New AI Tool Lets You Test Whether Politicians Repeat False Claims

An influential fact-checking organisation is rolling out an AI tool to try to monitor and prevent an onslaught of misinformation and disinformation ahead of the UK's upcoming general election this year.

Full Fact, a leading UK organisation which fact-checks claims made by public figures and users of online platforms, has been expanding the rollout of a new AI-powered tool which enables a quicker and more efficient way to filter and identify online misinformation. 

They began to develop the tool in 2019 and in the years since have been expanding the number of clients who subscribe to access and use it. As well as in the UK, Full Fact's tool is now being used by fact-checkers from South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Senegal, Australia, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine, Sudan, Tunisia, and Yemen.

By using AI to filter through vast amounts of online data from news websites and major social media platforms, the tool helps users find and monitor the most important things to fact-check on a daily basis. It allows you to be able to see what is being said in a public debate and who is saying it, with different features which allow you to search by topic, speaker, or political party.

"AI really allows the media monitoring and claim identification to be taken off the hands of fact-checkers, so that they can focus on doing what they do best, which is understanding context and nuance, finding experts, looking at data, analysing and understanding it and then importantly, communicating their findings to communities that are affected by misinformation," Full Fact's senior product manager Kate Wilkinson said.

"Full Fact has really invested in this space as far back as 2012, because it's really understood that we cannot counter the