'Bad Information Ruins Lives'

On 11 March 2020 IMCC welcomed Andy Dudfield from 'Full Fact'.

Andy is Full Fact's Head of Product where he leads the automated fact checking team and is focused on ensuring automated fact checking technology is developing in line with the needs of fact checkers around the world. Andy was previously the Chief Publishing Officer of the Office for National Statistics and prior to that spent a decade working in product and technology roles at the BBC. His talk gave an overview of the role technology, especially AI, may have in identifying and combating misinformation.