Mastodawn

@mazigazi @mf_newsdigest This not about what to use as a search engine, there are indeed alternatives for Google Search such as Ecosia, or DuckDuckGo or Qwant.

This is about Google who used to sponsor FullFact but now has stopped doing so.

Unless Ecosia, or Qwant, or DuckDuckGo now send a million per year Fullfact’s way then this is a loss for most people.

#FullFact #FactChecking

MediaFaro News Digest Oct 18

Google cuts funding to Full Fact.

Google has ended its support for fact checker Full Fact. The company has been one of its biggest funders over the last three years, helping it build some of the best AI tools for fact checking in the world.

Full Fact received over £1m from Google last year, either directly or via funds the company supports.

These have all either not been renewed, or have been cut altogether.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20251016-google-cuts-funding-to-full-fact?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Google #FullFact #FactChecking #AI #Tech #Disinformation

Google cuts funding to Full Fact.

Google has ended its support for fact checker Full Fact. The company has been one of its biggest funders over the last three years, helping it build some of the …

Full Fact

w Oct 17

'The word “misinformation” is now all but banned among any in the US relying on government approval: the US National Science Foundation, for instance, terminated grants worth many millions it had awarded to researchers studying misinformation'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/17/trump-anti-truth-crusade-facts-jd-vance-nigel-farage-censorship

#misinformation #antitruth #censorship #factchecking #guardian #pollytoynbee #unitedstates #google #meta #flatearth #trump #jdvance #NigelFarage #OnlineSafetyAct #FullFact

Trump’s anti-truth crusade is not just an attack on facts – it’s an unravelling of the Enlightenment

The US president, JD Vance and Nigel Farage seem to believe that checking facts is a form of censorship. Nonsense: speech is only free when it is anchored in truth, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian

Simon Greenwood Oct 15

I got an email from UK fact checking organisation Full Fact yesterday saying that Google had withdrawn funding from them, a million quid a year. That's a drop in the ocean to Google. Does Google want to be the only source of truth? #fullfact #degoogleyourlife

jan Apr 18, 2025

A conscious field plus its object as felt or thought of plus an attitude towards the object plus the sense of a self to whom the attitude belongs – such a concrete bit of personal experience may be a small bit, but it is a solid bit as long as it lasts; not hollow, not a mere abstract element of experience, such as the ‘object’ is when taken all alone. It is a full fact, even though it be an insignificant fact; it is of the kind to which all realities whatsoever must belong. . .
—William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1901–02), 476.
#williamjames #fullfact

Snaprails Apr 11, 2025

#TOTP Pebbles later went on to design and produce a range of smart watches.

#fullfact , check before boosting etc. 🙂

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Tom Stafford Apr 2, 2025

NOW, going back in time to look at #FullFact's fact checks from March 2020...Days of high uncertainty.

https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus/

Reviewing this list, I don't see politically motivated bullying or woke censorship.

Get the facts on coronavirus – Full Fact

Fact checks about the coronavirus pandemic, including causes, Covid-19 symptoms, vaccines and side effects

Full Fact

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Mar 21, 2025

"12 Pledges are vague and ill defined"

A bit like this Government then.

#UKPOL #UKpolitics #Labour #FullFact

AngharadHafod Feb 21, 2025

"How much aid has the #US given to #Ukraine?" - #FullFact

"In recent days claims from US President Donald #Trump and his defence secretary Pete #Hegseth that the US has committed more than $300 billion in support to Ukraine have been widely reported in the media."

However, "the total international assistance committed to Ukraine by the US and European countries since 2022 is approximately €366 billion (about $383 billion)—about one-third of which has come from the US."
https://fullfact.org/news/us-assistance-ukraine/