false
16/09/2021
Fact Check Library
Rachel Muller Heyndyk
Rachel is a senior fact checker and journalist based in London. She has an MA in Magazine Journalism from City University, and has written news and features for several newspapers and magazines. Before that, she took an undergraduate degree in English Literature and Drama. She enjoys reading and writing about the arts and politics, and has a particular interest in how work and technology impact our daily lives.
Latest Fact Checks by Rachel Muller Heyndyk
false
09/09/2021
Doctors in the U.K. will be paid an extra £10 for every child they vaccinate, and Google is trying to hide it.
false
07/09/2021
The bodies of those who died from COVID-19 vaccines are being dissolved and turned into fertilizer in Wisconsin.
misleading
31/08/2021
COVID-19 vaccines should not be rolled out to 12 year olds in the U.K. as they haven't been tested properly.
misleading
Updated
27/08/2021
Afghan evacuees and asylum seekers are arriving at airports with no documentation and false papers.
misleading
25/08/2021
The Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla has said that it is likely that a vaccine resistant strand of COVID-19 will emerge.
false
24/08/2021
Pandas, elephants, and other wild animals are likely to become extinct by 2025.
false
23/08/2021
Wearing a face mask can cause cancer.
true
18/08/2021
The Taliban does not have an air force.
misleading
18/08/2021
President Biden: "Our mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to be nation building. It was never supposed to be creating a unified democracy."
false
17/08/2021
Doctors in the U.K will be forced to have COVID-19 vaccines.
true
16/08/2021
President Joe Biden said that there would be "no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of the US Embassy from Afghanistan."
