Mevan Babakar

Deputy Chief Executive & Chief Operating Officer (former)

Mevan was the founding head of Full Fact’s automated fact checking team, which went on to win the Google AI for Social Good Impact Challenge. Mevan joined Full Fact in 2014 after working at Cancer Research in digital. She helped build Bite the Ballot where she launched Britain’s first ever National Voter Registration Day. She graduated with a Masters in Bioengineering.

9 March 2020

How we spoke to 77 fact checkers and helped 21 of them start using Claim Review Schema

In 2019 we ran a project that helped more of our fact checking colleagues around the world adopt Claim Review Schema, and to train them to use it correctly.

29 May 2018

Crowdsourced Factchecking

There is a role for crowdsourcing in factchecking but (so far) it’s not factchecking

29 June 2017

Automated Factchecking at Full Fact

Full Fact’s automated factchecking project is central both to the future of our factchecking work and to answering the worldwide need to scale up the work of factcheckers.

27 May 2017

#GE17 and The Nuffield Foundation

The Nuffield Foundation has awarded Full Fact £40,000 to ensure public debate in the run-up to the General Election is informed by independent and rigorous evidence.

25 January 2017

#FactHack: Our hackathon at Facebook, with Flax

Alongside Flax, the open source search specialists, we decided to run a hackathon to try and solve some of the big problems we face with automated factchecking.

17 November 2016

Google supports Full Fact to build automated factchecking tools

Google's Digital News Initiative announces €50,000 grant to Full Fact to the build the first end-to-end automated factchecking tool.

17 November 2016

Automated Fact Checking

Full Fact has set out an open roadmap for automated fact checking and is developing the first end-to-end automated fact checking tools.

17 August 2016

The State of Automated Factchecking

We can scale up and speed up factchecking dramatically using technology that exists now. Here's how.

30 June 2016

The referendum is over. We're just getting started.

We are asking you for a regular donation to help us pioneer this work. The EU referendum result means we’re now at the start, not the end, of a long public debate over how we leave the EU.

22 June 2016

The EU referendum, factchecked

Thank you to everyone who helped Full Fact factcheck the EU referendum. Here's what we achieved.

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Mevan Babakar

Deputy Chief Executive & Chief Operating Officer (former)

How we spoke to 77 fact checkers and helped 21 of them start using Claim Review Schema

Crowdsourced Factchecking

Automated Factchecking at Full Fact

#GE17 and The Nuffield Foundation

#FactHack: Our hackathon at Facebook, with Flax

Google supports Full Fact to build automated factchecking tools

Automated Fact Checking

The State of Automated Factchecking

The referendum is over. We're just getting started.

The EU referendum, factchecked

Full Fact fights bad information