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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Tractors In Photo Were NOT On Beach Blocking Migrant Boats From Landing In UK — Protest Was In France
Does a photo show tractors lined up to block boats of migrants from landing at the port of Dover in the U.K.? No, that's not true: The photo on social media shows a protest on January 26, 2024, at a French seaside resort where President E
Internet Archive→ Campaign 2024 Vice President Harris Campaigns in Milwaukee : CSPAN : July 24, 2024 3:07am-3:27am EDT
"Donald Trump wants to take us backwards" Vice President Kamala Harris told supporters at her first campaign event since becoming the Democratic front runner for the party's presidential nomination. The vice president categorized her campaign as a gras
Full Fact→ No evidence comments on Islam and Ukraine attributed to Donald Trump are real
A misleading caption is being shared on social media with a video clip of the former president, implying he made the comments in his Republican convention speech.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Kamala Harris Said ‘Ukraine Is A Country In Europe’ In Explaining Geopolitics In Layman’s Terms As Asked To By Podcaster
Did Kamala Harris' simplistic explanations of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on a podcast demonstrate she has a limited understanding of geopolitics? No, that's not true: This claim leaves out key context. Her answer was in response to the
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump fact-check: 2024 RNC speech in Milwaukee full of falsehoods about immigrants, economy
On the fourth and final night of the Republican National Convention, we fact-checked the slate of speakers, including former President Donald Trump.
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump Jr. – Trump Jr. mostly right on story about Teddy Roosevelt getting shot in Milwaukee
After being shot at a Milwaukee rally in 1912, former President Teddy Roosevelt “finished his speech and he kept fighting.”
PolitiFact→ 2024 RNC fact-check: What Trump VP pick J.D. Vance got right, wrong in Milwaukee speech
We fact-checked Trump VP pick J.D. Vance in his Milwaukee speech at the Republican National Convention.
PolitiFact→ Live: Fact-checking Trump VP J.D. Vance’s 2024 RNC speech in Milwaukee
PolitiFact will live fact-check the third night of the 2024 Republican National Convention, featuring former President Donald Trump’s newly-announced running mate Sen. J.D. Vance.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer Watching Euro Cup With US Secretary Of State Antony Blinken
Does a video show British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken watching England score against The Netherlands in the Euro Cup? No, that's not true: While Starmer is in this video, he is watching the game
Full Fact→ UK defence spending: explained
A guide to what we currently spend on defence, how that could change in future and how spending compares historically and internationally.
Full Fact→ Reform UK candidate who stood in London was not ‘AI-generated’
Claims the party’s candidate for Clapham and Brixton Hill may not be real spread widely on social media, but have been debunked.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Posts falsely blame Ukraine for a missile strike on Kyiv children’s hospital
After Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital was struck as part of a daytime barrage that saw dozens of Russian missiles target five Ukrainian cities, posts circulated social media falsely claiming that Ukraine was at fault for the hit.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, Ukraine’s first lady didn’t buy a $4 million luxury sports car in Paris
"President Zelenskyy’s wife orders 4 million dollar Bugatti” in Paris with U.S. tax money.
PolitiFact→ Tom Cotton – What Sen. Tom Cotton omits in claim about weapons sent to Ukraine by Obama, Trump, Biden
“The weapons that Ukraine used in the early days of this war to fend off the Russian invasion are the weapons that Donald Trump sent, that Barack Obama and Joe Biden had refused to send.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: UK PM Rishi Sunak Did NOT Announce Plans To Give British Citizens £75,000 To Leave UK
Did Rishi Sunak, prime minister of the U.K. and leader of the Conservative Party, state that there are plans in place to pay citizens £75,000 to leave the country? No, that's not true: Neither Sunak nor the Tories as a whole have propose
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: UK’s King Charles III Was NOT Dead As Of June 26, 2024
Did the U.K.'s King Charles III die on or before June 24, 2024 as a post on Facebook claimed? No, that's not true: As of this writing on June 26, 2024, the king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and head of the
The Dispatch→ Ukraine Begins Talks to Join European Union
The negotiations come as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is making a diplomatic push for international support.
The Dispatch→ Our Best Stuff on Trump’s Tariff Proposal, Ukraine, and Israel
Plus: In search of ‘radical candor.’
Full Fact→ No evidence Rishi Sunak plans to pay people £75,000 to leave the UK
This claim is being shared widely on TikTok, but appears to have come from a parody account.
Full Fact→ ONS figures don’t show 14 million people will arrive in the UK ‘in the next 12 years’
The ONS actually projects that 10.4 million will immigrate to the UK between this year and mid-2036.
The Dispatch→ In Ukraine, ‘We Know Why We Fight’
The Ukrainian army is stymying a Russian offensive in Kharkiv.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: UK Law Does NOT Specifically Say People Can Be Fined For Flying Flag Of England On Their Vehicles — It Potentially Applies To All Flags
Under U.K. law, can people be fined £1,000 specifically for flying the flag of England, also known as St. George's Cross, on a vehicle? No, that's not true: The law only imposes fines for flags that violate specific regulations regarding
Full Fact→ The AI Election: How Full Fact is Leveraging New Technology for UK General Election Fact Checking
Explore how Full Fact is pioneering the positive use of AI in fact-checking amidst concerns about deepfakes and targeted political ads in the 2024 UK general election.
Full Fact→ Reform UK 2024 manifesto: fact checked
Discover our latest fact checks of claims made in the Reform UK manifesto.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: U.S. Spokesperson Did NOT Justify Ukrainian Strikes On Belgorod, Russia Saying It Holds ‘Virtually No Civilians’ — Video Is AI Fake
Does a 50-second video show authentic remarks by U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller discussing "military targets" in the Russian city of Belgorod, with "virtually no civilians left" in that city? No, that's not true: The vi
Full Fact→ It’s not true that more migrants arrived in the UK in two years than between 1066 and 2010
A graphic shared by Reform UK leader Richard Tice claims Rishi Sunak “welcomed more migrants in just two years” than in the 944 years prior to 2010.
Full Fact→ No evidence Russian missile strike hit ‘NATO logistics hub’ in Ukraine
There is no evidence that a video shared in the aftermath of a Russian missile strike in Odessa, Ukraine, shows damage to a ‘NATO logistics hub’.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – U.S. secretary of state didn’t announce suspension of Ukrainian elections; Ukrainian president did
When Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Ukraine recently "he announced that they were going to suspend elections in Ukraine."
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Image Of UK Labour Leader Keir Starmer Socializing With Jimmy Savile Is DIGITALLY ALTERED
Does a viral image prove that U.K. Labour Party leader Keir Starmer socialized with Jimmy Savile, a British TV personality accused of dozens of sexual offenses? No, that's not true: The image was digitally altered to place Savile in the r
Full Fact→ How does the UK’s GDP growth compare with other major economies?
We’ve taken a look at how the UK’s economic growth compares with other countries in the G7, following comments by Rishi Sunak on Today.
Full Fact→ What size are the UK’s armed forces?
A guide to how the number of personnel in the Army, RAF and Royal Navy is counted, and some common claims we’ve seen about these figures.
PolitiFact→ X posts – No, Milwaukee’s election chief did not print 64,000 ballots to force a Biden win
Fired Milwaukee election leader “printed 64,000 ballots in a back room at City Hall in Milwaukee and had random employees fill them out,” giving Joe Biden the lead.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: UK Did NOT Debate Removing The Holocaust From School Curriculums ‘This Week’ In May 2024
Was there a debate that took place in the UK in May 2024 about removing the Holocaust from school curricula? No, that's not true: A social media post making the claim in May 2024 began circulating in 2019. Years earlier, a 2007 report cir
Full Fact→ HAARP research facility was not behind recent UK Northern Lights sightings
A solar storm, not HAARP, created the intense auroral display seen in many parts of the world around 10 May.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Fico Shooting Suspect’s Wife Is NOT Ukrainian Refugee — Police Said Such Speculation Is ‘Hoax’
Is the wife of the suspect in the attempted assassination of Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico a Ukrainian refugee? No, that's not true: The head of the country's national police said that such speculations on social media are "definit
The Dispatch→ Russia Opens Up New Front in Northeastern Ukraine
‘Every hour this situation moves toward critical.’
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Replacement of Milwaukee election official unrelated to 2020 election
With the 2024 election just six months away, social media users continue to promote erroneous claims of election-related fraud in 2020, most recently with a spotlight on Wisconsin.
The Dispatch→ Europe Announces Plan to Use Frozen Russian Assets for Ukraine
‘There could be … no greater use for that money than to make Ukraine and all of Europe a safer place to live.’
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, Karine Jean-Pierre didn’t say the US and Ukraine won World War II
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the United States and Ukraine won World War II.