Duke Reporters' Lab
Conducts research on fact-checking, including scientific claims, and maintains a database of global fact-checking sites.
DATABASE RESEARCH
The Duke Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalism research in the Sanford School of Public Policy, part of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy. Our core projects focus on fact-checking, and we also do occasional research about trust in the news media and other topics. The Reporters’ Lab led the development of the ClaimReview and MediaReview tagging systems through an open process that involved the global fact-checking community, Google, Bing and Jigsaw.
The Lab is funded by the Knight Chair endowment as well as grants from Knight Foundation, the Google News Initiative, the Facebook Journalism Project and Craig Newmark.
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.
Tech & Check, a collection of products and tools that use automation and other technologies to expand the reach of fact-checking and help fact-checkers do their work.
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.
Fact-checking app will cease updating at the end of 2024
By Erica Ryan – December 3, 2024
After six years of showcasing the work of U.S. fact-checkers, the FactStream app will cease updating as of December 31, 2024. The Duke Reporters’ Lab has decided to discontinue the iOS app because of a lack of resources to maintain it.
More than 56,000 people have downloaded the free app since its launch in 2018. FactStream aggregated the work of PolitiFact, FactCheck.org and The Washington Post to provide a one-stop source for fact-checking of U.S. political figures and social media posts.
Originally conceived as a platform for real-time fact-checking of live events like political debates, the app was transformed into a daily resource for users at the suggestion of Eugene Kiely of FactCheck.org. The app was built by Reporters’ Lab lead technologist Christopher Guess and the Durham, N.C., design firm Registered Creative.
The FactStream app was one of the many uses of ClaimReview, a tagging system created by the Reporters’ Lab in partnership with Google and the fact-checking community. FactStream users can continue to follow a feed of fact-checks from around the world using ClaimReview by checking out Google’s Fact Check Explorer.
We also encourage FactStream users to follow PolitiFact, FactCheck.org and The Washington Post’s Fact Checker using their own websites and social media feeds.