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A video’s been shared on social media with false claims it shows a handcuffed boy who was arrested for fishing.
Police say it actually shows officers responding to a report of a child in possession of a knife. No knife was found and no arrests were made.
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Claims that airlines are banning vaccinated people from flying are circulating online.
This isn’t true. There is no evidence of any airline doing this.
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Have you seen a screenshot of a Truth Social post supposedly shared by Donald Trump claiming that the Republicans have already won the 2026 midterms?
It’s fake and was originally posted by a satire account.
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A video of a dramatic mushroom cloud explosion has been shared online with claims about supposed Ukrainian military losses.
But the clip isn’t real. It was made with AI.
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A post supposedly written by a Nobel Committee member about Donald Trump’s desire to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize has gone viral online.
But some people sharing it may not realise it’s satire.
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A video of street vendors selling designer bags and football shirts is being shared with claims it shows goods looted in France during the recent unrest.
But the clip was actually filmed in Madrid last month, before the looting.
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This video does not show zombie knives being delivered to a migrant hotel or refugee centre.
It is footage published by the Metropolitan Police showing illegal knives intercepted at a residential address in London.
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We fact checked the Budget. Here’s what we looked at:
🔥 Gas standing charges
💷 The triple lock '£15bn' saving
💼 Unemployment and employment rates
➕ Plus more!
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.@KemiBadenoch raised Labour’s pledge to build 1.5 million new homes.
We’re rating this pledge as ‘appears off track’ - at the current rate of building it would take around five more years for it to be met, by our rough calculations. #Budget2026 fullfact.org/government-trac…
.@KemiBadenoch has been speaking about Labour's record on unemployment at #Budget2026.
Our explainer has all the latest labour market stats, and looks at how the picture has changed under the current government. (1/2)
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In the #Budget2026 @JohnHealey_MP announced extra support for rough sleepers during winter months.
On his first day as PM Andy Burnham promised to “end rough sleeping” in England. Our Government Tracker’s currently rating that pledge as ‘wait and see’.
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.@JohnHealey_MP said “in the first week of this new government, we took VAT off electricity for 29 million households”.
A temporary zero rate of VAT for electricity in Great Britain was announced in July but took effect earlier this month. #Budget2026
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The Chancellor has said that adjusting the triple lock will “save £15 billion a year”.
This figure is how much less the government thinks it’ll spend in 2039/40 on the state pension, compared to what it would have spent without any changes. #Budget2026 (1/2)
The exact figure will depend on how the economy performs in the coming years, as the Resolution Foundation has said. (2/2)
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.@JohnHealey_MP said his “choices” in #Budget2026 mean he’s “kept the Labour manifesto promise not to raise tax on working people”.
But ahead of the Budget our Government Tracker was rating this promise as ‘not kept’. Here’s why 👇
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At #Budget2026, @JohnHealey_MP praised his predecessor for taking the decisions required to “cut NHS waiting lists”. Our explainer on NHS waiting lists and waiting times has the latest figures, so you can see how the government is doing for yourself.
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1/ It’s Budget day, and we’re fact checking the claims live as they’re made.
👉➕ Follow along here, on our website, and in the Independent’s live coverage, which we’re contributing to: independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
2/ Plus: we asked our fact checkers which words and phrases they expect to hear from politicians of all parties around the Budget and turned them into this bingo card. Screenshot, play along and let us know if there any we missed!
ALT Full Fact’s “Budget26 Bingo” graphic on a bright turquoise background. A pound coin forms the final “o” of “Bingo”, and the subtitle reads: “Screenshot to play! Tick off all the phrases you hear.” A 5x5 bingo grid has the Chancellor’s red Budget box as the centre square. The other squares read: “Black hole”, “Fiscal rules”, “Tough choices”, “Highest ever”, “Working people”, “Backlog”, “Out of touch”, “We inherited”, “Cost of living”, “Broken promises”, “Let me be clear”, “Fiscal drag”, “Tax burden”, “Difficult decisions”, “Families are worse off”, “Record investment”, “Over the course of this parliament”, “Uphold the manifesto”, “We have heard it all before”, “Headroom”, “Taxpayers’ money”, “Real terms”, “Triple lock” and “Full stop.” Cut-out photos of five politicians peek in around the edges of the grid.