News & Online Editor
Grace joined Full Fact in March 2018 from the Press Association. She’s in charge of our work on the Third Party Fact Checking programme with Facebook and is particularly interested in debunking rumours spreading on social media.
She is a qualified journalist and has a Biology degree.
A viral post on Twitter claimed they can claim this every day and that it amounts to over £800,000. It doesn’t. Read
Rumours about the inventor of the process of PCR, which is used to test whether someone currently has Covid-19, have been spreading on social media. Read
A recent estimate put the figure between 800,000 and 1.2 million. Read
One post comparing punishments has over 20,000 shares on Facebook. Read
A social media post shared tens of thousands of times makes claims about the Rail to refuge Scheme. Read
A viral post compares the number of deaths from cancer, suicide, alcohol and Covid-19 in Ireland, but it gets a lot wrong. Read
A government consultation about unlicensed vaccines has been misunderstood online. Read
Posts claiming that viruses are just dead material and the body contains many viruses don’t disprove the fact that Covid-19 can be very harmful. Read
Social media posts claim the government is trying to quietly change the rules on unlicensed vaccines, but they’ve missed the point. Read
It used an edited picture of an Emirates aircraft above some houses. Read
