South Yorkshire Police say no evidence of any crime has been uncovered and counter terrorism police are not involved in the investigation.

The health secretary appeared to tell the Labour conference that a “tax break for private healthcare” was Reform’s only health policy at the last election, but there were several in its manifesto.

A video shared on Facebook claims that wearing sunglasses causes cancer. But there’s no evidence for this. The video includes ...

A false claim that Covid-19 vaccines caused a tripling of miscarriage and cancer rates, and a tenfold rise in neurological conditions has recirculated on social media.

False. HAARP cannot control the weather and has nothing to do with the flash flood on the Nepal-Tibet border. We’ve spotted social media posts claiming that the recent flash flood on the Nepal-Tibet ...

Benefits and the amount the government spends on welfare has become one of the most hotly debated issues in politics. This explainer tackles some of the most common questions and claims we’ve seen ...

In 2017 then-CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz, said that the company would hire 10,000 refugees, not Muslims specifically, globally over five years. Social media posts claiming that Starbucks is ...

You have to be a member of the House of Lords or an elected member in a general election to become UK Prime Minister. Andy Burnham was neither of these and therefore has no legal right to be Prime ...

A Facebook video with more than 10,000 likes falsely suggests autism is caused by vaccines, and that a vaccine programme supported by Bill Gates introduced autism to Vietnam. Autism was first ...

False. The first video actually shows damage caused by a car fire underneath a traffic light in Lugagnano, Italy, while the second was caused by a fire at a nearby club in Berlin in 2025. A video ...

Cancer is part of the healing response, and tumours are created by the body as a bag to collect toxins contaminating the bloodstream. But these claims are not true. As we explained when we saw the ...