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on Sunday Donald Trump, former President and US presidential candidate, survived an assassination attempt.
Since then we have seen several false claims circulating online. Two high-profile examples involved edited photos while another mistakenly identified the shooter.
In the first example, photos of Donald Trump and security agents have been edited showing them smiling after the assassination attempt. The second misidentifies an Italian sports journalist as the shooter responsible for the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
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In fast-moving news stories, online misinformation can be hard to spot. Here are Full Fact’s top three tips to ask yourself if something doesn’t look quite right.
Where’s it from?
What is missing?
How do you feel?
If you still aren’t entirely sure about something you are looking at we’ve produced a toolkit to help you spot misinformation.
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Best wishes,
Craig, Digital Campaigns Manager—Full Fact
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The UK government is only responsible for health within England, with the administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland responsible for health within their nations.
It’s often tempting to compare the NHS in the four nations, but in reality, the four services have different targets and ways of measuring performance, making comparisons between them difficult, and sometimes impossible.
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The government last week announced plans to allow some prisoners to be released after serving 40% of their sentences, to ease overcrowding in the prison estate.
But just how many prison places are currently available? In this article, we take a look at the latest numbers, and the measures proposed by the government and its predecessors to free up space.
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Ahead of his attendance at a NATO summit in Washington DC, commemorating the Alliance’s 75th anniversary, the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer committed his government to spending 2.5% of the UK’s GDP on defence. But crucially Mr Starmer, unlike his predecessor, has not put any timescale on that commitment.
With the launch this week of the government’s Strategic Defence Review, we take a look at the UK’s defence spending, and how it compares historically and internationally.
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Hours after polls closed in the general election, as the scale of Labour’s majority became clear, Sir Keir Starmer’s victory speech contained a striking observation: “The fight for trust,” he said, “is the battle that defines our age.”
This week, Sir Keir has a chance to prove that he means business, amid all the pomp and ceremony of the King’s Speech. Last year's ran to 1,223 words and was the longest monarch's speech for nearly 20 years. Will that be topped on Wednesday?
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