Dr David Corney

Senior Data Scientist

David joined Full Fact in 2019 as a data scientist specialising in natural language processing. He helps bring AI into Full Fact’s tools to better support fact checkers and other colleagues. David has previously worked in academia and for tech startups, where he developed tools to analyse news articles and other text.

11 February 2025

How AI can help fact checkers

At Full Fact we’ve been developing AI-powered tools for nearly 10 years. What can these tools do and how have they helped fact checkers around the world have a greater impact?

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14 June 2024

The AI Election: How Full Fact is Leveraging New Technology for UK General Election Fact Checking

Explore how Full Fact is pioneering the positive use of AI in fact-checking amidst concerns about deepfakes and targeted political ads in the 2024 UK general election.

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4 March 2022

Using coin tossing to make our crowdsourcing more efficient

A couple of weeks ago, we launched our second crowdsourcing project, asking thousands of generous supporters to help train our new Stats Checker tool

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5 October 2021

Towards a common definition of claim matching

We present a formal definition of what we mean by claim matching and relate this to others’ work and explore the scope of the problem.

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5 July 2021

How does Automated Fact Checking work?

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionised our lives. So why not apply AI to fact checking?

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6 December 2019

How we use AI to help fact check party manifestos

As part of our efforts to fact check the 2019 general election, we’ve been using our AI tools to scrutinise the manifestos of the main parties.

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21 October 2019

Review and reflections: Truth and Trust Online 2019

We summarise the event and reflect on some of the key takeaways.

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