News & Online Journalist
Charlotte joined Full Fact in November 2023 as a news & online journalist from her role as a Local Democracy Reporter at the Manchester Evening News.
She was previously a senior news reporter with the Manchester Evening News, Rossendale Free Press and Accrington Observer titles.
Environment
Social media posts claim the earthquakes in Venezuela were engineered by HAARP, a research experiment often subject to misinformation. But experts say HAARP cannot create such natural disasters. Read
Immigration
The image, apparently showing men disembarking a lorry in the middle of a motorway, has been shared thousands of times, but a digital watermark suggests it was created or at least edited with AI. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Facebook posts falsely claim Smyths Toys is selling inflatable bouncy castles in exchange for filling out a short survey. Read
Crime
A video of a 17-year-old being detained by police has been shared with false claims that he died. Read
Immigration
A video circulating on Facebook which appears to show a navy officer saying small boat crossings are a violation of sovereignty isn’t real. It’s been generated with AI. Read
Culture & Society
The video, which claims to depict massive crowds that have ‘shut down London’ with a march demanding halal food standards, has hundreds of comments from people who mistakenly believe it to be real. Read
World
A picture is circulating on social media with false claims it shows a traffic jam of cars trying to leave Russian-annexed Crimea over fuel shortages. But it’s actually from Armenia. Read
Conflict
An old video from China in 2015 has been circulating with claims it depicts an attack on Ukraine which killed President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. But this is false. Read
Politics
Reform UK MP Lee Anderson claimed an image of a man holding a sign referencing Jimmy Savile was a “fake” version of another picture—but the other picture he shared appears to be AI-edited. Read
Crime
A video of a property on fire is being falsely shared as footage of recent disorder in Belfast, but the clip actually shows a separate incident from County Antrim which occurred in June 2025. Read
