For Fact's Sake The Ferret

There's only a week to go until the election, and things are hotting up!
On this Election Cast, Ali and Paul delve into:
The Scottish Labour manifestoNigel Farage's promise to leave the World Economic Forum (spoiler: we aren't a member).Why Keir Starmer and Jimmy Savile are being linked online
Thanks everyone for listening!
Credits:
Written and presented by Ali Brian and Paul Dobson
Produced by Halina Rifai

For this week's election cast, Ali and Paul are looking into the claims which are impacting the campaign over the last seven days.
Did the Scottish Government underspend its EU funding? Are there more people arriving in the UK than ever?How are Scottish chickens being caught up in the culture war?
The answers to these questions lie within.
Credits:
Written and presented by Ali Brian and Paul Dobson
Produced by Halina Rifai

The For Fact's Sake Election Cast is here! It's our special weekly election podcast, looking at the misinformation, conspiracies and culture war flashpoints that are impacting the campaign.
For the first episode, Ali and Paul are looking at why the SNP were accused of misinformation for a claim about North Sea jobs.
We also tackle the conspiracy theories that have been connected to protests against low emissions zones (LEZ) in Scotland, and delve into the controversy aroound Rishi Sunak's claim that every working family would be £2,000 worse off under Labour's plans.
Credits:
Written and presented by Ali Brian and Paul Dobson
Produced by Halina Rifai

The election is upon us, and the For Fact's Sake podcast is back!
Starting tomorrow, Ali and Paul will be hosting a weekly show until the election comes, covering fact checks, investigations and everything The Ferret is doing over the election period.
We’ll be explaining the conspiracies and culture war wedge issues that are impacting the political conversation, and revealing who is using their money and influence to sway voters in Scotland and the UK.

It's the final episode of our three-part For Fact's Sake series on elections.
This week, we are looking at the biggest vote taking place in this election year: India.
Ali and Paul spoke to Jency Jacob, the managing editor of BOOM, a fact checking organisation based in India and also covering Myanmar and Bangladesh.
He explained the difficulties of fact-checking in an election that covers a billion potential voters, and the types of misinformation that voters in India encounter.
We also have the second of our Conspiracy Dictionary segment, where Ali and Paul discuss chemtrails.

It's part two of our mini series on the election year.
In this episode we spoke to Tori Marland, from Logically Facts, about the potential trends in disinformation that we will likely see in the election campaign in the UK.
And in our new 'Truth Tracker' segment, we discuss what is really known about Kate Middleton amid the controversy around her health and whereabouts.