At the end of April, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Latvia would resume funding to the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, which provides assistance to Palestinian refugees in various countries. This caused a storm on the social network X (previously known as Twitter), where many users reacted to the news by claiming that Latvia had decided to fund Hamas terrorists. Is this really the case? This is an explainer on what is UNRWA, why a number of countries froze its funding and why some have restored it.

False – the statement is untrue, there is no evidence to support it, the author is lying or unintentionally sharing misleading information.

The MP and candidate for the European Parliament elections Edvīns Šnore (the National Alliance party) made a statement on a TikTok video claiming that thousands of “illegal immigrants” arrive in England by boat every day and that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has forbidden the country to “send them back to Africa”. This is not true. 

False – the statement is untrue, there is no evidence to support it, the author is lying or unintentionally sharing misleading information.

In the middle of the week, claims appeared on social media that under the influence of the Green Deal the government will ban the use of wood, pellets and briquettes for heating private homes. This is not true – there are no such plans. The false claims were spread on the internet by Tālis Linkaits, the former Minister for Transport and now a candidate for the European Parliament from the New Conservative Party (Jaunā konservatīvā partija), and a number of politicians from the Latvia First party (Latvija pirmajā vietā).