Factchecking organisation wins prestigious British Academy award

Full Fact receives president’s medal 2022 for exposing and countering misinformation in news and political campaignsFar-sighted individuals – people such as Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale, primatologist Jane Goodall, historian David Olusoga and Gillian Tett, the financial journalist who warned of the 2008 global financial crash – are among those who have been publicly honoured in the past by the British Academy, the body that promotes excellence in the soc