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Local Facebook groups for large cities like Belfast, Edinburgh and Manchester and smaller communities like Banbury, Melton Mowbray and Oldham have been targeted with bogus appeals.
The hoax posts checked by Full Fact in February include bogus warnings about a “serial killer”, a man who’d supposedly murdered two police officers and an alleged knife attacker, and claims that a woman had been found stabbed by a local canal.
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The author then often edits the post into something completely different, such as property listings, surveys, competitions, or product giveaways.
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** UK asylum backlog is down but higher than when Labour came into government ([link removed])
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Recently published data shows the asylum backlog decreased in the last quarter of 2024 but remains higher than when Labour entered government.
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** Did President Zelenskyy say “f*** him” when asked about President Trump outside Number 10? ([link removed])
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A TikTok video, from an account called ‘Daily UK News’, has gained traction on social media platforms, since President Zelenskyy visited the UK on 1 March following his clash with President Trump in the Oval Office at the end of February.
Text on the video claims to show Mr Zelensky’s “Unfiltered Response to Trump” being caught on camera as he entered 10 Downing Street earlier in the month. But the clip is misleading, and this isn’t what President Zelenskyy said.
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** No evidence an old tweet from Donald Trump about impeaching the President if stocks plummet is real ([link removed])
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A screenshot of a social media post, supposedly from US President Donald Trump’s X account in 2012, saying “the President should be impeached immediately” if the Dow Jones drops 1,000 points in two days, is being shared again on social media.
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