The UK’s fact-checkers are sending their AI to help Americans cover elections

Inside a modest office near London Bridge, a small team of engineers and fact-checkers has spent a decade refining AI tools and models to do what most journalists can no longer manage: keep up. The system reads headlines, transcribes broadcasts and scans social media for claims worth verifying. It flags those most likely to mislead or cause harm.

The technology, developed by Full Fact, the United Kingdom’s leading fact-checking charity, is crossing the Atlantic. Ahead of the 2026 U.S. midterm elections, which many misinformation experts expect to be defined by AI-created falsehoods, Full Fact is offering its tools to American newsrooms to help track harmful misinformation at scale.