Migrants and the benefits system: let's see the evidence
The evidence behind the Prime Minister's claims on EU migrants and benefits needs to be published. Read
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Commentary on the state of misinformation, and news from the Full Fact team.
User-friendly statistics: "What you can say, and what you can't"
We like the Justice Data Lab's user-friendly health warnings on the statistics it produces. Read
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Department of Health to speed up responses to media and Full Fact
The Department of Health has revealed it will introduce measures which should mean if a claim can't be quickly substantiated it won't make it into a speech. Read
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A typology of caveats
A typology of statistical context that includes information and caveats that affect how we might otherwise interpret the figures. Read
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DWP uses 'made up' claimants in benefits leaflet
A benefits leaflet published by the Department for Work and Pensions contained 'made up' claimants, which have now been removed. Read
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FoI madness, but not as we know it
Recent experiences of how requests under the Freedom of Information Act are handled leave us cold. Read
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Statistics are not just numbers: they require context to be useful
We're working on a project to create an open standard for sharing the bits of statistics that aren't numbers: the caveats, context and explanations. Here's why. Read
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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 … Read
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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 2015 general election. Read
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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 … Read
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