Straight to the Facts: In Conversation with Will Moy

In partnership with the University of Sheffield

In the wake of a spate of high profile fake news stories and disinformation, calls for fact checking have reached new heights, but can fact checking really save public debate? Is it able to meet public demands? Or is political speech so polarised that it is no longer possible to establish commonly held facts? At this event, Will Moy, the Chief Executive of Full Fact, shares his insight from over a decade working at the forefront of the fact checking debate. Responding to new findings from a team of University of Sheffield academics, this event asks whether public debate is condemned to be inherently unhealthy, or whether fact checking can restore democratic debate.