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* Put your ID away, you won’t need it to go shopping
* Lots of flags and one Arc de Triomphe: AI strikes again
* AI images of ‘Afghanistan earthquake’ shared by major newspapers
* Government Tracker
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Posts online have claimed that police estimated three million people joined the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march on Saturday.
That’s false. The Met Police’s actual estimate put the figure much lower, at between 110,000 and 150,000 people.
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The demonstration was reported as one of the largest “nationalist” rallies in recent years, but measuring non-ticketed crowd sizes is difficult.
The largest political rally of recent times is said to be the anti-Iraq War march in 2003, when police estimated 750,000 took part.
We’ve fact checked other crowd size claims before, including the People’s Vote ([link removed]) and anti-lockdown ([link removed]) marches.
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** Put your ID away, you won’t need it to go shopping ([link removed])
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By: Charlotte Green ([link removed])
Claims that shoppers will soon need to show photo ID to enter any supermarket in the UK are circulating widely online.
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** Lots of flags and one Arc de Triomphe: AI strikes again ([link removed])
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A photo shared thousands of times online supposedly showed a huge London protest with crowds waving Union Jacks.
But it wasn’t London, and it’s almost certainly not real.
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** AI images of ‘Afghanistan earthquake’ shared by major newspapers ([link removed])
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The MailOnline, Daily Express, Mirror, The Sun and The Times have all removed images after an investigation by Full Fact identified them as likely made using AI.
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** Government Tracker
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Full Fact’s most recent updates to our tracker of government policy.
** Tuesday 17 September
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** Thursday 21 August
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** Wednesday 10 September
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Are living standards improving in every part of the UK? ([link removed])
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** The Premier League hasn’t banned rainbow armbands and shoelaces ([link removed])
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** No, this isn’t a video of Muslim women in London ([link removed])
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