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Good read about the transfer portal There's been a lot of freaking out around here about football players transferring, and it's the first week of sports data class, so I decided for a first day class demo to break down the transfer portal. Strap in Husker fans, a thread. Matt Waite (@mattwaite) January 29, […]
The future of fact-checking is all about structured data
“Liars say the same things over and over, which makes the fact-check we wrote last week or last month valuable for an extended period.”
Okay, I didn’t do so well with my 2020 predictions. I was wrong that fact-checkers would win a Nobel Prize. And no, Brad Pitt and Charlize Theron didn’t star in a movie about fact-checking, nor did Taylor Swift make it the focus of a hit song that she performed at the Super Bowl.
But there
was a lot of fact-checking in 2020! Indeed, there was an avalanche of Pinocchios and Pants on Fire ratings, plus tremendous growth in embedded fact-checks, the practice when reporters assess claims right in their news stories with words such as “baseless” or “unfounded.” And during the presidential debates, a few outlets (including PolitiFact, the website I started) had promising results with experiments in live on-screen fact-checking.
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