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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It’s now much easier for fact-checkers to use ClaimReview, a tagging tool that logs fact-checks published around the world into one database. The tool helps…
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Duke Reporters’ Lab students expanded vital political journalism during a historic midterm campaign season this fall with the North Carolina Fact-Checking Project. Five student journalists…
Comments closedFive Duke undergraduates monitored thousands of political claims this semester during a heated midterm campaign season for the N.C. Fact-Checking Project. That work helped expand…
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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Last week, journalists and technologists gathered at Duke to dream up new ways that automation could help fact-checking. The first Tech & Check conference, sponsored…
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The Reporters’ Lab and Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network will host “Tech & Check”, the first conference to explore the promise and challenges of automated fact-checking.…
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Two projects from the Duke Reporters’ Lab were featured at the 2015 Computation + Journalism Symposium, which was held over the weekend at Columbia University…
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