How We’re Using Generative AI to Transcribe Challenging Audio
OCT 1, 2025Cameron JohnstonData Science

How We’re Using Generative AI to Transcribe Challenging Audio

We build AI tools to help fact checkers monitor the enormous amounts of media they encounter every day. As well as online newspapers and social media posts, our users want to monitor news broadcasts, YouTube videos, radio programmes, podcasts and live events.

Keeping Pace with Misinformation: Why We Built an AI Team
SEP 22, 2025Kate WilkinsonTechnology

Keeping Pace with Misinformation: Why We Built an AI Team

Full Fact is an independent fact checking charity using AI to fight misinformation. We've developed Full Fact AI, a set of tools used by fact checkers around the world to find, check and challenge false information.

How AI can help fact checkers
FEB 11, 2025Dr David CorneyData Science

How AI can help fact checkers

At Full Fact we’ve been developing AI-powered tools for nearly 10 years. What can these tools do and how have they helped fact checkers around the world have a greater impact?

Full Fact AI supports African fact checkers in year of elections
DEC 13, 2024Kate WilkinsonInsights

Full Fact AI supports African fact checkers in year of elections

Half the world’s population lives in a country that held an election in 2024. Over 70 countries went to the polls, making it the biggest election year in human history

The AI Election: How Full Fact is Leveraging New Technology for UK General Election Fact Checking
JUN 14, 2024Kate WilkinsonInsights

The AI Election: How Full Fact is Leveraging New Technology for UK General Election Fact Checking

Explore how Full Fact is pioneering the positive use of AI in fact-checking amidst concerns about deepfakes and targeted political ads in the 2024 UK general election.

Using coin tossing to make our crowdsourcing more efficient
MAR 4, 2022Dr David CorneyData Science

Using coin tossing to make our crowdsourcing more efficient

A couple of weeks ago, we launched our second crowdsourcing project, asking thousands of generous supporters to help train our new Stats Checker tool

How thousands of helpers are training up our fact checking AI
FEB 15, 2022Andrew DudfieldUpdates

How thousands of helpers are training up our fact checking AI

Last autumn, over four thousand of supporters helped us match 250,000 claims in our 'Claim matching challenge'. But how exactly did it help improve our fact checking AI?

Towards a common definition of claim matching
OCT 5, 2021Dr David CorneyData Science

Towards a common definition of claim matching

We present a formal definition of what we mean by claim matching and relate this to others’ work and explore the scope of the problem.

How does Automated Fact Checking work?
JUL 5, 2021Dr David CorneyData Science

How does Automated Fact Checking work?

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionised our lives. So why not apply AI to fact checking?