diff --git a/server/pesacheck/ingest/ghost_feeding_service.py b/server/pesacheck/ingest/ghost_feeding_service.py
index 00c9051dc..2f2467fd6 100644
--- a/server/pesacheck/ingest/ghost_feeding_service.py
+++ b/server/pesacheck/ingest/ghost_feeding_service.py
@@ -2,10 +2,15 @@
 import logging
 from itertools import islice
 
+from celery.result import allow_join_result
+
+from superdesk import get_resource_service
 from superdesk.errors import ParserError
 from superdesk.io.feeding_services.file_service import FileFeedingService
 from superdesk.io.registry import register_feeding_service
+from superdesk.metadata.item import CONTENT_STATE, GUID_FIELD
 from superdesk.notification import push_notification
+from superdesk.resource_fields import ID_FIELD
 from superdesk.utils import get_sorted_files, FileSortAttributes
 
 
@@ -13,6 +18,12 @@
 
 BATCH_SIZE = 10
 
+# Desk the ingested fact-checks are fetched onto on their way to being
+# published. Publisher assigns the route from the article's language, not the
+# desk, so the desk is only a required waypoint in Superdesk's publish workflow;
+# override it with the provider config ``publish_desk``.
+DEFAULT_PUBLISH_DESK = "Newsdesk"
+
 
 class GhostFeedingService(FileFeedingService):
     """
@@ -87,16 +98,25 @@ async def _update(self, provider, update):
 
                 items_gen = parser.iter_items(file_path, provider)
 
+                file_guids = []
                 while True:
                     batch = list(islice(items_gen, BATCH_SIZE))
                     if not batch:
                         break
+                    file_guids.extend(
+                        item[GUID_FIELD] for item in batch if item.get(GUID_FIELD)
+                    )
                     yield batch
 
                 await self.move_file(
                     self.path, filename, provider=provider, success=True
                 )
 
+                # The consumer stores each batch before asking for the next, so
+                # once the file is moved every item above is in the ingest
+                # collection and can be fetched onto a desk and published.
+                await self._auto_publish(provider, file_guids)
+
             except Exception as ex:
                 if last_updated and self.is_old_content(last_updated):
                     await self.move_file(
@@ -108,5 +128,82 @@ async def _update(self, provider, update):
 
         push_notification("ingest:update")
 
+    async def _auto_publish(self, provider, guids):
+        """Fetch each freshly ingested item onto a desk and publish it.
+
+        Publishing is what carries an item through the http_push destination to
+        Superdesk Publisher, where the language rules drop it onto the matching
+        route — so with this in place ingest is hands-off end to end. Failures
+        are logged per item and never abort the ingest: a story that will not
+        validate simply stays unpublished for an editor to finish by hand.
+        """
+        if not guids:
+            return
+        if not provider.get("config", {}).get("auto_publish", True):
+            return
+
+        desk_id, stage_id = await self._resolve_publish_target(provider)
+        if desk_id is None:
+            logger.warning(
+                "Ghost auto-publish skipped: no desk to fetch onto "
+                "(set the provider config 'publish_desk')"
+            )
+            return
+
+        ingest_service = get_resource_service("ingest")
+        fetch_service = get_resource_service("fetch")
+        publish_service = get_resource_service("archive_publish")
+
+        for guid in guids:
+            try:
+                ingest_item = await ingest_service.find_one_async(req=None, guid=guid)
+                if not ingest_item:
+                    continue
+                # ``archived`` is stamped by the fetch service, so a set value
+                # means this item was already fetched — don't publish it twice.
+                if ingest_item.get("archived"):
+                    continue
+
+                fetch_doc = {
+                    ID_FIELD: ingest_item[ID_FIELD],
+                    "desk": str(desk_id),
+                    "state": CONTENT_STATE.ROUTED,
+                }
+                if stage_id:
+                    fetch_doc["stage"] = str(stage_id)
+
+                archive_id = (await fetch_service.fetch([fetch_doc]))[0]
+                # ``allow_join_result`` is required because we publish from
+                # inside the ``update_provider`` celery task. Publishing an item
+                # with an image cascades to publishing the picture association,
+                # which matches a ``polling=True`` publish channel; that path
+                # calls ``enqueue_published.apply_async()`` and then ``.get()``
+                # on the (eager) result. Celery forbids ``.get()`` inside a
+                # running task, but here the subtask runs eagerly in-process, so
+                # there is no remote worker to block on — this scopes the join
+                # guard off just for the publish. (Text-only items take a
+                # ``polling=False`` path and never hit ``.get()``, which is why
+                # image-free items published fine without this.)
+                with allow_join_result():
+                    await publish_service.patch_async(
+                        archive_id, {"auto_publish": True}
+                    )
+                logger.info("Ghost auto-publish: published %s", guid)
+            except Exception:
+                logger.exception("Ghost auto-publish failed for %s", guid)
+
+    async def _resolve_publish_target(self, provider):
+        """Return the ``(desk_id, stage_id)`` to fetch onto, or ``(None, None)``."""
+        desks_service = get_resource_service("desks")
+        desk_name = (
+            provider.get("config", {}).get("publish_desk") or DEFAULT_PUBLISH_DESK
+        )
+        desk = await desks_service.find_one_async(req=None, name=desk_name)
+        if not desk:
+            desk = await desks_service.find_one_async(req=None)
+        if not desk:
+            return None, None
+        return desk[ID_FIELD], desk.get("incoming_stage")
+
 
 register_feeding_service(GhostFeedingService)