real product from them. The box pictured is actually sold by an independent gift seller on eBay.
False rumours have spread that a historic hotel in Plymouth had closed for refurbishment to house asylum seekers. This has been confirmed as fake by both the hotel and Plymouth City Council.
As we mark #InternationalFactCheckingDay, our latest blog explores our recent experience with TikTok's automated moderation systems. The takeaway: nuanced decisions still need human judgement.
