“UK residents will have to get microchipped starting from January 2021”
Social media posts
Claim dated 9 Jun 2020.
TheJournal.ie rated thisFalse
What TheJournal.ie found
A spokesperson for the UK Cabinet Office confirmed that the letter was "entirely fake". RFID chips cannot be used to track people.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 9 June 2020. TheJournal.ie (Ireland) looked into it and published its finding on 24 June 2020, 15 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/108364197487271/photos/a.108815857442105/144760690514288/?type=3…
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