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News and updates from the Full Fact team
Statistics watchdog challenges government's ‘disappointing’ false employment claims
OSR challenge PM's false employment claims in letter to Downing Street
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Spotify must change its tune on Covid misinformation
Full Fact response to Spotify chief executive Daniel Ek's open letter.
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Full Fact releases updated and improved framework to fight misinformation
This iteration of the Framework introduces a five step process for using the Framework and template spreadsheets to aid collaboration among or between teams.
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80 fact checkers publish open letter to YouTube demanding effective action against disinformation
Fact checkers around the world are asking YouTube to create a roadmap of policy and product interventions to improve the information ecosystem, including working with non-partisan fact checkers.
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Full Fact welcomes Joint Committee's Online Safety Bill report—but questions on freedom of expression unanswered
The Joint Committee on the Draft Online Safety Bill published their report on the government’s proposed legislation, due next year.
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Four thousand steps closer to honesty
We’re grateful to the 4,257 donors who fought back against bad information this year.
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Standards in public life cannot be upheld without a focus on honesty
Full Fact response to 'Upholding Standards in Public Life, the Final report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life Standards Matter 2 review
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UK public as concerned by the spread of misinformation as immigration and Brexit and the EU
UK public as concerned by the spread of misinformation as immigration and Brexit and the EU
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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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Fact checking works: results from a new international study
New evidence that fact checking significantly reduces belief in misinformation.
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Covid vaccines and pregnancy: fact checked
Pregnant women can request good, reliable information using our new helpline
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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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Full Fact fights bad information
Bad information ruins lives. It promotes hate, damages people’s health, and hurts democracy. You deserve better.