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Videos which have been shared hundreds of times on Facebook claim the Supreme Court has ordered Sir Keir Starmer to resign. This simply isn’t true. fullfact.org/politics/supre…

False reports that drivers have rammed into Muslim “street prayers” in London and Cardiff have been gaining traction on social media. But there’s no evidence that these incidents happened, and the posts include old and AI generated images. fullfact.org/crime/van-ram-…

SNP leader John Swinney claimed in a leaflet “there are no university tuition fees in Scotland”. That isn’t quite right. While many undergraduates have their degrees paid for, fees do need to be paid by some students, including many postgraduates. fullfact.org/politics/snp-t…

A video styled as a BBC report claims a stolen Cézanne painting has been identified in the background of a video posted by Volodymyr Zelenskyy. But the real video posted by the Ukrainian president includes a different painting and the BBC confirmed the report is fake. fullfact.org/culture-and-so…

A fake video on Facebook claims to show real voters on the street ahead of elections next month. The clip, in which they all say who they would vote for, is AI-generated. fullfact.org/politics/fake-…

A 2025 video of Donald Trump announcing ‘gold cards’ as a path to citizenship in the US has been edited to show the president criticising the Mayor of London. President Trump has been highly critical of Sir Sadiq Khan, but the audio in these particular clips is fake. fullfact.org/politics/fake-…

A video viewed over 400,000 times which claims to be recent footage of a crowded small boat crossing the English Channel, isn’t genuine. The clip is AI generated. fullfact.org/immigration/sm…

A fake Daily Mail article headlined “Members think Keir Starmer shouldn’t resign” has been circulating online. The Mail published no such article, although the survey it describes is real. fullfact.org/politics/fake-…

Posts on Facebook claim Reform UK politician Zia Yusuf was named as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2026. This is false. Mr Yusuf doesn’t appear on the magazine’s TIME100 list. fullfact.org/politics/zia-y…

A video’s been widely shared on social media with false claims it shows the Mayor of Rotherham calling for Sharia law and the expulsion of non-Muslims from Britain. But that’s not what she says in the clip, which is actually part of a Ramadan message. fullfact.org/politics/musli…

A video of a helicopter on fire has been shared online with claims that it shows a US Black Hawk helicopter shot down by Iran. But this isn’t true - the clip is actually from Syria in 2020. fullfact.org/conflict/syria…

A video on Facebook claiming to show a 500-strong anti-government protest in Birmingham is AI-generated and not real footage. West Midlands Police also told us it was not aware of any such recent protest. fullfact.org/politics/birmi…

Ahead of #WorldPressFreedomDay on 3 May, Full Fact CEO Chris Morris joined @swissinfo_en's Inside Geneva podcast to unpack the growing challenges facing press freedom worldwide.

Can you trust those bar charts in the local election leaflets on your doormat? We’ve found over a dozen examples of leaflets making claims about how people are likely to vote which are misleading, or not backed with reliable evidence. Our investigation 👇 fullfact.org/politics/elect…

Social media posts claim Reform UK edited the announcement of a Harrow candidate and replaced a photo of her wearing a headscarf after “backlash”. But there’s absolutely no evidence this is true, and the candidate told us the headscarf image is fake. fullfact.org/politics/harro…

The Guardian’s covered @FullFact’s investigation into misleading and unreliable local election leaflets on its front page this morning. Full story here: theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

If politicians are serious about restoring trust in our democracy, we deserve more than dodgy election leaflets with unreliable and misleading data. @FullFact’s investigation for @guardian #FactsMatter theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

An independent candidate in the upcoming Scottish elections on May 7th has told us “illustrative” AI-generated videos he shared of himself campaigning don’t show real events. After we got in touch, he re-uploaded the videos to more clearly label the footage as AI. fullfact.org/politics/glasg…

We’ve updated our article about @reformparty_uk's council tax promises after readers got in touch to share examples of claims they’d seen. If you see any election claims you think we should be fact checking, please get in touch via our tipline. fullfact.org/politics/refor…

During a recent ITV Wales election debate Reform UK’s Welsh leader Dan Thomas claimed “we don’t know” how many asylum seekers have been “dispersed across Wales”. But the UK government does publish this information, as our fact check explains. fullfact.org/immigration/as…