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International Factchecking Network Code of Principles

By Amy Hawkins • 3 mins

Full Fact has signed up to an international Code of Principles for factcheckers. Read

Full Fact nominated for a WIRED Social Innovation Award

By Amy Hawkins • 2 mins

Full Fact have been nominated for a WIRED and Audi Innovation Award. Read

Introducing the Need to Know project

By Full Fact Team • 1 min

A new joint project between Full Fact, the ESRC, the House of Commons Library, and the UK Statistics Authority. Read

Has the public really had enough of experts?

By Amy Hawkins • 4 mins

Experts need to build trust and understand people's individual experiences, if they are to be listened to. Read

Wanted: "An honest and responsive government"

By Amy Hawkins • 2 mins

A UN consultation of nearly 10 million people found that having "an honest and responsive government" matters more to most people than affordable food. Read

The first automated factcheck

By Giacomo Boscaini-Gilroy • 2 mins

Giacomo writes about how he built our first automated factcheck. Read

Dodgy uses of statistics and how the BBC can avoid them

By Phoebe Arnold and Amy Hawkins • 6 mins

We were glad to see the BBC Trust take up our recommendations in its recent report on the BBC's coverage and use of statistics. Read

Open Democracy corrects claim about deaths in police custody

By Phoebe Arnold • 1 min

We are grateful to Open Democracy for correcting their article. Read

The Times sets an example with correction to cost of bed blocking claim

By Phoebe Arnold • 1 min

The Times published a front page correction to its article on the cost of bedblocking. Read

The State of Automated Factchecking

By Will Moy and Mevan Babakar • 2 mins

We can scale up and speed up factchecking dramatically using technology that exists now. Here's how. Read