Mevan Babakar

Deputy Chief Executive & Chief Operating Officer (former)

Mevan was the founding head of Full Fact’s automated fact checking team, which went on to win the Google AI for Social Good Impact Challenge. Mevan joined Full Fact in 2014 after working at Cancer Research in digital. She helped build Bite the Ballot where she launched Britain’s first ever National Voter Registration Day. She graduated with a Masters in Bioengineering.

4 August 2015

Immigration

A new Hong Kong in Northern Ireland?

By Sam Ashworth-Hayes • 2 mins

It was a plan "too preposterous for words" according to the Belfast Telegraph, but that didn't stop a number of outlets reporting seriously on it. Read

Fact checks

10 July 2015

How is the welfare budget split?

By Mevan Babakar • 1 min

Take a guess at how the welfare budget breaks down and see how close you are with a handy new tool from the ONS. Read

Analysis

1 June 2015

The election has been factchecked

By Mevan Babakar • 7 mins

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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