This morning chancellor Rachel Reeves gave official government backing for the construction of a third runway at Heathrow Airport, as part of a major speech on boosting economic growth. While the ...

We’ve seen lots of claims about human metapneumovirus (hMPV) in recent weeks. This explainer looks at what we know about it.

Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested that tariffs are paid by foreign countries. During his inauguration speech, for example ...

Posts on Facebook have repeated an inaccurate claim that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has forecast that the UK will ...

After asking Ms Reeves’ office about her comments, we received a response from the Treasury. It confirmed that the last full ...

Labour MP Deirdre Costigan appears to be the latest politician to have confused the number of people on the NHS waiting list with the number of cases. Ms Costigan, who is also a member of the Health ...

The LA wildfires, which killed at least 29 people, kept Full Fact’s online misinformation team busy in January. In total we published 11 fact checks about them, covering everything from suspected ...

At today’s Prime Minister’s Questions, the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer claimed that the previous government “quadrupled immigration, reaching almost one million a year”. We think the PM may have ...

This isn’t quite right. Some councils with elections scheduled for May 2025 have asked to postpone them due to a ...

This is not true. The clip predates the January 2025 ceasefire deal, and actually shows Knesset members in November 2023 following a film screening that included footage from Hamas’s 7 October attack.

The clip has been shared after President Trump’s inauguration with misleading captions that imply it’s recent—but the event occurred in March 2023.

The pilot of the US Army Black Hawk helicopter involved in a crash with a commercial plane above Washington DC has been identified as Jo Ellis, a transgender woman. This is false. A video statement ...