Margarine is not “one molecule away” from plastic and it doesn’t share 27 ingredients with paint. This false claim has been ...

An image shared on social media with claims it shows a list of patent numbers for viruses such as H1N1 flu, Zika virus and ...

False. Argos has confirmed that this is not a real offer. We’ve seen at least two posts on Facebook claiming that Argos is selling Apple iPhone 15s for £2 each as part of a promotion that “not many ...

A post on Facebook claims that billionaire Elon Musk has endorsed a space heating device that allegedly reduces heating costs by 90%. But we could find no evidence that this is a genuine endorsement ...

Voters can force a by-election to get rid of their MP at any time during a term of office. A recall petition against a sitting MP can only be triggered if one of three specific conditions are met.

Apsana Begum MP wrote an opinion article for the Guardian headlined “Gaza will rise from the ashes to become a city of the future to rival Bradford”. This is false. No such article has appeared in the ...

A claim has recently circulated online falsely suggesting that humans cannot “catch” viruses because “they don’t exist”. The ...

A video of Albert Bourla speaking has been edited to make it sound as if Pfizer wants to depopulate the world.

Almost 2,000 people have shared a post suggesting there is a plot to lower the “population’s vitality” by hiding citric acid ...

Disney, Marvel, IBM, Comcast, Warner Bros., Lionsgate, Paramount, Sony Pictures, CBS and The Colbert Show have stopped posting on the social media platform X. This is mostly incorrect. All but three ...

This is incorrect. The data does not show how many times the petition has been signed with MPs’ names, but how many times it has been signed by people recorded as living in those MPs’ constituencies.