You are exposed to misinformation. And it's changing how you think.

A viral claim attributed to Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez a statement announcing five years in prison for insulting Islam. Sánchez never made such a statement nor proposed any such law: Spain's penal code punishes incitement to religious hatred with one to four years, with no Islam-specific provision. The viral image of Sánchez holding a Quran was AI-manipulated from a 2022 photo taken in Slovakia.

A video claiming to show Iran destroying two US fighter jets went viral with captions like "War Started. 2 America fighter jets destroyed." The footage actually comes from a 2022 YouTube video of the military simulation game Arma 3. Experts identified a Soviet-era 9K33 Osa missile vehicle not in Iran's arsenal, objects in unrealistic simultaneous focus, and reckless manoeuvres no real pilot would perform; CENTCOM confirmed no US aircraft were downed.

A fabricated screenshot mimicking a post from UK PM Starmer's X account claimed he gave the US 48 hours to withdraw from UK air bases and pay "historic rent" if Trump ends the US commitment to NATO. No such statement appears on Starmer's real account or any official source; the fake was traced to a satirical Threads account labelled "Political Commentary & Social Sarcasm."

Audio clips spread on TikTok and X purportedly showing VP JD Vance privately criticising Elon Musk and his DOGE work. Vance himself called it "a fake AI-generated clip," his spokesperson confirmed it was "100% fake," and forensic analysis by GetReal Labs found it "likely inauthentic" with speech patterns inconsistent with Vance's actual voice. The degraded audio quality was identified as a technique to conceal signs of AI synthesis.

A fabricated screenshot of an X post attributed to Nigel Farage showed a doctored £5 note featuring Donald Trump with the caption "When I'm PM I will only have patriots and great friends of Britain on the currency." The fake was built by splicing a genuine Farage post criticising the Bank of England for replacing Churchill with an invented second sentence and a doctored image. A Reform UK spokesperson confirmed the post was inauthentic.

The House of Lords voted to decriminalise women who seek abortions outside the existing legal framework — a fundamentally different thing from legalising abortion "up to birth." The 1967 Abortion Act's 24-week limit, the requirement for two doctors' sign-off, and criminal liability for healthcare providers all remain fully in place. The misinformation conflated "decriminalisation" (removing penalties for women) with "legalisation" (removing the limits).

A recurring false claim alleging Cadbury dropped "Easter" from its egg packaging. In reality, all UK Cadbury Easter eggs prominently reference Easter — sometimes multiple times — and the company has used the word in its marketing for over 100 years. The claim resurfaced in 2024 tied to a "gesture eggs" poster from an independent licensed store, which Cadbury disavowed, and again in 2025 with false "halal certified" allegations.