Squash began as a crazy dream. Soon after I started PolitiFact in 2007, readers began suggesting a cool but far-fetched idea. They wanted to see…
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We initially wanted to build pop-up fact-checking for a TV screen. But for nearly a year, people have told us in surveys and in coffee…
Comments closedSquash report card: Improvements during State of the Union … and how humans will make our AI smarter
Squash report card: Improvements during State of the Union … and how humans will make our AI smarter
Squash, the experimental pop-up fact-checking product of the Reporters’ Lab, is getting better. Our live test during the State of the Union address on Feb.…
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Fact-checkers have a problem. They want to use technology to hold politicians accountable by getting fact-checks in front of the public as quickly as possible.…
Comments closedIt’s been more than a year since the Reporters’ Lab received $1.2 million in grant funding to launch the Duke Tech & Check Cooperative. Our…
Comments closedThree Duke computer science majors advanced the quest for what some computer scientists say is the Holy Grail in fact-checking this summer. Caroline Wang, Ethan…
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FactStream, our iPhone/iPad app, has a new feature that displays the latest fact-checks from FactCheck.org, PolitiFact and The Washington Post. FactStream was conceived as an…
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My opening remarks at Global Fact V, the fifth annual meeting of the world’s fact-checkers, organized by the International Fact-Checking Network, held June 20-22 in…
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Students in the Duke Reporters’ Lab have built a bot that is like an intern who watches TV around the clock. Asa Royal, a junior…
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About 40 fact-checkers, journalists, computer scientists and academics gathered at Duke University March 29-30 for the Tech & Check Conference, a meeting hosted by the…
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