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Bill Adair

@BillAdairDuke

Knight Professor of Journalism & Public Policy at Duke, creator of PolitiFact, co-founder of Intl. Fact Checking Network. Writing a book on lying in politics.

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'Fact-checking is failing. The old way of publishing fact-checks — putting them on websites and promoting them through social media — isn’t getting them to the people who need them. It’s time to reimagine how fact-checkers publish & broadcast their work.'
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A UNC student OD'd on Duke campus, and it took a student journalist to bring the story to light wral.com/story/a-unc-st…

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Ken was supposed to be anatomically correct … and other interesting revelations from the Harvard-stored papers of Barbie inventor Ruth Handler, uncovered by The Boston Globe intern (and Duke student) Nicole Kagan bostonglobe.com/2023/07/18/art…

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On the front page of today’s Chicago Tribune: a powerful story on the anniversary of Highland Park by Duke student Jenna Smith and Duke alum Jake Sheridan

On the front page of today’s Chicago Tribune: a powerful story on the anniversary of Highland Park by Duke student Jenna Smith and Duke alum @JakeSheridan_
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The water bottles sold at airports are round or square, the same ones sold at grocery stores. Why aren’t they flat, like a flask, so they will fit in the seat back of an airplane seat?

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At GlobalFact, an interesting session about to start on ClaimReview and MediaReview. It’s in Room E7 on 3rd floor, which is a little difficult to find. Here are the directions.

At GlobalFact, an interesting session about to start on ClaimReview and MediaReview. It’s in Room E7 on 3rd floor, which is a little difficult to find. Here are the directions.
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For reference, here’s our photo from the first GlobalFact in London in 2014. (Small enough that Will Moy bought everyone beer)

For reference, here’s our photo from the first GlobalFact in London in 2014. (Small enough that @puzzlesthewill bought everyone beer)
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In opening remarks at , new International Fact-Checking Network Director Angie Drobnic Holan gives powerful personal story of her father, the importance of truth and how fact-checking is under fire around the world. “Now is the time for fact-checkers to bond together.”

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This is marvelous news. Angie Drobnic Holan is not only the smartest fact-checker I’ve ever worked with (she read all 1,000 pages of the Obamacare bill), she’s a warm and savvy leader who will do great things at International Fact-Checking Network poynter.org/fact-checking/…

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Duke students bring journalism to the nation, “How much are these bongos worth?” edition: @Nicolekagan_ in the Boston Globe goes behind the scenes with Antiques Roadshow bostonglobe.com/2023/06/14/art…

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Duke students bring journalism to the nation, AI edition: Sofia Bliss-Carrascosa co-bylines a PolitiFact explainer on generative AI: politifact.com/article/2023/j…

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