Science & Technology

Science & Technology

How to stop AI chatbots going rogue

By Andrew Dudfield • 4 mins

When Grok went on an antisemitic tirade earlier this month, what really happened? Read

Science & Technology

One year on, has the Government learned the lessons from the Southport Riots?

By Azzurra Moores • 5 mins

One year after the widespread disorder of summer 2024, what more authorities and platforms can do to prevent violence driven by unchecked misinformation? Read

Crime

What the UK riots taught us about social media failure

By Zoe Manzi and Hannah Rose • 3 mins

Comment piece for the 2025 Full Fact Report by By Zoe Manzi and Hannah Rose, Hate and Extremism Analysts at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. Read

Science & Technology

Mis(sing) information: The impact of disappearing archives and data sources

By Claire Wardle • 6 mins

Discover how digital decay and disappearing archives weaken public scrutiny and fuel misinformation. Read

Science & Technology

An Urgent Call for Action: Committee Report on Social Media, Misinformation and Harmful Algorithms

By Azzurra Moores • 4 mins

Full Fact responds to the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee Report on Misinformation. Read

Science & Technology

The Online Safety Act must go further: Chi Onwurah MP for the Full Fact Report

By Chi Onwurah MP • 2 mins

Comment piece for the 2025 Full Fact Report by Chi Onwurah MP, Chair of the Science, Technology and Innovation Select Committee Read

Science & Technology

The web just got a little harder to trust

By Andrew Dudfield • 4 mins

Google’s decision to de-prioritise fact checks will make it harder for users to make informed choices Read

Full Fact responds to Meta’s Community Notes Plan

By Full Fact Team • 2 mins

Today, Meta has published details of their community notes programme. Meta’s proposed system will be rolled out on March 18 and will be based on X’s community notes model. Read

How our fact checking work with Meta makes a real-world difference

By Full Fact Team • 5 mins

Full Fact has been a proud contributor to the Third Party Fact Checking initiative. Since January 2019 we’ve checked 2,596 cases of misleading, faked, or potentially harmful posts on Meta platforms. Read

Full Fact responds to Meta ending support for US fact checkers

By Chris Morris • 2 mins

Fact checkers refute allegations of bias in Meta’s ‘disappointing backwards step’ to end fact checking partnerships Read