False. Hantavirus was cited in Pfizer documents as part of a list of adverse events of special interest. These are health conditions researchers monitor during vaccine trials, not side effects.

We’ve taken a look at the figures after Reform UK and the Conservatives made seemingly contrasting claims about council tax ...

Mr Lowe does not appear on this list. A number of Facebook posts have claimed that Great Yarmouth and Restore Britain MP ...

While the Scottish government covers tuition fees for those ordinarily resident in Scotland taking their first full-time ...

False. This video is from 2016 and shows a military sinking exercise of the decommissioned USS Thach. A video of a ship being fired at has been widely shared on social media with false claims it shows ...

An image shared on social media by the SNP and the First Minister of Scotland, John Swinney, has sowed confusion online, with some social media users questioning whether the image was made with ...

We’ve found over a dozen leaflets making claims about how people are likely to vote which are misleading, unsourced or not ...

A video viewed more than 230,000 times falsely claims to show the moment migrants on a small boat are intercepted and ...

A video shows a BBC News report about a stolen painting by Paul Cézanne appearing in footage from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Our verdict This isn’t a real report from the BBC and the ...

The clip, which has gained over a thousand comments with many believing it to be genuine, doesn’t really show scenes from the ...

False claims circulating on social media that incidents in London and Cardiff saw drivers confront praying Muslims include ...

Should you take a pen to a polling station? Ahead of the 2026 elections, we’ve seen posts on social media suggesting it may be safer to cast your vote in pen rather than pencil to avoid vote tampering ...