Andrew Dudfield

Head of Full Fact AI

Andrew has led Full Fact’s artificial intelligence team since 2019, developing technology to tackle misinformation at internet scale by serving the needs of fact checkers around the world. Andy was previously the Chief Publishing Officer of the Office for National Statistics and prior to that spent a decade working in product and technology roles at the BBC.

26 September 2025

Google Search is vandalising the internet. Here’s how.

Google Search is misrepresenting our fact checks, showing incorrect information to millions.

6 August 2025

How to stop AI chatbots going rogue

When Grok went on an antisemitic tirade earlier this month, what really happened?

26 June 2025

The web just got a little harder to trust

Google’s decision to de-prioritise fact checks will make it harder for users to make informed choices

15 June 2023

Privileges Committee investigation alone won't rebuild public trust

MPs must do more to get their house in order—starting with Parliament's broken corrections system.

15 February 2022

How thousands of helpers are training up our fact checking AI

Last autumn, over four thousand of supporters helped us match 250,000 claims in our 'Claim matching challenge'. But how exactly did it help improve our fact checking AI?

12 May 2021

Why good statistics are so important for fact checkers

Fact checkers rely on data from national statistics institutes to do their work in fighting misinformation. The Open Data Institute and Full Fact interviewed fact checkers from around the world.

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2 April 2021

How AI helps us detect 100,000 potential claims a day

We can use new machine-learning tools to automatically identify checkable “claims” across online and broadcast media. At the moment, this averages to around 100,000 claims a day - 1,000 times more tha

28 July 2020

How we’re using AI to scale up global fact checking

Full Fact is using technology to increase the speed, reach and impact of its fact checking. We are developing AI tools to help highly trained fact checkers to be more efficient.

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Andrew Dudfield

Head of Full Fact AI

Google Search is vandalising the internet. Here’s how.

How to stop AI chatbots going rogue

The web just got a little harder to trust

Privileges Committee investigation alone won't rebuild public trust

How thousands of helpers are training up our fact checking AI

Why good statistics are so important for fact checkers

How AI helps us detect 100,000 potential claims a day

How we’re using AI to scale up global fact checking

Full Fact fights bad information