Dispatches

2025 in review: How we fact-checked a year of global crisis

From Israel's wars to a pope's death and anti-migrant riots in Europe, explore the top investigations from Eurovision News Spotlight’s inaugural year

Dec 29, 2025 • Maria Flannery

The Bondi Beach terror attack: Unpacking the viral lies and fact-checking the hero's misidentification

See the most viral lies after the Sydney terror attack, how the hero was misidentified as Edward Crabtree, and Grok's AI failure

Dec 16, 2025 • Maria Flannery

Visible from Space: How satellite images and AI-generated hoaxes defined coverage of the RSF’s Capture of el-Fasher

From Yale’s satellite analysis to viral AI hoaxes, we fact-check what’s real—and what’s fake—in the Sudan conflict and the battle for el-Fasher.

Nov 7, 2025 • Maria Flannery

Disinformation surges and Hamas targets rivals as attention turns to future of Gaza

With the fragile ceasefire holding, much remained unclear about who would govern Gaza and how the enclave might be rebuilt

Oct 17, 2025 • Maria Flannery

Fact-Check Dispatch: Climate in focus as Europe burns up, and Trump claims to end a war a montH

False claims sprung up amid the debate on air conditioning, the scorched earth in Spain, and directly from the White House

Aug 26, 2025 • Maria Flannery

Fact-Check Dispatch: The Gaza hunger crisis: A war of words and images

Issue 26 of the Fact-Check Dispatch

Aug 5, 2025 • Eurovision News Spotlight

Fact-Check Dispatch: Racist tropes and transphobia fanned by AI, fake magazine writers, and the case against Bob Vylan

Issue 25 of the Fact-Check Dispatch

Jul 8, 2025 • Maria Flannery

Fact-Check Dispatch: On the digital frontlines of the Iran-Israel war

Misrepresented and AI-generated content fuel information war online

Jun 24, 2025 • Eurovision News Spotlight and Maria Flannery

Fact-Check Dispatch: Old and AI-generated content circulates amid Middle East conflict and India plane crash

Issue 23 of the Fact-Check Dispatch

Jun 17, 2025 • Maria Flannery

Fact-Check Dispatch: Wrong man named in Liverpool parade incident, Gaza aid misinformation, and AI targets Pope Leo

Issue 22 of the Fact-Check Dispatch

Jun 3, 2025 • Maria Flannery

Fact-Check Dispatch: Trump's false white genocide claims, UN's '14,000 babies' confusion, and how Russians are buying luxury from the West

Issue 21 of the Fact-Check Dispatch

May 27, 2025 • Maria Flannery

Fact-Check Dispatch: Israeli government pays for Eurovision ads, Gaza aid depots under construction, and Trump's $400m jet

Issue 20 of the Fact-Check Dispatch

May 20, 2025 • Maria Flannery

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