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Addressing Health Misinformation: Lessons from 2020
Last year, Full Fact co-hosted a virtual conference, Addressing Health Misinformation: Lessons from 2020, to discuss common misinformation challenges and best practice
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Fix information failures or risk lives: the Full Fact Report 2021
The pandemic exposed dangerous gaps in public data and communication systems - the government must act now to protect the public
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In 2021 you can reach us on WhatsApp
In September 2020 Full Fact launched a pilot WhatsApp service aiming to tackle misinformation on the platform, we will be continuing this work in 2021 too.
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A framework for information incidents: five levels of severity
Full Fact has published a third paper as part of an ongoing project to build a collaborative model for fighting bad information online
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Full Fact publishes new report on Facebook’s Third-Party Fact-Checking programme
Our second report on Full Fact's experience of the Third-Party Fact-Checking programme run by Facebook
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The challenges of online fact checking: how technology can (and can’t) help
New research report into the main challenges faced by global fact checkers when finding and checking claims online
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Eight days. Eight hundred donors. One huge thank you.
Our supporters helped us raise £55,000 in this year’s Big Give Christmas Challenge
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Responding to the challenges caused by information incidents
Full Fact has published its second paper as part of a new project to build a collaborative model for fighting bad information online
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Better communication needed to tackle gaps in understanding of economic statistics
Economic measures affect our lives in many ways. But research published today shows gaps in the pubic's understanding, and disillusionment and apathy about the economy.
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Bringing together the UK government, Facebook, and others to combat misinformation crises
With a coronavirus vaccine now potentially just months away, the global public deserves good information.
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Researching bad information: what we learned in 2020
Lessons for fact checkers, gaps in our knowledge and new directions
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Full Fact, Africa Check and Chequeado explore conspiracy theories and communicating uncertainty
In two new research briefings, Africa Check, Chequeado and Full Fact have teamed together to find out what we know about conspiracy theories and communicating uncertainty.
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