Steve Nowottny
@stevenowottny.bsky.social
Journalist. Editor of Full Fact. Paid to say ‘Well, actually…’
Yep fair point… the lower stakes did at least make the ending less painfully awkward than some of the previous series
November 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Yep fair point… the lower stakes did at least make the ending less painfully awkward than some of the previous series
Controversial - I’d argue some roundtables could have used a bit less luvvieness and a bit more needle…
November 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Controversial - I’d argue some roundtables could have used a bit less luvvieness and a bit more needle…
Full details - including how we know the imagery was fake - in @sleighbayley.bsky.social's story here: fullfact.org/crime/grok-g... (/ends)
Grok and Google Lens AI overviews claim fake imagery shows Huntingdon train attack – Full Fact
Grok told users one AI-generated image “appears to be a genuine photo”, while a Google Lens AI overview linked a video which does not show real footage of the incident to Saturday’s stabbings.
fullfact.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Full details - including how we know the imagery was fake - in @sleighbayley.bsky.social's story here: fullfact.org/crime/grok-g... (/ends)
Google Lens’s AI overview also linked a video of a confrontation on a train carriage to Saturday’s attack, even though it is not real footage of the incident and was almost certainly generated with AI. (3/4)
November 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Google Lens’s AI overview also linked a video of a confrontation on a train carriage to Saturday’s attack, even though it is not real footage of the incident and was almost certainly generated with AI. (3/4)
Grok told users one AI-generated image of an injured man lying in a carriage was not AI-generated, and said it “appears to be a genuine photo”.
An AI overview from Google Lens claimed without evidence that the same image was a “still from a BBC news report”. (2/4)
An AI overview from Google Lens claimed without evidence that the same image was a “still from a BBC news report”. (2/4)
November 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Grok told users one AI-generated image of an injured man lying in a carriage was not AI-generated, and said it “appears to be a genuine photo”.
An AI overview from Google Lens claimed without evidence that the same image was a “still from a BBC news report”. (2/4)
An AI overview from Google Lens claimed without evidence that the same image was a “still from a BBC news report”. (2/4)
(More details on this trend here: fullfact.org/politics/fak...)
Revealed: how fake stories about government plans to curb personal freedoms have spread across social media – Full Fact
TikTok has banned 14 accounts after a Full Fact investigation found false claims about government restrictions have been shared across different social media platforms more than 300,000 times.
fullfact.org
October 27, 2025 at 7:27 AM
(More details on this trend here: fullfact.org/politics/fak...)
Yes that was a bit of a giveaway…
October 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Yes that was a bit of a giveaway…