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.
Conflict
A ‘corpse’ that leaps up and runs as sirens sound was part of a staged funeral procession filmed in 2020, reportedly in Jordan. Read
Environment
A viral video uses AI to make it look like Elon Musk recently said over a billion people could die by 2030 due to water shortages. Read
World
A video claiming to show footage from the Flydubai flight where a pilot was reportedly stabbed combines visuals of a different flight flying over Dubai with audio from a 2022 turbulence video. Read
Politics
A video appears to show a large UK march for Palestine. It's fake. Both the audio and visuals carry Google's SynthID watermark. Read
Conflict
A clip of NATO soldiers is being shared with claims it is a new promotional clip. It was actually posted in 2024 to mark the alliance's 75th anniversary. Read
World
Viral posts claim Japan has banned halal food, mosques, burqas and the call to prayer. This is false. No such laws exist, and Japan's constitution guarantees religious freedom. Read
Politics
Josh Simons, whose resignation as an MP led to the by-election Andy Burnham won, has not been appointed to lead on policy at Downing Street. Read
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
