Margarine is not “one molecule away” from plastic and it doesn’t share 27 ingredients with paint. This false claim has been ...

An image shared on social media with claims it shows a list of patent numbers for viruses such as H1N1 flu, Zika virus and ...

A claim has recently circulated online falsely suggesting that humans cannot “catch” viruses because “they don’t exist”. The ...

A video of Albert Bourla speaking has been edited to make it sound as if Pfizer wants to depopulate the world.

Almost 2,000 people have shared a post suggesting there is a plot to lower the “population’s vitality” by hiding citric acid ...

This is incorrect. The data does not show how many times the petition has been signed with MPs’ names, but how many times it has been signed by people recorded as living in those MPs’ constituencies.

Disney, Marvel, IBM, Comcast, Warner Bros., Lionsgate, Paramount, Sony Pictures, CBS and The Colbert Show have stopped posting on the social media platform X. This is mostly incorrect. All but three ...

We’ve seen some confusion online following Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s claim today that “spiking will be made a criminal offence”, with some commentators saying this is already the case or ...

A video shows MSNBC host Rachel Maddow becoming emotional while reporting on a news item that suggested Elon Musk is considering buying the news channel. This video has been edited, and miscaptioned.

This is not true. The picture was taken in Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel last year. A picture circulating on social media in recent days with claims it shows “Tel Aviv last night” was actually ...