FULL FACT.org (independent fact checkers & campaigners) • Friday Rewind
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Will & Phoebe of FULL FACT.ORG, originally episode 13 from 2015-01-07.
As Pip mentions on the intro, it is quite a weird episode. This is of course not down the awesome guests representing FullFact, but more down to how drastically the media and basic human landscape has changed since the episode was broadcast 11 years ago. We've seen how much can change in a week - so with our perspective over a decade later, it's like stepping back into a very bizarre alternative timeline. What's weird is that the phrase "fake news" was a mere glint in some shady folks eyes, and also that this chat happened 5 years before a pandemic, which was where misinformation truly had its time in the sun. Let alone artificial intelligence. This is some novel-worthy stuff right here. Anyway - without getting too caught up in all of the chaos, FullFact is a VERY important organisation who specialise in neutralising dis/mis-information and set out to fully fact check what gets out there, so listen knowing that you can and should check in on their site regularly. It's not a grift, it's not a hoax, it's an honest place where bullshit goes to die. They can use that if they want (it's good right?). ENJOY!
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| 0:00.0 | Emmo clue, emmo clue, immoclute, it's time for another rewind. |
| 0:04.9 | And this one feels really, really prevalent. |
| 0:09.0 | It's going to feel like a real time capsule. |
| 0:11.2 | This is a chat I had 12 years ago in 2014 with two of the organisers of full fact.org. |
| 0:26.0 | And full fact.org were like a revolutionary thing at the time because they would fact check TV shows, social media posts and like live tweet them. |
| 0:34.5 | It was right. It was before the term fake news had been invented, I think, |
| 0:39.9 | and it was right at the start of, I mean, yeah, I don't know, a lot has happened since. This |
| 0:46.7 | is probably going to be a strange listen for all of us, but it felt like a good time to release |
| 0:53.1 | it, you know, with all that's going on in the world. |
| 0:56.2 | So yeah, this was a chat with Will and Phoebe from forefact.org about the importance of |
| 1:04.5 | particularly politicians being held accountable for inaccurate spreading of information. |
| 1:10.5 | Again, time-captial moment right here, |
| 1:13.4 | because a lot has happened since then. |
| 1:16.7 | So yeah, strap yourself in. |
| 1:19.0 | This was only the 13th episode of the Distraction Pieces podcast, |
| 1:22.6 | way back in 2014. |
| 1:26.0 | This is Will and Phoebe from full fact.org. |
| 1:29.8 | This base of fiction is the intro to the structure. |
| 1:32.4 | This base of fiction is the intro to the structure. |
| 1:36.3 | This base of fiction is the insult to the distraction. |
| 1:39.6 | This base of fiction is the intro to the station. |
| 1:50.5 | Hello, hello, hello, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. |
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