Andy Dudfield

MCP for gov data, when?

modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/learn/a...

Breaking new ground, always

The absolute dream. A god-tier sticker

an image of an open laptop. It features a number of stickers on the lid with civic tech and GDS style slogans on them including 'open by design' and 'boring magic'. It also features a clear sticker of the waybackmachine logo, something that says 'fact matter', 'i'm a hopeful technologist' and my personal fave one that states 'you can't programme vibes'

If your sticker is in this image, congratulations. Your work was *checks notes* featured on TV in Singapore over the weekend.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=svGz... (about 6mins in)

The Gorton and Denton by-election: fact checked – Full Fact As voters in the Greater Manchester constituency prepare to head to the polls, here’s a round-up of claims we’ve fact checked from the campaign.

Our Full Fact wrap on the by-election landscape. I think it is safe to say, room to improve for everyone involved.

MCP for gov data, when?

modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/learn/a...

potentially this link takes you to the advert

www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

So let's take it back to the old skool sheets
Original beats with real live CSVs

No way can that be ten years. I was only working there like 5mins ago. Right?

(It really has stood the tests of time)

Archiving the content we check: How we are working with others to support the infrastructure for international fact checking. – Full Fact Full Fact is the UK’s independent fact checking charity

I have written a post about the magic of collaboration amongst fact checkers and why Fundación Maldita.es and @fullfact.org are stepping up and making sure vital bits of our data infrastructure can keep running

Strongly relating to this right now. It just feels so oppressive. I am sure I have recency bias in some ways, but this really does feel like as bad as it has ever been in my 20 years here.

Very excited to see this out in the world (I made the smallest of small contributions to it, but it is exactly the kind of work we should be thinking about when it comes to trust and AI)

A really interesting chat between @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @cward1e.bsky.social.

This broad narrative of debunking and fact checking not being effective that sometimes creeps through is frustrating and I am thankful to Claire for talking about @fullfact.org and how our work is always evolving

It feels like it has been a moment since we have had a 'figures as percentages that are actually percentage point changes' and to do so with a bar chart? Very old skool.

'Our list of addresses of houses is our IP because *reasons* so you better have not copied it when making your other list of addresses you needed to to collect to do your job'

It is just ridiculous

Owen is a hero.

A graph showing a count on the Y axis and months on the X axis. It is showing the distribution of AI generated misinformation. It remains fairly flat from 2023 to the start of 2025 and since then has been climbing rapidly each month since. The legend of the graph clarifies that AI generated content now represents the topic of 16% of fact checks written in Europe.

This line is going to keep on going up and to the right and we should all be pretty worried for that means for how we build trust in anything published online

edmo.eu/publications...

Host locations confirmed for 2027 Tour de France & Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift Grand Départs The start and finish locations for the 2027 Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift have been unveiled, marking the next major milestone on the road to the historic Grand Départs, which wi...

The tour de france is coming to Wales. It is coming to *Cardiff*

Hold me.

I'm so sorry Alex. This is truly terrible news

An image of a tote bag, with "25 years of carrying the internet" written on it above the wikipedia logo.

Happy 25th birthday Wikipedia, you beautiful thing.

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Interesting 2026 Short talks about interesting things.

Little act of joy in a pretty dark January. I have booked a ticket to Interesting

Would love to see some fact checkers featuring here.

It is me! Andy Dudfield from @fullfact.org , talking about AI. Register to hear what I and others have to say about this.

If you are heading out to my chic side of town then I think Hiraeth, Milkwood, Thomas and Purple Poppadom are all grand

In town, The Potted Pig is good

Just the other side. Vegetarian Food Studio is criminally under rated /Matsudai is as highly rated as it should be.

We scored a goal

(Humbling, but incredibly fun afternoon out)

I'm too out on the loop on gov stuff to know anything about the vibes, but Head of Product for data.gov.uk should be an absolutely fantastic job.

Open the data, save the world (and AI) stuff

www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

To avoid the appearance of click bait …I think they are THREATS but would be very pleased to be proven wrong. Happy to hear countervailing arguments

As flagged by @fullfact.org, there's an ENTIRELY AI-GENERATED video of a fake UK politician in the House of Commons doing the rounds on TikTok

It has more than 5 million views

While the original video is flagged as AI, it has been reposted by many other accounts (where it is not labelled as AI)

I'm part of the news cycle now?

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Exeter City Supporters’ Trust calls for solidarity with fan-owned clubs ahead of FA Cup tie Exeter City are proud to be one of a small number of English professional clubs owned by theirsupporters. Since saving the club from near-liquidation in 2003, Exeter City Supporters’ Trust has held a ...

I can't image you have much space for FA cup previews, but some publicity for this call from the Exeter City fans trust to Man City would be great

Supporting a fan own club is hard (I pay them money every month in return for not much) and these kind of asks make me cringe, but we really need it