Economy, Business & Finance
Election 2017: what the parties haven’t told voters
Full Fact factchecks what the parties do say. Often what they haven't said matters even more. Read
Analysis
Will Moy
Chief Executive (former)
Will gave the Royal Statistical Society’s Beveridge Lecture Other Truths Are Available in 2018, co-authored The State of Automated Factchecking with Mevan Babakar in 2016, and regularly appears in the media and at events to discuss Full Fact’s work. Will has served on advisory groups for the ESRC, Ofcom, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Treasury, and regularly gives evidence to select committees and other inquiries. He has advised the ONS on a communications review and he was a Marketing Academy Scholar in 2018. He volunteers as a trainer on the NCVO’s Certificate in Campaigning for charities. Before Full Fact, Will worked in the House of Lords for non-party affiliated peer Lord Low of Dalston and for the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Transport Safety. He previously worked briefly in tech.
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Comment
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Comment
Full Fact calls for better election rules
Full Fact's letter to the Cabinet Secretary over purdah guidelines. Read
Comment
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Remember the bus? You probably know by now that it was wrong. Here's the story behind the claim. Read
Comment
The sitting room of the (very near) future
Coming soon to a screen near you: facts and factchecking. Read
Comment
Health
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How happy did you feel yesterday? There's less to this data than meets the headline. Read
Fact checks
Economy, Business & Finance
Wealth in the UK: The richest 1% and the poorest 20%
Oxfam claims that the richest 1% of UK wealth-holders own at least twenty-times more than the poorest 20%. That’s reasonable, but finding out what the wealthiest own is harder than you might expect. Read
Fact checks
The State of Automated Factchecking
We can scale up and speed up factchecking dramatically using technology that exists now. Here's how. Read
Comment
Europe
False claims about false claims about the EU referendum
Accusations of "completely untrue" claims on the membership fee, Turkey joining the EU, and an EU army aren't completely true. Read
Fact checks
