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Out next week: Soft Targets
Earlier this year, an email landed in Factual’s inbox: a journalist was producing a nonfiction graphic novel about the history of gun use in the US. Would we be able to help fact-check it? I was immediately intrigued by this ask, as I love...
You Can See Everything would not have passed fact check
On the evening of the sixteenth, the day Nathan Fielder’s new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes was released, my Instagram feed started peer pressuring me into seeing it.
It worked. When I woke up hung over on Saturday morning, I fumbled...
Fact-checking is a peer-review for accuracy
I recently joined Mark Armstrong on the Nieman Storyboard podcast to talk about my work as a journalist and founder of Factual, and why fact-checking is as important as ever.
One of my favorite ways to describe fact-checking is as peer re...
Back to school sale on Factual webinars and resources!
September’s always had that back-to-school energy: fresh starts, the desire to learn new skills, and the sudden urge to get your s*** together.
In that spirit, I’m putting all of Factual’s webinars and resources on sale this month. Use FCS...
The traditional ways of thinking about fact-checking aren’t enough anymore
Throughout the last year, I’ve watched newsroom budgets shrink for fact-checking and multiple outlets who usually use fact-checkers get duped.
Last fall, Tech Review—on outlet I’ve written for and gotten fact-checked at— retracted a story...
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