The Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalism research in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Our core projects focus on fact-checking, but we also do occasional research about trust in the news media and other topics. Our projects include:

A guide to the world’s fact-checkers. We maintain a database of fact-checking sites and publish an annual census.

The Duke Tech & Check Cooperative, a two-year research project to automate fact-checking, funded by Knight Foundation, Facebook and Craig Newmark.

Analysis about trends and advances in fact-checking, including articles written by our students, staff and faculty.

The Reporters’ Lab is part of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy at the Sanford School.

Tech & Check Cooperative

Squash report card: Improvements during State of the Union … and how humans will make our AI smarter

We've had some encouraging improvements in the AI powering our experimental fact-checking technology. But to make Squash smarter, we're calling in a human.

By Bill Adair – February 23, 2020

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Reporters’ Lab developing MediaReview, a new tool to combat fake videos and images

Standardizing how fact-checkers tag false videos and images should help search engines and social media companies identify misinformation more quickly.

By Catherine Clabby – January 27, 2020

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