Does a video show former One Direction singer Liam Payne falling to his death in Argentina? No, that's not true: The video is of another person escaping a fire. It was taken in Mexico in 2023, before Payne's death. The claim appeared in a
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Full Fact→ Video of man falling from window is unrelated to Liam Payne’s death
The video is from a 2023 fire in Mexico City.
Full Fact→ Crime statistics explained – is it rising or falling?
A guide to how crime statistics for England and Wales are presented, and why the question of whether crime is rising or falling can be hard to answer.
Full Fact→ NHS waiting list was not falling before the pandemic
Oliver Dowden said that the numbers waiting for elective care in England were falling ‘on many measures’ before the pandemic. We’re not sure which measures he means. On the main measure, they were not
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Of Palestinian Man Falling In A Street Is NOT ‘Theater’ From Gaza In 2023 — It Was Shot In Hebron In 2015; There’s NO Evidence Man Was Faking Injuries
Does a video of a man collapsing in the street prove that his fall was staged for pro-Hamas propaganda and that it happened in Gaza in 2023? No, that's not true: The footage predates the 2023 Hamas-Israel war. Contrary to online speculati
Full Fact→ Debt is only projected to begin falling towards the end of the decade
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s claim that the government is “delivering” on the pledge to get debt falling is only correct when looking at longer-term projections.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Gavin Newsom Falling Down Steps While Deplaning — It’s 2014 Footage Of Tommy Tuberville
Does a video show California's governor, Gavin Newsom, falling down the steps while deplaning? No, that's not true: According to the person who first posted it, the footage, filmed in 2014, shows Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who at that time wa
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Video doesn’t show President Joe Biden falling down plane stairs in Poland
Video shows President Joe Biden falling “on the plane stairs shortly after landing in Poland.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Joe Biden Falling Down Air Force One Stairs While Visiting Poland — It’s Another Person
Did a video genuinely show President Joe Biden falling down Air Force One stairs while visiting Warsaw, Poland? No, that's not true: The video showed an unidentified person falling down the airplane stairs, but Lead Stories reviewed indep
Full Fact→ Prime Minister wrong to say UK’s debt ‘is falling’
The latest data for both of the main measures of the UK’s national debt shows it has increased over the last year.
Full Fact→ Is the asylum backlog ‘falling rapidly’?
We’ve looked at the figures after immigration minister Robert Jenrick made this claim on Sky News.
Full Fact→ The number of prison escapes has been falling since the 1990s
We looked into the figures after the PM claimed prison escapes were 10 times higher under the last Labour government.
Full Fact→ Sky News article wrongly claims falling inflation figures mean decline in checkout costs
It’s not necessarily the case that lower inflation means things cost less than before. Kantar’s data shows prices are still rising, but less steeply than previously.
Logically→ Edited video of man falling into pothole and disappearing shared as real
Logically→ Video of tree falling over three men riding a two-wheeler not of cyclone Biparjoy’s impact
The Dispatch→ Falling Hemlines and Rising Inflation
A 2009 Royal Mail stamp shows British fashion designer Mary Quant wearing her Banana Split dress. (Photo by Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images.)Examining the accuracy of the ‘hemline index.’Continue reading Falling Hemlines and Rising Inflation »
Full Fact→ Are GP numbers rising or falling?
Earlier this month the PM claimed there are now a “record number” of GPs, while the Liberal Democrats say the number’s down since the last election.
Full Fact→ Video doesn’t show Joe Biden falling down stairs of Air Force One in Poland
A White House spokesperson confirmed that the person filmed falling was not the US President.
Logically→ Adani Group is being targeted since there are no calls for a Joint Parliamentary Committee into Wipro despite its share price falling by 45 percent.
Adani Group's share price fell abruptly due to fraud allegations, which prompted demands for a JPC investigation. Wipro's share price fell gradually.
The Dispatch→ Falling in Line, Not in Love
President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address. (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin/Getty Images.)How outraged right-wingers actually boost support for Biden.The post Falling in Line, Not in Love appeared first on The Dispatch.
Logically→ A video from the 2023 Indonesia earthquake shows hikers falling.
A September 2022 video from Taiwan has been misattributed to be of the 2023 Indonesia earthquake.
Snopes→ Scholar: As Russia Enlists Hundreds of Thousands of Men to Fight Ukraine, Public Support for Putin is Falling
Arik Burakovsky, a scholar of Russia and public opinion, says public approval of the president and the assault on Ukraine is shifting.
Snopes→ WHO: New COVID Cases, Deaths Keep Falling Nearly Everywhere
The U.N. health agency said there were 4.5 million new COVID-19 cases reported last week, a 16% drop from the previous week.
Snopes→ Falling Screen Hits 2 Dancers on Stage at Hong Kong Concert
A falling video screen struck and injured two dancers on the concert stage as Cantopop band Mirror was performing in Hong Kong.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Spiderman’s ‘Tom Hollard’ Did NOT Die By Tripping, Falling Into Well And Freezing To Death
Did Spiderman's "Tom Hollard" die by tripping and falling into a well, then freezing to death? No, that's not true: The social media post making this claim misspelled Tom Holland's name when posting the clearly fake announcement. There ha
Truth or Fiction?→ Mysterious Black Liquid Falling in Las Vegas
On February 10 2022 an Imgur user shared a screenshot of the following tweet about a “mysterious black liquid” that had reportedly been falling from the sky in Las Vegas: A mysterious black liquid has been falling on people in East Las V
Snopes→ SpaceX Satellites Falling out of Orbit After Solar Storm
Up to 40 of the 49 small satellites launched last week have either reentered the atmosphere and burned up, or are on the verge of doing so.
Full Fact→ Is income inequality falling?
“If we look at the statistics, we see that economic inequality is down in this country.”Boris Johnson, Boris Johnson, 5 January 2021. At Prime Minister’s Questions, Boris Johnson claimed economic inequality is falling. However, the d
Full Fact→ Falling crime is related to pandemic lockdowns
“Crime has been falling, and not just, by the way, because we took the precaution of locking up the public for much of the last 18 months, but because you have a Conservative government that understands the broken windows theory of fighting crim
Snopes→ Does Video Show Joe Biden Falling Asleep in Meeting with Israeli PM?
The "Sleepy Joe" nickname made a comeback thanks to a viral video.
Full Fact→ Video of people falling from plane in Kabul shows a US aircraft
This article links to footage that is potentially distressing. A video with a misleading caption claiming to show the Taliban throwing people from a plane in Afghanistan has been seen more than 50,000 times on Instagram. The distressing footage actuall
Snopes→ Soccer Player, Zaki Anwari, Died Falling From Plane Departing Kabul
The teenager had played for Afghanistan’s national youth team.
Snopes→ Falling Short: Why the White House Will Miss Its Vax Target
With the July Fourth holiday approaching, the White House acknowledged this week that Biden will fall shy of his 70% goal and an associated aim of fully vaccinating 165 million adults in the same time frame.
Snopes→ ‘Even When the Sky Comes Falling’ TikTok Singer Found
One of the most popular songs that has appeared in TikTok videos has an original creator who never quite got the credit due her.
Snopes→ Why Has the Price of Bitcoin Been Falling?
Bitcoin has lost about 40% of its value since April 13, when it hit a high of more than $64,606 per coin.
Snopes→ Is a Chinese Rocket Falling to Earth, and ‘No One Knows’ Where It Will Crash?
An astrophysicist said the landing could "be the equivalent of a small plane crash scattered over 100 miles."
AFP Fact Check→ Image from 2018 shows girls in Tanzania who were expelled from school for falling pregnant
A photo has been shared on Facebook alongside a claim that it shows students in Uganda returning to class after a Covid-19 shutdown. This is false: the girls in the photograph, taken in Tanzania in 2018, were expelled from school for falling pregnan
Snopes→ Does Video Show a Chunk of the White Cliffs of Dover Falling Into the Sea?
Coastal erosion had its moment in the spotlight in early February 2021.
AFP Fact Check→ This video shows Indonesian students falling ill after being vaccinated for diphtheria in 2018
A video viewed tens of thousands of times on Facebook, YouTube and TikTok purports to show people fainting after receiving Covid-19 vaccines in Indonesia. The claim is false: the video in fact shows students getting sick after receiving diphtheria v
Snopes→ Christmas in Florida: Chilly Forecast, Falling Iguanas
With unexpectedly cold weather in the forecast and pandemic-related curfews in some places, Florida is about to have a Christmas unlike any other in recent memory, and it may involve falling iguanas.