Michelle Obama’s ex-boyfriend did not reveal she ‘is actually a …
Sep 30, 2024 · Claims that the former US First Lady, Michelle Obama, is a man, are recirculating on social media, with one post on X, formerly Twitter, viewed more than 6.9 million times.. Posts have also been shared to Facebook, claiming her “ex-boyfriend David Upchurch has come forward to reveal that ‘she’ is actually a man named Michael Robinson and only became ‘Michelle’ after meeting Barack ...
US election: 20 million votes haven’t gone ‘missing’ – Full Fact
Nov 13, 2024 · False claims that 20 million votes have gone “missing” from the 2024 US presidential election have been circulating on social media since it was called in favour of Donald Trump.
Keir Starmer led the CPS when it did not charge Jimmy Savile, but …
Jun 26, 2020 · Since the election of Sir Keir Starmer as leader of the Labour party earlier this year, there has been a lot of discussion online and in the media about the role Mr Starmer played in the Jimmy Savile scandal and the decision not to prosecute him in 2009. Our readers have asked us to look into this. Mr Starmer was head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) when the decision not to prosecute ...
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Red Cross documents do not undermine official Holocaust deat
Feb 28, 2019 · Red Cross documents do not support the false claim that far fewer than six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. An anti-Semitic viral article posted on Facebook claimed that Red Cross documentation showed 271,000 people died in Nazi concentration camps, rather than the widely accepted figure of around six million.. As “evidence”, the article includes a 1979 document which it ...
Who gets more, pensioners or refugees? – Full Fact
Apr 19, 2018 · An image claiming that ‘illegal immigrants’ and refugees can claim a much larger yearly benefit than British pensioners has been widely distributed online, and several of our readers have asked us to factcheck it.
The 2024 general election - in numbers – Full Fact
Jul 5, 2024 · Six weeks on from Rishi Sunak’s soggy announcement on 22 May, and after a busy period of counting, 14 years of Conservative (or Conservative-led) government are over and a new political era is set to begin.. So, in true Full Fact fashion, we’ve taken a look at some of the facts and figures behind the 2024 general election results.
UK spending on foreign aid – Full Fact
Feb 28, 2017 · For every hundred pounds that’s made in the UK, seventy pence goes towards foreign aid. Another way to say this is that the government has a target to spend 0.7% of the UK’s Gross National Income on overseas development aid each year. Gross National Income (GNI) is the UK’s annual output of goods and services, plus any income we get from abroad. ...
The Great Pyramid’s location isn’t as spooky as this post make
Mar 31, 2020 · A popular Facebook post suggests that the location of the Great Pyramid of Giza is mysteriously connected to the speed of light. It says: “Speed of light: 299,792,458 m/s. Coordinates of the Great Pyramid of Giza: 29.9792458°N. Coincidence?” This figure for the speed of light (in a vacuum) is correct.And, as the post implies, it is not necessarily a …
The UK's Sharia 'courts' – Full Fact
Jul 3, 2015 · Sharia, or Muslim religious law, has been highly controversial in the UK. Interpretations of Sharia are associated in other countries with harsh penalties unknown in the UK; campaigners and politicians worry that Muslim women are discriminated against when family disputes are resolved under Sharia. UKIP says that: "the law of the land must apply to us all.