Charlotte Green

News & Online Journalist

Charlotte joined Full Fact in November 2023 as a news & online journalist from her role as a Local Democracy Reporter at the Manchester Evening News. She was previously a senior news reporter with the Manchester Evening News, Rossendale Free Press and Accrington Observer titles.

24 March 2025

Angela Rayner did not gift portrait of herself to Vietnamese politician

Misleading claims that the Labour MP presented Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister with a painting of herself have been shared online.

12 March 2025

Hoax posts still rife on Facebook 18 months on from Full Fact’s investigation

Our fact checking of claims on Facebook in February identified almost 50 communities across the UK which have been victims of bogus appeals or warnings.

brett-jordan-eefrxcpixna-unsplash-fotor-20250312105421.png

7 March 2025

Downing Street video doesn’t show Volodymyr Zelenskyy using expletive to refer to Donald Trump

A clip being widely shared online, which appears to be a news report covering a moment where the Ukrainian president swore when asked about President Donald Trump, is fake.

7 March 2025

Barack Obama hasn’t been receiving Obamacare royalties

Posts which also claim that the new Department of Government Efficiency has halted the payments to the former US president have been circulating online. But these claims are satirical.

7 March 2025

Video appearing to show BBC reporter caught on hot mic after Zelenskyy-Trump meeting has been edited

The clip appears to show the BBC’s Ukraine correspondent joking about the meeting while his mic was still switched on—but the audio has been faked.

6 March 2025

Macron didn’t call Putin a ‘butcher’ in news conference with Trump

During a press conference with US president Donald Trump, French president Emmanuel Macron referenced killings in the town of Bucha in Ukraine, rather than saying “butcher”.