The Duke Reporters’ Lab hosted its annual Tech & Check conference on March 28-29. More than 50 technologists, fact-checkers, computer scientists and Duke students gathered at the Bullpen in downtown Durham to discuss progress in automated fact-checking. Participants did demos of their projects and discussed plans for the future.
Some highlights from the conference:
- Dan Schultz – Truth Goggles and Talking Point Tracker
- Arjun Moorthy – CivikOwl
- Nadine Ajaka – Washington Post video taxonomy
- Mevan Babakar – Full Fact
- Caio Almeida – Meedan and WhatsApp
- Bill Adair – Squash
- Delip Rao – Detecting synthetic content
- Zoher Kachwala – FactCheckGraph
- Pablo Fernández – Chequeabot
- Chengkai Li – ClaimBuster
Photos by Colin Huth