S2 EP4: What IS Fact-Checking?
This week's episode is focused on a very specialized job in journalism: the Fact-Checker. Our guide is journalism's\xa0OG\xa0of information verification, Pulitzer Prize winner\xa0Bill Adair. He explains the origins, methodology, and challenges of fact-checking in a "post-truth" world. Plus, how journalists are partnering with technologists to build tools that they hope can make the very word "fact" less politically charged.
\n\nGO DEEPER:
\nPost-truth politics and why the antidote isn't just fact-checking. Platforms driving users\xa0to misinformation.\xa0There's such a thing as fake fact-checkers.\xa0Fact-checkers going OT in Brazil. Google is working on a fact-checking search engine. Fact-checking is on Broadway. How Facebook is downplaying false headlines. Why this\xa0journalist fell for this fake video.
**Who You\u2019ll Hear: **
\n\nManoush Zomorodi (@manoush) Bill Adair @BillAdairDuke
\n\nZigZag is the business show about being human.
\n\nJoin a community of listeners riding the twists and turns of late-capitalism, searching for a kinder, more sustainable way. Manoush Zomorodi and Jen Poyant investigate how work and business impact our wellbeing and the planet we live on. On Seasons 4 and 5, hear from rebels and visionaries with radical ideas on how we can build stable lives, careers, and companies.
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\n**If you\u2019re also interested in Jen and Manoush\u2019s personal story and their adventures in starting their own business with a little help from blockchain technology, listen to the first three seasons, starting with Season 1, Chapter 1.