Claim Glasgow City Council put up posters of ‘high risk’ areas for sexual assault is False
Posters appeared on social media purporting to be from the local authority, but they are fake.
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Sam and Ali return for a jam-packed 17th FFS Show.
On this podcast, we find out whether Andrew Marr was right to doubt Boris Johnson’s claim on wages.
Sam puts Ali on the spot over a claim about Bill Gates, leading to the creation of a new discipline: ‘vague fact-checking’.
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