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Fact-checking sites continue to grow in number around the world

A Ukrainian factchecking site is trying to spot fake photos in social media — and building audience

Barely 90 days after launch, StopFake is reaching 1.5 million unique visitors a month and bringing social media verification to a conflict being fought both on land and online. Lydia Tomkiw

Joseph LichtermanMarch 18, 2014

The nonprofit Africa Check wants to build more fact-checking into the continent’s journalism

The site, backed by the Agence France-Presse Foundation, is starting in South Africa but hopes to spread elsewhere.

The fact-checking wars move south

John WihbeyJune 26, 2013

What’s New in Digital Scholarship: A generation gap in online news, and does The Daily Show discourage tolerance?

The rise and fall of a narcotweeter, how to build an online community, and when fact-checking backfires: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.

PolitiFact editor Bill Adair in the "Star Chamber"

Caroline O'DonovanApril 9, 2013

Tuesday Q&A: Bill Adair on leaving PolitiFact for academia and the Simon & Garfunkel theory of presidential coverage

The PolitiFact founder, headed to a professorship at Duke, reflects on the fact-checking boom and talks about preparing the next generation of journalists.

Politifact wants you to “Settle It!” with a new mobile app

Andrew PhelpsAugust 21, 2012

Inside the Star Chamber: How PolitiFact tries to find truth in a world of make-believe

As Bill Adair’s fact-checking enterprise turns five, PolitiFact is responding to criticism and adding a little structure to how it decides what’s True, Pants on Fire, or somewhere in between.

Andrew PhelpsJuly 12, 2012

Are you sure that’s true? Truth Goggles tackles fishy claims at the moment of consumption

Dan Schultz’s BS-detection software really works, but there are a lot of technology issues — and people issues — getting in the way of a mainstream product.

Mark CoddingtonFebruary 17, 2012

This Week in Review: Closing in on News Corp.’s Sun, and a privacy crisis for mobile apps

Plus: Where tech journalism is headed, the AP’s newest copyright battle, news sites’ advertising struggles, and the rest of this week’s media/tech news.

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