Fact-checkers criticise Tory press office’s Twitter ‘deception’ as ‘self-evidently wrong’
Fact-checkers have said the Conservative Party’s temporary rebrand of its press office Twitter account to appear as a fact-checking service…
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Twitter warns against ‘attempts to mislead’ as Conservatives criticised for ‘fact-check’ rebrand
Twitter has warned that it will use “decisive corrective action” to combat any further attempts to mislead the public on…
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Full Fact shares tips for effective fact-checking during election campaign
Corrections to stories are “significantly more effective” at countering misinformation when they are published by the original source rather than…
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Claim Question Time put BBC editor’s son in audience as Brexit supporter debunked as hoax
A claim that BBC Question Time hired the son of Politics Live editor Rob Burley to pose as a Brexit…
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Full Fact’s Will Moy: ‘Journalists have failed to recognise they are part of an adversarial process at the moment’
The following is a response from Will Moy (pictured, right), chief executive of fact-checking charity Full Fact, to a question…
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Fact checking articles in a bid to reach the same number of readers as the initial falsehoods they correct is…
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Facebook must expand fact-checking scheme to Instagram and share more data, says Full Fact
Full Fact has called on Facebook to expand its third-party fact-checking service to Instagram and urged other social media platforms…
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Full Fact wins Google grant to develop automated fact check tools
Fact-checking charity Full Fact has won funding from Google to develop online tools for use in the fight against so-called…
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