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  • 2022-07-04 (xsd:date)
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  • Conspiracy theory about Boris Johnson not having Covid-19 is back (en)
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  • All staff at St Thomas’ Hospital were required to sign the Official Secrets Act when Boris Johnson was admitted with Covid-19. Two doctors who disagreed with his diagnosis refused, and were sent home 'on leave'. This is not true. It comes from an invented article labelled as satire. A satirical claim about Boris Johnson from a website called the Dorset Eye is once again being shared on Facebook as if it were true. The claim in its current form appears as a screenshot, in one case from a widely shared tweet, which itself includes a screenshot saying: Ms Fox retweeted a post that read: ‘Dorset Eye are reporting that when the PM was admitted to hospital, all staff were required to sign the official secrets act. 2 doctors who disagreed with his diagnosis refused, and were sent home 'on leave'. One of the doctors said 'if he has Covid19 I am not a doctor.’ This screenshot appears to come from TikTok, although we can’t find the original post. The reference to Ms Fox seems to come from an Independent article from 14 April 2020 about the then-chair of Labour’s National Executive Committee Andi Fox retweeting the conspiracy theory. Sources told the Independent she had done so by accident and later deleted it. The claim about Mr Johnson itself does indeed come from an article in the Dorset Eye. We checked similar claims based on this article back in April 2020, shortly after Mr Johnson was discharged from hospital, following his admission with Covid-19. There are several reasons not to believe the Dorset Eye article. St Thomas’ Hospital has confirmed that the Prime Minister was treated for Covid there. Image courtesy of 10 Downing Street This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook content—here. For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as false because this comes from an invented article labelled as satire. (en)
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