A British man has been banned from teaching for numerous breaches of the Teachers’ Standards code, a Department for Education (DfE) panel report shows, contrary to claims that Joshua Sutcliffe was banned only for using the wrong pronoun when addressing a transgender male pupil.

The Progress Pride Flag does not include representation for people attracted to minors, contrary to harmful misinformation posts on social media. The design, which added white, pink, light blue, brown and black to the traditional rainbow Pride flag, was expanded to represent the transgender community and people of color.

Exaggerated rape statistics for Sweden in 2013 that have been used to suggest that migrants have driven an increase in assaults are false. Although Swedish crime data show an increase in such offences between 1990 and 2011, there is no evidence migration was a cause, an expert said.

Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick did not admit to helping the U.S. government and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) stage the Apollo moon landings between 1969 and 1972. A quote from an actor playing the director in a recording of a purposely fabricated interview has been falsely attributed to Kubrick himself. Separate clips of the actor being reminded of his lines show it is not the famed filmmaker.

An image that shows a flying portable toilet powered by drones was generated by artificial intelligence (AI).

The Atlantic did not publish the headline, “White Supremacy is now a multi-racial movement. It can no longer be denied”, but a screenshot with that text has been shared online.

A tweet stemming from a parody account impersonating U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is being taken seriously by users online.

The average distance between the Earth and Sun measured using trigonometry is 93 million miles, not 3,000 miles as claimed in a viral post online.

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry made no mention of confiscating farms at a climate change summit in May. While his words at the event angered some on the right, an article shared on social media claimed, with no evidence, that he said the government should take away their farms.

A photograph of a ransacked and graffitied Target store was captured in Minneapolis in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder. Posts online, however, shared it in May 2023 saying it shows a response to conservative backlash over the retailer’s 2023 Pride collection.