In which we learn about our new favorite person: Nancy Ford, Time's first fact-checker from 1923, who walked away after "several grueling months." 

Spoilers: fact-checking is still grueling. Annie knows because she was there in the trenches at a newspaper and then at a digital news company. 

This week, Kali and Annie dig into the history of fact-checking, the problem with opinion pieces, and what we learn from AO3's tag wranglers. 

Some sources from Kali's historical research: 

The Rise and Fall of Facts (Columbia Journalism Review): https://www.cjr.org/special_report/rise-and-fall-of-fact-checking.php

Here’s How the First Fact-Checkers Were Able to Do Their Jobs Before the Internet (Time): https://time.com/4858683/fact-checking-history/

To Fix Fake News, Look To Yellow Journalism (JSTOR): https://daily.jstor.org/to-fix-fake-news-look-to-yellow-journalism/

Plus, take a look at what we're reading on our Bookshop page: https://bookshop.org/shop/theinksink