A BBC News video reports the First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska is trying to claim political asylum in a European country in order to escape an “aggravated relationship” with President Zelenskyy.

False. We’ve found no reports of a missing girl of that name in any of the locations mentioned in the posts claiming this, and the accompanying image is of an older girl who briefly went missing in ...

What do the following three things have in common: amazing scenes of ‘miracle houses’ that survived the LA wildfires, a picture of Israeli soldiers taken prisoner by Hezbollah, and an image of a young ...

While there have been similar reports in the UK, the article being shared is about a specific case in Ireland.

There’s no evidence this is a genuine audio recording. It first circulated in October 2023 and was widely reported as fake at the time. It may have been created by artificial intelligence, though we ...

I work in the News and Online team at Full Fact, focusing on the weird and wonderful claims circulating on social media, particularly after breaking news events. I previously worked at The Bookseller ...

News bulletins on Radio 2, Radio 3 and 6 Music claimed Britain consumes “117 million tonnes” each year—which is roughly a million times what National Crime Agency estimates suggest.

Viral social media posts misrepresent the roles of Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood and the interim chair of Ofsted’s board, ...

Speaking on Sky News this morning, the health secretary Wes Streeting overstated the number of people on the NHS waiting list. He said: “There is still more than seven million people on [the] NHS ...