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A claim being shared online that the US state of Texas has declared bringing an LGBTQ pride flag into a school classroom a “crime” originates from a satirical news article.

Posts sharing the claim on X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook—sometimes include a link to a page with a full story and other versions have a screenshot including the headline: “It’s Official: Texas Declares Bringing a Pride Flag to the Classroom a Crime.”

Many of the accounts posting or commenting on it on social media appear to believe it is a genuine policy.

The website it originates from tags the article under ‘satire’. It reports that the bill is titled “The Classroom Sanctity Act”. We can find no evidence that a bill of this name or nature has been tabled or approved by…

A screenshot appears to show a Guardian opinion column written by energy secretary Ed Miliband MP headlined “Our GB Energy will become the envy of the world just like our NHS”. But this isn’t a real article. 

A post including the screenshot has been viewed more than 194,000 times on X (formerly Twitter), and it has also been shared on Facebook.

A Google search shows no such article currently exists on the Guardian’s website. The outlet’s opinion section does not feature any articles published by Mr Miliband on 6 September 2024, the date shown in the screenshot. 

Mr Miliband has written a number of opinion columns for the Guardian, including two mentioning Great British Energy since plans to create the publicly-owned renewable energy company were announced…

An image that supposedly shows a recent Telegraph article headlined “Keir Starmer considering building ‘emergency detainment camps’ on the Falkland Islands” has been widely shared on social media. But it’s not real.

The Telegraph has pinned a post to its X account confirming the headline has been fabricated and no such article exists. 

The image includes the name of a real Telegraph journalist, Fiona Parker, and gives the time and date the article was published as 11:21am on 7 August 2024. An entirely different article written by Ms Parker about a Conservative councillor’s wife being arrested was published at that time, and it is possible someone has edited the text of this article and screenshotted it to produce the faked image.

The fake article goes on…

According to a supposed screenshot circulating on Facebook and X (formerly Twitter), the Guardian has published an article about alien bacteria dying from bird flu on Mars. 

However, this is not a real article.

The image resembles a Guardian web page, with the headline: “First case of alien bacteria dying from bird flu recorded on Mars”.

This is followed by a subheading which reads: “Virus may have already killed other undescovered [sic] alien life across several local planets, possibly spreading across the universe”. 

Full Fact could not find any such article on the Guardian’s website or through a wider internet search. 

The Guardian also told Full Fact the screenshot “is not and has never been an article or headline published by the…

An altered screenshot of an opinion article in the Daily Telegraph has been circulating on social media.

The image being shared on Facebook supposedly depicts a comment piece, in mobile format, published on 8 February with the headline: “Mass migration is slowly bankrupting the UK.” 

This was the correct headline and date of the original article on the Telegraph website—which has since been updated to replace “the UK” with “Britain”.

However, the header image accompanying the story in the screenshot is not the one that appeared on the Telegraph’s website.

Where does the image come from?

A reverse image search shows that the photo in the Facebook post was