John’s story: when health misinformation leads to harm

At Full Fact, we work to challenge bad information—so people like John can make informed decisions about their health.

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Bad information ruins lives. It promotes hate, damages people’s health, and hurts democracy. You deserve better.

Recent fact checks

Contrasting claims have been circulating about the cost of Afghan resettlement schemes after a 2022 data leak.

Flag of Afghanistan flown in Kabul

With reports mentioning figures from £800 million to £7 billion, we look at what we know about the schemes’ cost.

Resettlement schemes

A video compilation with millions of views on social media claims to show recent flash floods hitting Brenham in Texas.

An image of the ‘Welcome to Texas’ sign on the state border.

This isn’t correct. None of the six clips in the compilation show this - our analysis shows they actually depict flooding in other countries.

Flood footage

Reform UK’s Nigel Farage and Richard Tice have claimed illegal migrants are 24 times more likely to go to prison.

The English Channel

This appears to refer to a figure which comes from Conservative analysis and is not reliable, based on the details reported.

Migrants claim