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The UAE has not frozen a contract for fighter jets from France over the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov

The UAE has not frozen a contract for fighter jets from France over the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov

Claims that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has “frozen” a contract for 80 fighter jets from France over the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov are circulating on social media, as part of a fake Al Jazeera video.


Trump TV Ad Falsely Claims Harris Has ‘Unleashed’ IRS on Tipped Workers

Trump TV Ad Falsely Claims Harris Has ‘Unleashed’ IRS on Tipped Workers

But the proposal is partly the basis for a Trump campaign TV ad that falsely claims Vice President Kamala Harris “weaponized” and “literally unleashed” the IRS on tipped workers.


Trump Calls a Routine Revision of Job Numbers a ‘Lie’

Trump Calls a Routine Revision of Job Numbers a ‘Lie’

“It’s a well-constructed survey with weights that are carefully calculated to try to make the results as representative as possible of the types of employers in the United States by size and location,” Wilcox, a former director of the Federal Reserve Board’s statistics division, told us.


Fake USA Today video falsely claims Church of Satan praised Paris Olympics opening ceremony

Fake USA Today video falsely claims Church of Satan praised Paris Olympics opening ceremony

The Olympic Games organisers did apologise after a sequence of the opening ceremony depicting Greek god Dionysus came under criticism by some Christian groups, including the Catholic Church in France, as it was perceived to be a parody of Leonardo da Vinci’s painting ‘The Last Supper’.


NHS diversity officers don’t all make £96,000

NHS diversity officers don’t all make £96,000

This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook.


Kamala Harris and Tim Walz video in front of a communist poster has been edited

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz video in front of a communist poster has been edited

A videocirculating on social media appears to show Democratic presidential candidate and current US Vice President, Kamala Harris, with her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, posing for a selfie in front of a Revolutionary Communists of America poster.


Estimate of ÂŁ400,000 cost per asylum seeker based on the Netherlands, not the UK

Estimate of ÂŁ400,000 cost per asylum seeker based on the Netherlands, not the UK

But the £400,000 figure is based on a report published by researchers at the University of Amsterdam which estimated that the net cost of “asylum migration” to the Dutch treasury averages €475,000 per immigrant (approximately £400,000).


9.4 million people are classed as economically inactive, not unemployed

9.4 million people are classed as economically inactive, not unemployed

For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as missing context because the post refers to the number of people in the UK who meet the official definition of economic inactivity, rather than being unemployed.


The Pope has not appointed Klaus Schwab ‘universal bishop’

The Pope has not appointed Klaus Schwab ‘universal bishop’

The People’s Voice article claims Pope Francis appointed Mr Schwab “universal bishop” because “his plan to restore nature to its position of primacy in the world order means he is more relevant figure than Jesus Christ in 2024 [sic]”.


Trump Revives – and Further Decreases – His Absurdly Low Estimate of Sea Level Rise

Trump Revives – and Further Decreases – His Absurdly Low Estimate of Sea Level Rise

On the campaign trail this summer, former President Donald Trump has routinely cast doubt on climate change by falsely claiming that the oceans will rise just “one-eighth of an inch over the next 400 years.” He’s previously used the same measurement over a period of 250 years.


Bird Flu Pandemic Preparedness Activities Are Not Evidence of a Conspiracy

Bird Flu Pandemic Preparedness Activities Are Not Evidence of a Conspiracy

Wheeler, for instance, said that the kit “has everything that you or I will need to combat this lab-created virus that I’m sure the globalists are going to unleash on us,” referring to H5N1 bird flu and listing ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as components, while telling followers to buy it using her promo code.


Walz Twists Some Labor Claims

Walz Twists Some Labor Claims

“While the administration may be trumpeting this rule as a good thing for workers, that is a ruse,” Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank partly funded by labor unions, wrote in a statement issued the same day.