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News and updates from the Full Fact team

16 September 2016

Has the public really had enough of experts?

Experts need to build trust and understand people's individual experiences, if they are to be listened to.

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15 September 2016

Wanted: "An honest and responsive government"

A UN consultation of nearly 10 million people found that having "an honest and responsive government" matters more to most people than affordable food.

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7 September 2016

The first automated factcheck

Giacomo writes about how he built our first automated factcheck.

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7 September 2016

A typology of caveats

A typology of statistical context that includes information and caveats that affect how we might otherwise interpret the figures.

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7 September 2016

Statistics are not just numbers: they require context to be useful

We're working on a project to create an open standard for sharing the bits of statistics that aren't numbers: the caveats, context and explanations. Here's why.

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7 September 2016

The State of Automated Factchecking

We can scale up and speed up factchecking dramatically using technology that exists now. Here's how.

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6 September 2016

The election has been factchecked

We have checked a constant stream of political claims during the past 6 weeks, analysed the manifestos in detail, and promoted these findings as widely as we could for the 2015 general election.

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22 August 2016

Dodgy uses of statistics and how the BBC can avoid them

We were glad to see the BBC Trust take up our recommendations in its recent report on the BBC's coverage and use of statistics.

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22 August 2016

Automated Factchecking: decision time

Giacomo talks about the decisions he's made in building the tools for automated factchecking

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19 August 2016

Open Democracy corrects claim about deaths in police custody

We are grateful to Open Democracy for correcting their article.

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19 August 2016

The Times sets an example with correction to cost of bed blocking claim

The Times published a front page correction to its article on the cost of bedblocking.

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4 August 2016

The summer of 2016: what do you make of it?

Full Fact was on BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze, talking about trust in politics, and trust in facts.

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