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Fact check: Southport trial scheduled by judge long before US election result
- Claims have been made online about the timing of the trial of the Southport attacker.
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- NewsPA Media: UK News
Fact check: No UK prime minister has attended a US presidential inauguration
Donald Trump has broken with a long tradition of foreign leaders not attending the presidential swearing-in ceremony.
- CelebrityFull Fact
Image of supercar surrounded by flames in Los Angeles is digital creation
The picture has been circulating on social media, alongside captions that imply it’s a real scene from the US wildfires.
- PoliticsAFP
Video of Trump appointee calling for Imran Khan's release bears signs of AI
A prominent appointee of US President-elect Donald Trump has publicly called for the release of Pakistan's jailed former leader Imran Khan but footage appearing to show Richard Grenell extolling Khan bore signs of being AI-generated. The circulating clip, viewed hundreds of thousands of times, was an edited version of a speech Grenell delivered during the July 2024 Republican National Convention where he praised Trump and made no mention of Khan.
- NewsFull Fact
Plane crash video not linked to fires in LA
The footage actually shows a plane that crashed in Chile in January 2024.
- CelebrityFull Fact
Video of fire surrounding the Hollywood sign isn’t real
Full Fact traced the video back to an account which creates “original music, graphics, and video scenes”.
- CelebrityFull Fact
Burning Hollywood sign photo isn’t genuine
A picture which appears to show the iconic sign in Los Angeles engulfed in flames is almost certainly AI-generated.
- NewsFull Fact
Was David Lammy right to claim 45,000 Russian troops died in November?
The figure given by the foreign secretary actually appears to refer to an estimate shared by the Ministry of Defence for the number who were either killed or wounded.
- BusinessFull Fact
Recirculating figures don’t show current average energy prices across Europe
The figures being shared reflect the wholesale cost of electricity for suppliers in a single hour in December 2022.
- NewsPA Media: UK News
Fact check: How many children have been the victims of grooming gangs?
Full Fact has found a widely-shared estimate that a million children have been victims is not reliable, but the true total remains unclear.
- NewsPA Media: UK News
Fact check: Home Office memo advised police how to deal with vulnerable children
The Home Office circular did not contain the quote, or sentiments, that online users have attributed to it.
