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16 October 2025
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Google has ended its support for Full Fact. The company has been one of our biggest funders over the last three years, helping us build some of the best AI tools for fact checking in the world.
But things have now changed abruptly: 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.
Fact checkers have never seen a threat like this.
We think Google’s decisions, and those of other big US tech companies, are influenced by the perceived need to please the current US administration, feeding a harmful new narrative that attacks fact checking and all it stands for.
Full Fact will always be clear: verifiable facts matter and the big internet companies have responsibilities when it comes to curtailing the spread of harmful misinformation. If you agree, please support Full Fact today. We add to debate, we don't restrict it. We promote more speech, not less.
Full Fact is also a charity, and while we are not reliant on any one source of income, the loss of a funder Google’s size would be a concern for any organisation. Our fact checks are free to read but not to produce so over the past nine months we have been asking supporters to set up monthly Direct Debits.
Many have done so, and we now have a committed group of over two thousand core supporters giving in this way. Will you join them today and keep Full Fact impartial, independent and secure?
