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** Did Donald Trump call Republicans ‘the dumbest group of voters’? ([link removed])
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A number of Facebook users have shared an image of a widely debunked claim that president-elect Donald Trump told People magazine in 1998 that Republicans are “the dumbest group of voters”.

This quote is fabricated. People magazine has previously confirmed that it has no record of publishing any such interview or exchange with Mr Trump.
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** Is Sadiq Khan calling for people to ‘learn Arabic’ to create harmony? ([link removed])
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An image being shared on social media claims Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said people should “learn Arabic” in order to “create harmony”, but there’s no evidence he ever said this.

We cannot find any evidence that Mr Khan ever actually said this, and his office says the claim is “nonsense”.
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An article in the Independent on Remembrance Day said: “During World War 1, parts of the UK’s countryside were destroyed amid bombing and fighting. But bright red poppies flourished in the muddy fields and inspired a poem by Canadian doctor, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.”

This is correct, according to the Royal British Legion, except of course the poem is not about fighting in the UK countryside, but in Flanders, which is part of Belgium. (Others made this point on social media.)

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