Full Fact

Full Fact is the UK's independent fact checking charity. We put reliable evidence at the heart of public debate so you can make sense of what matters.

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Earlier this afternoon Andy Burnham gave his first Labour Party conference speech as PM.
We’ve looked at a few of the claims he made, including on:
💡 energy bills
🏘️ housing
🩺 hospital discharges
https://t.co/4beZdwwscz

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A video falsely claiming to show a long queue of Muslim women waiting to sign up for free childcare has been liked thousands of times on social media.

But the clip actually shows the women waiting in line for a modest clothing sale in Amsterdam.

https://t.co/Uzkv1YX2uy

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A video being shared online supposedly shows an “asylum seeker” saying he wants “more money and more freedom”, and isn’t happy with how he’s being treated in the UK.

But the clip is AI-generated.

Here’s how we know 👇
https://t.co/DmaKkrVat5

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Viral posts claim Japan has passed ‘anti-Islam laws’ banning halal food, mosques, burqas and prayer calls.

This is false. Japan's constitution guarantees religious freedom.

Here's what we found 👇

https://t.co/1rMJH9ED4q

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We’ve seen posts online claiming that former Makerfield MP Josh Simons has been appointed as head of No 10’s policy unit.

This isn’t correct, though Mr Simons was linked to the role in some media reports earlier in the summer.

Our fact check 👇

https://t.co/sLZ4MRz3d2

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Old aerial footage of a glacier in Alaska has been shared with false claims it shows the glacier that caused the deadly flood in Nepal last month. https://t.co/l3u1V3b7NQ

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Ahead of the Budget, our new explainer takes a look at how the amount of tax the government collects, and the amount of tax paid by the ‘average worker’, compares historically and internationally.

https://t.co/xah7AEJzGv

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.@mpmwilko told the Liberal Democrat conference that “not a single small boat crossed the Channel” before the Brexit referendum.

That’s not true. Small boat crossings have risen significantly in recent years, but they did happen before June 2016.

https://t.co/PwKApBwgyv

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A post claiming migrants crossing the Channel who are rescued by the RNLI or Border Force automatically become refugees has been shared over a thousand times on Facebook.

But this isn’t true. Refugee status is only granted after a successful asylum claim.

https://t.co/42NsBpdmhL

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You may have seen social media posts misrepresenting the Labour candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, Sagal Abdi-Wali, as an asylum seeker.

Ms Abdi-Wali came to the UK as a child refugee in the 1990s, and is now listed as a British citizen.
https://t.co/mUMDXbii2x

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Many social media users appear to have been fooled by a fake picture that supposedly shows four teachers protesting against the removal of pride flags from their classrooms.

But the image is AI-generated and contains several classic clues like nonsense text.

https://t.co/jHTTt0uvML

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Ahead of the Budget, our new explainer takes a look at how the amount of tax the government collects, and the amount of tax paid by the ‘average worker’, compares historically and internationally. https://t.co/xah7AEJzGv

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A video of protests in Greece has been shared on Facebook with the claim that the country “is at a standstill”.

But the clip is actually from February 2025 - it shows a demonstration marking the anniversary of a rail disaster.

https://t.co/PnDNRYShcZ

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On his GB News show Nigel Farage claimed threshold freezes are “dragging about nine million pensioners into taxation”.

In fact, the OBR estimates the actual number of pensioners who will be brought into paying income tax because of the freezes is much lower.
https://t.co/pF91BAfLK4

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Old aerial footage of a glacier in Alaska has been shared with false claims it shows the glacier that caused the deadly flood in Nepal last month. https://t.co/l3u1V3b7NQ

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Reform UK’s @ZiaYusufUK claimed the UK’s foreign-born population in 2024 was “up 143% in a decade”.

This is incorrect - estimates suggest the increase over a decade was much less. His figure may refer to an estimate of the increase over 20 years instead.
https://t.co/eIITijMkhA

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Full Fact has seen several social media posts and adverts promoting the launch of a new ‘Monzo slots’ casino site. But, the bank has confirmed this has nothing to do with them and urged customers to be alert to such material.

https://t.co/C7VOlhH8y1

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We’re grateful to Stirling Council for correcting information on its website about the allowance paid to asylum seekers in catered accommodation.

Since June 2025, this weekly payment has been £9.95.
https://t.co/n3EScGU22H

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@MicrosoftAI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told @BBCr4today that independent auditing could help AI companies rebuild public trust.

We agree - and we're already doing it through our LLM benchmarking work.

🔗 Read more here: https://t.co/ej7iNbYVXH