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No, Apple has not said it will remove Telegram from iPhones

No, Apple has not said it will remove Telegram from iPhones

Apple has previously removed other apps from its store for violating its policies, including social media platform Parler and video game Fortnite.


Claims Labour pledged to freeze energy bills appears to refer to old policy

Claims Labour pledged to freeze energy bills appears to refer to old policy

For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as missing context because this is an old pledge made by Labour in response to rising energy prices in 2022, and no such promise featured in the party’s recent election manifesto.


No evidence WHO has ordered preparation for mpox ‘mega lockdowns’

No evidence WHO has ordered preparation for mpox ‘mega lockdowns’

The full report states that there is “moderate risk” of spread of mpox in other countries outside of West, Central and East Africa, and the focus there will be on preventing a resurgence in cases through “surveillance and preparedness”.


California did vote for Kamala Harris as Democratic presidential nominee

California did vote for Kamala Harris as Democratic presidential nominee

For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as missing context because California initially passed as it is tradition for a candidate’s home state to vote towards the end of the roll call, and it did assign 482 delegates to Ms Harris.


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.