Researchers and journalists covering the battle against misinformation have a powerful new tool in their arsenal — a groundbreaking collection of fact-checking data that covers tens of thousand...
Fifteen years ago, I worked with a small group of reporters and editors at the St. Petersburg Times (now the Tampa Bay Times) to start something bold: a fact-checking website that called out poli...
https://reporterslab.org/politifact-at-15-lessons-about-the-truth-o-meter-innovation-and-pirates/
My opening remarks for Global Fact 8 on Oct. 20, 2021, delivered for the second consecutive year from Oslo, Norway. Thanks, Baybars! Welcome to Norway! (Pants on Fire!) It’s great to be her...
https://reporterslab.org/keeping-a-sense-of-community-in-the-ifcn/
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 our fact checks pop up on live TV. That kind of au...
https://reporterslab.org/the-lessons-of-squash-our-groundbreaking-automated-fact-checking-platform/
My opening remarks for Global Fact 7, delivered from Oslo, Norway*, on June 22, 2020. I’m going to do something a little different this year. I’m going to fact-check my own opening remarks us...
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 shops that they like live fact-checking but they need more i...
https://reporterslab.org/pop-up-fact-checking-moves-online-lessons-from-our-user-experience-esting/
Last fall, we launched an ambitious effort to develop a new tagging system for fact-checks of fake videos and images. The idea was to take the same approach that fact-checkers use when they check...
https://reporterslab.org/we-want-your-feedback-on-the-mediareview-tagging-system/
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. 4 showed significant improvement over...
My opening remarks from Global Fact 6, Cape Town, South Africa, on June 19, 2019. It’s wonderful to be here and see so many familiar faces. It’s particularly cool to see our new team from the...
We tested two fact-checking products during the State of the Union address. One failed, the other showed great promise. The failure was FactStream, our iPhone app. It worked fine for the first 10...
https://reporterslab.org/during-state-of-the-union-a-failure-and-a-glimpse-of-squash/