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Doctors are being deepfaked to spread misinformation

Did Rachel Reeves mislead the public ahead of the Budget?

Don’t take down your Christmas lights! There is no £500 ‘Christmas Decoration Tax’

Multiple videos shared hundreds of times on social media falsely claim that the government is introducing a £500 “Christmas Decoration Tax”. There is, of course, no such policy.

This is the latest example in a series of alarmist videos we’ve seen being shared online that make false and misleading claims about supposed new government policies that affect people’s personal freedoms.

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