This report is the result of a collaboration between independent fact checking organisations across five European countries: Agence France-Presse in France, CORRECTIV in Germany, Pagella Politica/Facta in Italy, Maldita.es in Spain and Full Fact in the UK.
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).
