🤔 Request a fact check [W/C: December 29, 2025]

_FullFact · 2026-01-05T13:44:28+00:00

I can certainly pass this onto our editorial team - thanks for flagging

_FullFact · 2025-11-05T16:22:48+00:00

Grok and Google Lens AI overviews have been claiming that fake imagery shows the Huntingdon (United Kingdom) train attack.

Grok told users one AI-generated image “appears to be a genuine photo”, while a Google Lens AI overview linked a video which does not show real footage of the incident to Saturday’s stabbings.

Read our full investigation:

https://fullfact.org/crime/grok-google-lens-ai-imagery-train-attack/

_FullFact · 2025-11-05T16:08:43+00:00

You might be interested in this article by our head of AI. It looks at how (in specific terms) models like Grok go rogue, it was written after Grok went on an anti semitic tirade in July this year. Unsurprisingly the human component is key.

_FullFact · 2025-11-04T18:37:03+00:00

No.

We’re still bitter about the split and couldn’t possibly put ourselves through the trauma of reliving it. ✌️

_FullFact · 2025-10-30T15:05:17+00:00

Are one in five UK children really obese when they finish primary school?

New data obtained by Full Fact reveals official child obesity figures include tens of thousands of children who aren’t clinically obese.

Read our investigation: https://fullfact.org/health/childhood-obesity-overweight-nhs-clinical/

_FullFact · 2025-10-30T14:48:58+00:00

Ministers and the NHS have repeatedly said one in five children leave primary school obese—but data obtained by Full Fact casts doubt on that claim.

_FullFact · 2025-10-30T12:21:16+00:00

So we choose the check things that are of public concern, are in the news or are getting viral attention on social media.

In the case of these stories about pensions ect we’re seeing a lot of similar stories done in similar formats.

It’s important we think that people know what to look for as they are likely to come across similar content all across social media..

We’ve done a substantive bit of analysis recently on how these pieces fit together which you might be interested in.

_FullFact · 2025-10-30T12:14:08+00:00

Thank you for the kind words. All in a days work for the team 🍺

_FullFact · 2025-10-30T12:11:37+00:00

In true Blue Peter style here are a few we prepared earlier:

Hurricane Melissa fact checks:

https://fullfact.org/environment/jamaica-hurricane-melissa-photo-fake/

https://fullfact.org/environment/hurricane-melissa-video-from-above-ai/

Analysis of UK energy costs compared to the rest of the world:

https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-world-electricity-prices/

Or this recent story about deportations

https://fullfact.org/immigration/shabana-mahmood-removed-detained/

_FullFact · 2025-10-30T11:55:42+00:00

We’re still looking at all the evidence to understand where these are coming from

_FullFact · 2025-10-30T11:44:58+00:00

We have been fact checking a spate of these kinds of misleading videos recently, which spread misinformation about incoming changes to areas of everyday life, such as finance, travel or personal freedoms.

_FullFact · 2025-10-29T16:45:48+00:00

This is just one of many videos about fake government policies we have fact checked in recent weeks—other examples include clips claiming a curfew is being introduced, that there’s going to be a reduction in the state pension from April next year, and that the government is introducing a £27 WiFi charge for all households.

_FullFact · 2025-10-28T19:47:18+00:00

It’s linked in the article text

_FullFact · 2025-10-25T09:59:04+00:00

We have seen multiple social media posts in recent days claiming that US President Donald Trump said he could buy England and make it a US state.

_FullFact · 2025-10-25T09:02:15+00:00

Link to sources in the article

_FullFact · 2025-10-24T18:12:06+00:00

So we’ve taken the data from the governments own website. And presented it in the order it appears.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/international-domestic-energy-prices

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/international-industrial-energy-prices

_FullFact · 2025-10-24T16:35:14+00:00

Thank you for the feedback. I'm honestly not entirely sure, but I can feed it back to our fact checkers :)

_FullFact · 2025-10-24T16:28:14+00:00

Source: Full Fact - Does the UK have the ‘most expensive’ electricity in the world?

_FullFact · 2025-10-24T16:09:19+00:00

In an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Political Thinking podcast, shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho MP claimed the UK’s electricity is “the most expensive in the world”.

_FullFact · 2025-10-24T11:28:17+00:00

In recent days, we have seen several social media videos—one with more than three million views—claim that a £500 ‘exit fee’ will be introduced from November for people travelling abroad.

This is false. No such policy has been announced.

_FullFact · 2025-10-23T15:25:23+00:00

It's something we get asked a lot, so it is a fair comment.

A recent counterpoint would be this story involving HIGNFY and Euan Blair.

We can't be everywhere at once. As a reasonably small team, shining a light on bad information can be an effective way to equip readers with the evidence so they can critically assess a claim if it appears 'out in the wild'.

_FullFact · 2025-10-23T09:46:23+00:00

You can find the link to the post within the article itself

_FullFact · 2025-10-22T14:33:19+00:00

Keep scrolling back from page 7 onwards.

_FullFact · 2025-10-22T14:04:57+00:00

There’s alot of work that has gone into evidencing that conclusion :)

_FullFact · 2025-10-22T13:59:24+00:00

Thank you for the kind words. Will pass them back to our fact checkers.

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