Keeping up-to-date on the topics spreading through social media for tip-generation and fact-checking can quickly become unmanageable given the size and scale of the data. For closed-messaging platform...
Will Moy
Will Moy is Chief Executive of Full Fact, the UK’s independent fact checking charity which has pioneered automated fact checking. He has led Full Fact since work began in 2008. He gave the Royal Statistical Society’s Beveridge Lecture Other Truths Are Available in 2018, co-authored The State of Automated Factchecking with Mevan Babakar in 2016, and regularly appears in the media and at events to discuss Full Fact's work.
Will has served on advisory groups for the ESRC, Ofcom, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Treasury, and regularly gives evidence to select committee and other inquiries. He has advised the ONS on a communications review and he was a Marketing Academy Scholar in 2018. He volunteers as a trainer on the NCVO’s Certificate in Campaigning for charities. Before Full Fact, Will worked in the House of Lords for non-party affiliated peer Lord Low of Dalston and for the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Transport Safety. He previously worked briefly in tech.
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Fact-checking is growing around the world, with new sites starting in Italy, Germany, France, the U.K., Australia and South Africa. But as fact-checking grows, the websites are facing new challenges t...