This report is the result of a collaboration between independent fact checking organisations across five European countries: Pagella Politica and Facta in Italy, Maldita.es in Spain, Full Fact in the UK, Correctiv in Germany and Agence France-Presse in France.
It looks at articles published by those five fact checkers over the months of March and April, as the Covid-19 pandemic spread across Europe and large-scale public health measures were imposed. In total 645 articles relating to Covid-19 (and the social and political issues around the outbreak) were published by the five organisations.
This total also includes more general articles that do not have a specific fact check or debunking element (for example, explanatory articles about the science behind the virus, or about the various rules of lockdown in each country).
