Commentary on the state of misinformation, and news from the Full Fact team.
Last year we factchecked a debate on Twitter about mental health. Since then we’ve been working to make sure that all the figures are accurate and publically available, and we can now update you on ou Read
We conducted our first large-scale audience research in autumn 2017, to find out about who follows our work and why. Read
A day in the life of Full Fact factchecker, Claire Milne, who appeared on BBC Live Lessons to teach 11-14 year-olds about how to spot misinformation in the news. Read
The Future of Promise Tracking is an in-depth report which examines promise tracking from first principles and builds towards recommendations on how a high-quality promise tracker can be built. Read
Statistics help us make decisions that affect our lives. The UK Statistics Authority has published a new Code of Practice to safeguard the quality and value of statistics. Read
Here's how we customised Prodigy, an annotation tool, to collect 25,000+ annotations from 90 amazing volunteers, in aid of our automated factchecking project. Read
The Bank of England's new visual summary is aimed squarely at an everyday audience. There are bite-sized pieces of information, no jargon, and the sentences are short. Read
The UK is lucky to have independent statistics. It’s not a permanent state of affairs. Read
The term is too vague to be useful and has been weaponised by politicians. Read
In December, we factchecked a Twitter debate between Jeremy Hunt and Ralf Little on mental health. Find out how we're following up. Read
