Journalist
Elise joined Full Fact in September 2026. Previously, she co-founded foodfacts.org and served as its Director of Research for two years, overseeing its work fact checking nutrition and health misinformation. Elise has a PhD in Cognitive Linguistics, and is particularly interested in how misinformation and disinformation narratives develop and spread, and in finding ways to improve public debate.
World
A clip shared on Facebook recently actually shows a demonstration which took place last year to mark the anniversary of a rail disaster. Read
United States
An altered video of the South Tower attack is circulating again, implying no plane hit the building on 9/11. But the video has been edited to remove the plane. Read
Immigration
Census data doesn’t support this claim—this percentage is closer to the figure for white British people in London, not white people generally. Read
Environment
A viral video uses AI to falsely show Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg claiming humans have one year of water left. Read
World
Online posts falsely claim the Nepal flood was a hoax because early reports repeatedly cited the number 33. Read
