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15 July 2025

The Elections Bill: an opportunity to protect our democracy from misinformation and disinformation

Full Fact Briefing on the Elections Bill

11 July 2025

An Urgent Call for Action: Committee Report on Social Media, Misinformation and Harmful Algorithms

Full Fact responds to the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee Report on Misinformation.

Smoke billows from a fire started by protesters as riot police stand guard after disturbances near the Southport Islamic Society Mosque in Southport, northwest England, on July 30, 2024, a day after a deadly child knife attack

11 July 2025

The Online Safety Act must go further: Chi Onwurah MP for the Full Fact Report

Comment piece for the 2025 Full Fact Report by Chi Onwurah MP, Chair of the Science, Technology and Innovation Select Committee

2 July 2025

Our verdict on Labour’s first year: nowhere near enough action to restore trust

See Full Fact's take on what the government has and hasn't done in its first year to heal the public's "lack of trust" in politics.

Keir Starmer in Downing St on day of election

26 June 2025

The web just got a little harder to trust

Google’s decision to de-prioritise fact checks will make it harder for users to make informed choices

21 May 2025

Corrections secured, but more needed - if politicians don’t set the record straight, we will

Find out who has and hasn't corrected in the last week, and see what Full Fact is now doing to get more politicians to set the record straight.

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30 April 2025

Full Fact doesn't just check claims from politicians - we check lots of false claims about them too

Our fact checking of claims on Facebook has already identified 17 false and misleading claims about politicians this year.

28 April 2025

Disinformation and misinformation must remain the primary focus of Ofcom’s Committee

Words like disinformation and misinformation seem to have fallen out of favour since the Trump administration came to office.

25 April 2025

Teaching on conspiracy theories should start in primary schools

Early intervention is crucial to breaking a cycle where one in four UK adults struggle to distinguish between true and false information.

13 March 2025

Full Fact responds to Meta’s Community Notes Plan

Today, Meta has published details of their community notes programme. Meta’s proposed system will be rolled out on March 18 and will be based on X’s community notes model.

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The Elections Bill: an opportunity to protect our democracy from misinformation and disinformation

An Urgent Call for Action: Committee Report on Social Media, Misinformation and Harmful Algorithms

The Online Safety Act must go further: Chi Onwurah MP for the Full Fact Report

Our verdict on Labour’s first year: nowhere near enough action to restore trust

The web just got a little harder to trust

Corrections secured, but more needed - if politicians don’t set the record straight, we will

Full Fact doesn't just check claims from politicians - we check lots of false claims about them too

Disinformation and misinformation must remain the primary focus of Ofcom’s Committee

Teaching on conspiracy theories should start in primary schools

Full Fact responds to Meta’s Community Notes Plan

Full Fact fights bad information