Some councils have asked to delay elections until 2026 due to a reorganisation of local government, but we don’t yet know ...

The clip has been shared after President Trump’s inauguration with misleading captions that imply it’s recent—but the event ...

New figures published by the International Monetary Fund don’t support claims made by a health minister and the Independent about growth projections.

A video shows the 2025 wildfires in LA. Incorrect. This video is from 2017. A video is being shared on social media alongside captions that imply it shows the recent wildfires in LA, which have killed ...

This isn’t a real picture. The watermark in the bottom right corner shows it is almost certainly an image generated by Grok—the generative AI chatbot created by Elon Musk’s startup, xAI, which allows ...

The photo actually shows a school building in the Russian city of Saratov. A photo is being shared on social media with claims it shows the reconstruction of the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol in ...

Donald Trump told People magazine in 1998: “If I were to run, I’d run as a Republican. They’re the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything on Fox News. I could lie and they’d ...

This is a hoax post. We could not find any credible reports about this by local police or media. The photo shows a man who went missing, but was later found, in Washington state in the US in December ...

A front-page article published in the Daily Telegraph claiming that “London is home to as many as 585,000 illegal migrants, equivalent to one in 12 of the city’s population” has been widely covered in ...

A photo shows a woman who is a “hardened criminal” and “back out on the streets” after being pardoned by President Trump for convictions relating to the US Capitol riot on 6 January 2021. The woman ...

This relies on figures which are not comparable. Since April 2017, statistics for ‘sexual grooming’ cases have included a new offence of ‘sexual communication with a child’. The figures are based on ...