Claim: "Significant" portions of Anne Frank's diary were found to be written in fine ballpoint pen, and none of it matched her handwriting.
Fact-check: Diary of Anne Frank not written by American novelist after WW2 - Full Fact
Verdict: this isn't right. a comprehensive scientific study in the 1980s in the netherlands found that the diary was written in fountain pen ink and pencil by anne frank. ballpoint notes were added by a graphologist in an examination of the diary after the second world war.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Charlotte Green
Date published: 2024-03-07T00:00:00