News & Online Journalist
Charlotte joined Full Fact in November 2023 as a news & online journalist from her role as a Local Democracy Reporter at the Manchester Evening News.
She was previously a senior news reporter with the Manchester Evening News, Rossendale Free Press and Accrington Observer titles.
Politics
A false claim that Ms Rayner has been appointed health secretary, alongside an AI-generated image of her smoking, has been circulating online. Read
World
An image being shared on social media with claims it shows a destroyed window on a Ryanair flight is an AI-generated fake, not a genuine photograph of the incident. Read
Politics
An image which appears to be a statement from City of York Council warning that residents “experience” flags as “racist” and “exclusionary” appears to have been faked. Read
Culture & Society
A viral video showing a security guard asking a woman in a niqab to leave a Tesco store isn’t genuine footage. Tesco confirmed this is not real store policy. Read
Crime
An image of a fake Glasgow City Council poster warning about “reports of sexual assaults” is not genuine. Read
Europe
A video of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni saying "we won’t allow Sharia law to be implemented in Italy" circulating online is an AI-generated deepfake. Read
Sport
Claims being shared online that the England captain stated he will not wear the LGBT rainbow symbol in upcoming matches are false. Read
Crime
The Ministry of Justice confirmed that Varley, who was sentenced to life for the murder and sexual abuse of the baby boy he was adopting, hasn’t been attacked in prison as claimed on social media. Read
Environment
Social media posts claim the earthquakes in Venezuela were engineered by HAARP, a research experiment often subject to misinformation. But experts say HAARP cannot create such natural disasters. Read
Immigration
The image, apparently showing men disembarking a lorry in the middle of a motorway, has been shared thousands of times, but a digital watermark suggests it was created or at least edited with AI. Read
