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Commentary on the state of misinformation, and news from the Full Fact team.

24 December 2014

Christmas in graphs #2

For the second question in our Christmas quiz, did you guess right? Read

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23 December 2014

Christmas in graphs #1

Over the next few days Full Fact is holding a Christmas quiz on our Twitter and Facebook pages. Did you guess this one right? Read

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11 December 2014

A gunge tank to jazz things up a bit

Every now and then people come up with great ideas for factchecking. From apps to buzzers to slime, here are some of our favourites: While we wait for a politician … Read

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1 December 2014

Excel hell

This week sees the launch of a good practice guide for releasing official statistics in spreadsheets. This might not sound important, but if you look behind the uniform face of … Read

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10 November 2014

See you at the pub?

With the election less than 180 days away, we are preparing to operate an 18 hour a day Election Centre. From there we’ll react rapidly to claims during the campaign … Read

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28 October 2014

General election 2015: what issues should we check?

During the Scottish referendum campaign, Ipsos Mori asked people in Scotland how easy or difficult it was to find trustworthy information. 61% found it fairly or very difficult. We can … Read

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