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This great website takes these concerns and checks the facts on your behalf.  They also follow up on their fact checks and ask people to correct the record on the rare occasion they get things wrong. A registered charity, Full Fact doesn’t take sides, and is founded by a cross-party board including representatives of different political parties and viewpoints. Recent (and often amusing) highlights include: [PCR tests aren’t being used to clone humans](https://fullfact.org/health/PCR-test-cloning/), [you can’t buy an Argos air dryer for £2](https://fullfact.org/online/fake-argos-airfryer-deal/) and the fact that the BBC should have put [billions, not millions](https://fullfact.org/economy/Autumn-Statement-BBC-Graph/) in their news report on  Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement. You can even [sign up](https://fullfact.org/signup/) for updates straight to your inbox to help you cut through the, ahem, BS on a daily basis! --- Found this Little Missions interesting? 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