Tag Archives: fake

An image circulating on social media claims to show US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s communist party membership card. But the picture is fake and was likely created using an online communist party card generator.

One post on X, formerly Twitter, has been viewed more than 60,000 times and is captioned “Communist Party Kamala? Say it ain’t so Joe.” The image includes some printed text claiming Ms Harris received the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ‘document’ in 1984, and that the New York Times reported on the communist party credential. The picture has also been shared on Facebook. 

But the membership card has the same number (04094064), stamp and payment record as a template on a website which allows people to…

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…

A photo of former president and Republican nominee Donald Trump is being shared online with the claim it’s a recent photo—allegedly proving an assassination attempt on his life was “fake”. 

The photo is of the side of Mr Trump’s face and magnifies his right ear. Overlaid text says: “This was an image from Team Trump released yesterday, showing his right ear. Where’s the scar or sutures from being hit in the ear?”

Mr Trump’s right ear was injured in an attempted assassination at a rally in Pennsylvania, on 13 July. One member of the audience, Corey Comperatore, was killed and two others, David Dutch and James Copenhaver, were seriously injured. 

However, this is not a recent photo shared by his team “yesterday”, as claimed. The photo dates back…

A video purporting to be a BBC news report about Ukrainian businessmen making donations to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is fake.

It has been shared on X (formerly Twitter), and also on Facebook. The video claims that “three of Ukraine’s richest businessmen have donated $8m to Donald Trump’s election campaign”. 

Text within the video, which features a BBC watermark, also claims the report has been produced with investigative journalism organisation Bellingcat. 

The video claims the donations occurred after the attempted assassination of the Republican presidential candidate on 13 July and says they were made through “cryptocurrency transactions” to Mr Trump’s “cryptocurrency wallet”. 

However, both the BBC and Bellingcat have denied that…

A Facebook account using the name “Wetherspoons” has shared a post claiming that the pub chain is offering free meals to people who share and comment.

The post has been shared more than 24,000 times at the time of writing, but it is not real. It copies similar posts from other Facebook accounts appearing to impersonate the brand which we’ve fact checked previously. 

The post says: “Hello everyone! I’m Tim Martin, founder of Wetherspoons. I’m very pleased to introduce you to my son Ryan Martin. Next week I will be retiring and handing over all control to my eldest Son. Before I depart I’d like to do one last good deed to say thanks because without all of you we wouldn’t be here today. So everyone who shares&comments within the next 7 days will receive a…