This morning chancellor Rachel Reeves gave official government backing for the construction of a third runway at Heathrow Airport, as part of a major speech on boosting economic growth. While the ...

Labour MP Deirdre Costigan appears to be the latest politician to have confused the number of people on the NHS waiting list with the number of cases. Ms Costigan, who is also a member of the Health ...

At today’s Prime Minister’s Questions, the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer claimed that the previous government “quadrupled immigration, reaching almost one million a year”. We think the PM may have ...

The LA wildfires, which killed at least 29 people, kept Full Fact’s online misinformation team busy in January. In total we published 11 fact checks about them, covering everything from suspected ...

Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested that tariffs are paid by foreign countries. During his inauguration speech, for example ...

This is fake. CNN has confirmed that it has not published this video, and there are no reports of any such strike taking place. A video circulating on social media appears to show a CNN report about ...

The pilot of the US Army Black Hawk helicopter involved in a crash with a commercial plane above Washington DC has been identified as Jo Ellis, a transgender woman. This is false. A video statement ...

False. This image has been edited. Live footage of the same moment shows she is holding the programme the correct way up. The photo shows Ms Trump alongside her husband, President Donald Trump, and ...

Today, 31 January 2025, is the fifth anniversary of the day the UK formally left the European Union. And to mark it, we’ve been taking a quick look back at some of the claims we’ve fact checked about ...

We’ve seen lots of claims about human metapneumovirus (hMPV) in recent weeks. This explainer looks at what we know about it.

Posts on Facebook have repeated an inaccurate claim that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has forecast that the UK will ...