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    Articles tagged Bill Adair (18)

    Fact-checking needs a reboot
    “‘Informing democracy’ is not enough in an age of rampant lies about elections and public health and climate. Fact-checkers need to be more assertive in getting truthful information to the audience that needs it.” Bill Adair
    Bill Adair and Mark StencelJuly 29, 2020
    A lesson in automated journalism: Bring back the humans
    “We’ve found that artificial Intelligence is smart, but it’s not yet smart enough to make final decisions or avoid the robotic repetition that is an unfortunate trait of, um, robots.”
    Here’s a roundup of the latest and greatest research on local news’ impact and future
    Bill AdairNovember 27, 2018
    The red couch experiments: Early lessons in pop-up fact-checking
    “People have long mused about live fact-checking on television, but this marked the first in-depth study. It revealed our product could have tremendous appeal — but we need to explain it better to our users.”
    Christine SchmidtApril 18, 2018
    Truth Goggles are back! And ready for the next era of fact-checking
    “Why can’t we use the Cambridge Analytica [method] for good, to help people actually know good things?”
    FactStream debuted live fact-checking with last night’s SOTU. How’d it go?
    Christine SchmidtJanuary 3, 2018
    Automated, live fact-checks during the State of the Union? The Tech & Check Cooperative’s first beta test hopes to pull it off
    Is automated fact-checking the “holy grail” for this corner of journalism?
    If fact-checking’s going to stay relevant, it’s going to have to move past, uh, checking facts
    Bill AdairJune 6, 2016
    What happens when a 50-something journalist gets a week’s worth of news from Snapchat Discover?
    The founder of PolitiFact finds distracting soundtracks and stale headlines, but also a fair amount of lively and effective content.
    Tatiana Walk-MorrisApril 15, 2016
    From Nieman Reports: The future of political fact-checking
    “The key to the future of fact-checking is getting the fact-checks virtually instant and making it so the fact-check is presented on the medium that the claim is made on.”
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