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No, a ‘jail’ is not being built in front of the White House
- A false claim is being widely shared online that a stand being erected next to the White House is a prison, when it’s nothing of the kind. It’s the traditional presidential inauguration viewing stand.
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Fact check: Image of statue resembling Jimmy Savile was generated by AI
Synthetic picture does not show a real statue and was never intended to resemble children’s author Roald Dahl.
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Fact check: Petition data shows how many people in MP’s constituency have signed
An X user claimed both Sir Keir Starmer and Bridget Phillipson signed a petition calling for a general election multiple times.
- NewsFull Fact
General election petition data doesn’t show it’s been signed with MPs’ names thousands of times
The petition page data actually shows the number of signatories from each MP’s constituency.
- NewsPA Media: UK News
Fact check: Video of man in balaclava holding knives was filmed in the US
A social media user posted a video of a man with knives and said: ‘Welcome to modern Britain.’
- NewsFull Fact
FC Barcelona has not cut ties with Israel
Last year Barcelona City Council voted to suspend institutional ties with the current Israeli government. But this did not involve the football club.
- NewsFull Fact
Sadiq Khan did not say farmers protesting inheritance tax changes was ‘another example of racism’
The claim has been widely shared on Facebook, but it is not true.
- NewsPA Media: UK News
Fact check: Labour pledges on asylum hotels and likely AI images of Mike Tyson
Round up of fact checks from the last week compiled by Full Fact.
- PoliticsAFP
Trump's election speech video altered to claim visa ban on Nigerians
In 2020, Nigeria was among five countries targeted by a travel ban policy under the US administration of Donald Trump. According to the directive, Nigerian immigrants were no longer eligible for visas allowing them to live permanently in the US. Following Trump’s presidential re-election in November 2024, a TikTok video claiming that he would issue new visa restrictions for Nigerian professionals was shared tens of thousands of times. However, AFP Fact Check found manipulated audio had been adde
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Fact check: Jeremy Clarkson’s remark on striking workers was a joke over balance
Comments from a 2011 television interview have resurfaced after the former Top Gear presenter became involved in the farming protest.
- BusinessAFP
Nissan layoffs unrelated to Trump tariff proposal
US President-elect Donald Trump promised on the 2024 campaign trail to slap tariffs on all imports, sparking competing claims about their potential impact on American jobs and prices. But online posts saying that Nissan slashed 9,000 jobs in the state of Tennessee in response to the Republican's election victory and economic proposals are false; the Japanese car manufacturer said in its earnings report the cuts are worldwide and related to weak sales and declining profits .
