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ZFC on Medium (2016): ‘Fact Check This, Bill Adair’

Bryan W. White October 26, 2023 0 Comments

Back in 2016 I used the Medium platform to skewer Bill Adair’s errant view of fact-checking. Bill Adair is the founder of PolitiFact and after PolitiFact was elevated to journalistic sainthood with a position at Duke University. My article, titled “Fact Check This, Bill Adair,” pointed out that bias is irrelevant to fact-checking if the fact check gets the facts…
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Email outreach to the European Fact-Checking Standards Network, Oct. 16-20, 2023

Bryan W. White October 23, 2023 0 Comments

With the IFCN seemingly uninterested in malfeasance by Logically Facts, Zebra Fact Check started looking at whether a European accountability organization might help fill the void. Email to the EFCSN: Update June 14, 2024: Deleted embedded .pdf image in favor of a URL to same with the main text quoted in the post.

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ZFC on Medium (2016): ‘Fact Check This, Bill Adair’

Email outreach to the European Fact-Checking Standards Network, Oct. 16-20, 2023