Familiar vaccine misinformation resurfaces in a Facebook video, which claims that mRNA vaccines change people’s genes. There is no factual basis for this claim.

A video seemingly showing the US president calling for a ban on Skittles and the red food colouring carmine is a deepfake.

Sadiq Khan has just announced a new proposal to build 40,000 new council homes specifically prioritised for Muslims under the ...

The data we have suggests most schools in England don’t allow pupils to use their phones—although the types of ban vary, and ...

In a recent episode of the BBC’s Strong Message Here podcast, presented by the writer Armando Iannucci and journalist Helen ...

We’ve taken a look at what Labour said it would do, after Conservative claims that council tax rises this year amount to a ...

The hoax posts share photos of children who have been reported missing in the US, and there are no reports of any such ...

Misleading claims that the new interim chair of Ofsted’s board, Sir Hamid Patel, will be able to change what pupils learn in ...

Our round-up looks at claims from the chancellor Rachel Reeves’ statement in the Commons, and the Conservative response.

The Irish Government and the Irish Centre for Diversity have confirmed they have never created or distributed such a leaflet.

This picture isn’t real, and was made using artificial intelligence—though there are real videos of someone dressed as the character at the protests. Another clue the image isn’t real is disembodied ...

A photo shows the family of a person called “Khalil”, who arrived in the UK by boat, lives in a five-bedroom property in north London and is taking the government to court over his housing needs. The ...