A former Scotland leader of Nigel Farage’s previous party has been under scrutiny over pro-Russian statements since an explosive court case. The Ferret analysed what David Coburn said about Russia – and Ukraine – throughout his political career.
Mohammed was 17 years old when he was shot by an Israeli sniper in Bethlehem. Two years on, his family say there is no accountability for his death. Their story is one of dozens from across the West Bank, it is claimed, with human rights organisations calling for child rights to be upheld.
Reform UK's Malcolm Offord claimed one million people came to the UK in the 20th century, and seven million people have come to the UK since 2000. This is not accurate.
The Queen’s Platinum jubilee, marking 70 years of her reign as the UK’s monarch, led to an increase in conversation about the future of the royal family.
A picture of Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon, claiming to show her waving a Union Flag at a Jubilee event, was posted on social media, with a caption claiming Scottish nationalists were “up in arms about this picture of their beloved leader waving the Union Flag”.
Ferret Fact Service looked into this and found it FFS (For Facts’ Sake).
The image was posted by a Twitter user, and shared over 3,600 times, and appears to show the First Minister waving a small union flag on a stick.
It is actually a very crude manipulation of another image, which shows Nicola Sturgeon’s attendance at the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
The original image, taken by Associated Press, shows the First Minister in the background as Royal Family members Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie arrive at the Platinum Jubilee concert.
Multiple images of Sturgeon at the event were captured. She attended with her husband, SNP chief executive Peter Murrell.
In the original picture she is sitting with both hands out of the picture, but in the altered image a union flag has been crudely photoshopped in, along with an arm to make it look as though she is holding it.
Closer inspection shows this attempt to mislead is rather basic, with the arm purported to by Sturgeon’s actually extending in front of the chair she is sitting behind.
This is one crude example of a misleading or manipulated image being used to make a political point. Nicola Sturgeon has regularly been the subject of these, with one manipulated image falsely claiming to show her watching the Alex Salmond inquiry at Bute House going viral in 2021. The image was actually her cabinet watching the UK Supreme Court verdict on the proroguing of parliament in 2019.
How to avoid falling for misleading images:
This is a poorly photoshopped picture of Nicola Sturgeon at the Queen’s Platinum jubilee concert, into which someone has added a union flag. While the First Minister did attend the event, there is no evidence she was captured waving a flag.
FFS! (For Facts’ Sake) – The claim is baseless, ridiculous and/or logically impossible!
A former Scotland leader of Nigel Farage’s previous party has been under scrutiny over pro-Russian statements since an explosive court case. The Ferret analysed what David Coburn said about Russia – and Ukraine – throughout his political career.
Reform UK's Malcolm Offord claimed one million people came to the UK in the 20th century, and seven million people have come to the UK since 2000. This is not accurate.
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