The Full Fact Podcast

A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.

• GB News presenter makes incorrect claims about Covid-19 deaths
• Fake government guidance is wrong about face masks and equality laws
• Viral claims of Australian children dying from vaccine have no evidence

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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.

• Daily Express overstates Brexit trade value (again)
• Prime Minister’s Questionables: Employment, the economy and PPE
• Dialling 55 during 999 call won’t automatically send police to your location

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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.

• Doctor who challenged Sajid Javid made misleading claims about vaccines
• Conservative ministers repeat Prime Minister’s false employment claims
• Betty White did not get a Covid booster vaccine three days before she died

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 A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.

• Three things Boris Johnson got wrong at the first PMQs of the Year
• And no, The Guardian didn’t deactivate ‘Person of the Year’ poll because J.K. Rowling took the lead

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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.

• Lorraine Kelly and her guests were wrong about Covid-19 patients 
• Do police normally investigate things that happened a year ago? 
• Boris Johnson *did* receive his third Covid-19 vaccine

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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.

• Concerns raised about legitimacy of research linking vaccines and heart attacks
• Resettlement figures don’t give us the full picture on refugee numbers
• Misleading for Nadine Dorries to say Channel 4 is ‘in receipt of taxpayers’ money’

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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.



• Peston claim that immigration is top public concern based on his own findings
• Numbers ‘in work’ not yet back to pre-pandemic levels
• And no, Dominic Raab didn’t say he watched Peppa Pig with his parents when he was young

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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.



• Study doesn’t show masks cause 53% drop in Covid risk
• Scotland’s electricity consumption isn’t 100% renewable
• Unvaccinated people aren’t 32,000 times more likely to die from Covid 

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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast:

• Covid-19 hospitalisations are below last year, not 14 times higher as NHS CEO claimed
• Be wary of claims Covid-19 deaths “soar” on Tuesdays
• Poll didn’t indicate the majority want a new Covid-19 lockdown

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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast:

• BBC presenter corrects false claim about Owen Paterson vote
• Why are media outlets reporting the Covid epidemic is escalating?
• Guardian wrong to suggest unvaccinated deaths are the majority currently

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