Hacker News
- Google snippets falsely claimed eating glass has health benefits https://fullfact.org/health/google-snippet-eating-glass/ 5 comments
- Are one million people in the UK using anabolic steroids? (2022) https://fullfact.org/health/steroids-bodybuilding-image-prevalence/ 151 comments
- The number of people dying is not the same as in any other year https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-figures-talk-radio/ 104 comments
- Automatically spotting interesting sentences in parliamentary debates https://fullfact.org/blog/getting_closer_automated_factchecking 3 comments
- UK not the only country in Europe that allows shops to refuse cash https://fullfact.org/online/UK-not-only-europe-country-legal-to-refuse-cash/ 40 comments europe
- A website where there's a list of UK MPs who have not corrected the record on their false claims - Full Fact https://fullfact.org/updates/mps-who-have-not-corrected-the-record/ 18 comments internetisbeautiful
- The Spanish Meteorological Agency has not ‘confessed’ to using chemtrails https://fullfact.org/online/spanish-chemtrails/ 7 comments europe
- 5G tower with ‘Delta’ power system is not related to Covid-19 https://fullfact.org/online/5g-tower-with-delta-power-system-is-not-related-to-covid-19/ 647 comments nottheonion
- 5G tower with ‘Delta’ power system is not related to Covid-19 - Full Fact https://fullfact.org/online/5g-tower-with-delta-power-system-is-not-related-to-covid-19/ 16 comments worldnews
- Getting a Covid-19 vaccine doesn’t mean you can connect to Bluetooth - Full Fact https://fullfact.org/online/vaccine-magnet-bluetooth/ 24 comments nottheonion
- Getting a Covid-19 vaccine doesn’t mean you can connect to Bluetooth https://fullfact.org/online/vaccine-magnet-bluetooth/ 15 comments nottheonion
- Dead birds in India were not killed by 5G https://fullfact.org/online/dead-birds-india-were-not-killed-5g/ 7 comments nottheonion
- Dead birds in India were not killed by 5G https://fullfact.org/online/dead-birds-india-were-not-killed-5g/ 20 comments worldnews
- Fake football quotes go viral https://fullfact.org/news/football-klopp-mourinho-ferguson-fake-quotes/ 12 comments soccer
- A surprisingly large rat is really just surprisingly close https://fullfact.org/online/not-a-giant-rat-tooting/ 4 comments nottheonion
- “Article 61” of Magna Carta doesn’t allow you to ignore Covid-19 regulations https://fullfact.org/online/did-she-die-in-vain/ 3 comments nottheonion
- A retracted paper linking 5G and coronavirus with no evidence is doing the rounds on Facebook https://fullfact.org/online/facebook-retracted-paper/ 35 comments worldnews
- A baseless paper that linked skin cells, 5G and coronavirus has been retracted https://fullfact.org/online/5g-skin-cells-paper/ 6 comments science
- Public Health England: New COVID-19 antibody tests are not 100% accurate on all measures [14 days after symptoms: Roche claimed 100% sensitivity, PHE found 87%; Abbott claimed 100% sensitivity, PHE found 93.4%] https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-antibody-tests-accuracy/ 13 comments science
- UK: MPs salaries have grown faster than starting salaries of nurses, teachers and police officers http://fullfact.org/online/public-sector-salaries/ 7 comments worldnews
- UK Tory Party caught sharing doctored footage of Labour MP Kier Starmer https://fullfact.org/news/keir-starmer-gmb/?fbclid=iwar00wyfnpevxcfhmyde2kqs8-tciupr-su6q5lbcc2xn8obnmwvjdxajlqa 20 comments worldnews
- A new Brexit bill doesn’t allow the EU to unilaterally extend the Brexit date https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-cannot-unilaterally-extend-brexit-date/ 65 comments europe
- EU immigration to the UK has been bigger than we thought https://fullfact.org/immigration/eu-immigration-uk-has-been-bigger-we-thought/ 7 comments europe
- Full Fact: Does Poland’s migration policy explain its lack of terror attacks? https://fullfact.org/online/does-polands-migration-policy-explain-its-lack-terror-attacks/ 50 comments europe
- EU citizens living in the UK https://fullfact.org/media/uploads/eu%20citizens%20living%20in%20the%20uk.png 415 comments europe
- Germany hasn't accepted 800,000 or millions of Syrian refugees https://fullfact.org/immigration/ask-full-fact-germany-hasnt-accepted-800000-syrian-refugees/ 20 comments worldnews
- The EU has shrunk as a percentage of the world economy https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-has-shrunk-percentage-world-economy/ 125 comments europe
Linking pages
- Expanding fact checking at Google https://blog.google/topics/journalism-news/expanding-fact-checking-google/ 274 comments
- Devoid of agility, charisma and credibility, Corbyn has led Labour into the abyss | Polly Toynbee | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/13/jeremy-corbyn-labour-manifesto-antisemitism-brexit 169 comments
- Facebook isn't going to influence the next election – until it does | Alex Hern | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2019/oct/23/facebook-influence-next-election-democratic 32 comments
- 4 science-based strategies to tame angry political debate and encourage tolerance https://theconversation.com/4-science-based-strategies-to-tame-angry-political-debate-and-encourage-tolerance-130984 26 comments
- The Illustrated BERT, ELMo, and co. (How NLP Cracked Transfer Learning) – Jay Alammar – Visualizing machine learning one concept at a time. https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-bert/ 20 comments
- Populism & Copyright, Part I: The ‘Link Tax‘ | by Tom Edwards | Medium https://medium.com/@artfunkel/populism-copyright-1-linktax-7fa4f9417bb6 19 comments
- Matt Hancock is wrong about herd immunity - UnHerd https://unherd.com/2020/10/matt-hancock-is-wrong-about-herd-immunity/ 14 comments
- Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Top 50 Organizations to Know https://www.racket.news/p/report-on-the-censorship-industrial-74b 10 comments
- GitHub - jivoi/awesome-osint: A curated list of amazingly awesome OSINT https://github.com/jivoi/awesome-osint 8 comments
- Fact checking in the aftermath of a historic election - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/11/10/fact-checking-in-the-aftermath-of-an-historic-election/ 7 comments
- General election 2019: 'Misleading' Abbott tweet used in Labour campaign - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/50352176 3 comments
- Google introduces fact checking feature intended to help people see whether news is actually true | The Independent | The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/google-fact-checking-presidential-election-candidates-news-hoax-fake-real-a7361231.html 2 comments
- Take care with what you share - Home https://sharechecklist.gov.uk/ 1 comment
- Radio presenter tells Insulate Britain protestor cement grows on trees | JOE.co.uk https://www.joe.co.uk/news/radio-presenter-tells-insulate-britain-protestor-cement-grows-on-trees-296236 1 comment
- Facebook culls 'tens of thousands' of fake accounts ahead of UK election • TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/08/facebook-culls-tens-of-thousands-of-fake-accounts-ahead-of-uk-election/ 0 comments
- The origin of the Mechanical Turk and Stalin’s “deepfakes” | by Roya Pakzad | Humane AI | Medium https://medium.com/humane-ai/humane-ai-newsletter-13-the-origin-of-the-mechanical-turk-and-stalins-deepfakes-59438df68496 0 comments
- Using a blockchain-based reputation and reward system to fix fact-checking | by Martins Vaivars | Medium https://medium.com/@martins_vaivars/using-a-blockchain-based-reputation-and-reward-system-to-fix-fact-checking-48229d8637e0 0 comments
- Our nine-point guide to spotting a dodgy statistic | Science | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jul/17/politicians-dodgy-statistics-tricks-guide 0 comments
- Pandemic sim Plague Inc. pulled from Chinese app stores - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/2020/2/27/21156614/plague-inc-coronavirus-pulled-china-ios-android 0 comments
- An open letter to YouTube’s CEO from the world’s fact-checkers | by Code for Africa | Code For Africa | Medium https://medium.com/code-for-africa/an-open-letter-to-youtubes-ceo-from-the-world-s-fact-checkers-a4a734f1d76d 0 comments