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News and updates from the Full Fact team
Automatically spotting interesting sentences in parliamentary debates
Jake has been volunteering at Full Fact for several weeks now. As part of our work towards more automated factchecking, we showed him the work of Simone Teufel on extracting information …
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The election has been factchecked
We have checked a constant stream of political claims during the past 6 weeks, analysed the manifestos in detail, and promoted these findings as widely as we could for the …
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Full Fact Podcast: Episode 4
We've launched a podcast for the election. Each week we'll bring you the facts behind the headlines, and news from our election HQ where the team is working 18 hour a …
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The faces behind Full Fact
Today, viewers of the Andrew Marr show were treated to a glimpse behind the scenes at Full Fact's election centre. Bringing you the facts behind the spin is a demanding job, …
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Full Fact's election centre is homeless
Staring March 30th we plan to run an 18 hour a day factchecking center. We will work tirelessly to make sure that no claim goes unchallenged during the election. The …
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We need volunteers to monitor the media and parties
Full Fact is preparing to operate an 18 hour a day factchecking centre, from 6am to midnight every day of the election campaign.
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The Big Monitoring Project
It's open data day, and we need open data about election campaigns.
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Spin off: how some of the UK's top research organisations are supporting factchecking
Inaccurate claims arent necessarily down to malicious intent. Often, they come about because people dont understand the evidence or theyre in a hurry. But whatever the reason, inaccurate information does …
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We want to factcheck the 2015 General Election.
We want to factcheck from 6am to midnight, every day, for the six week run up to the election in May. To do this we need £25,000 to kit out our …
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Full Fact Vs Scroobius Pip
While most of Scroobius Pip’s guests on his Distraction Pieces podcast are celebrities, he also likes to interview people “that aren’t as famous but are very much worth our audience …
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Christmas in graphs #5
The answer to the penultimate question on our Christmas quiz — did you get it right?
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Full Fact fights bad information
Bad information ruins lives. It promotes hate, damages people’s health, and hurts democracy. You deserve better.