ZigZag

S2 EP4: What IS Fact-Checking?


Listen Later

This week's episode is focused on a very specialized job in journalism: the Fact-Checker. Our guide is journalism's OG of information verification, Pulitzer Prize winner Bill 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.

GO DEEPER:
Post-truth politics and why the antidote isn't just fact-checking. Platforms driving users to misinformation. There's such a thing as fake fact-checkersFact-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 journalist fell for this fake video.

**Who You’ll Hear: **

Manoush Zomorodi (@manoush) Bill Adair @BillAdairDuke

ZigZag is the business show about being human.

Join 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.


**If you’re also interested in Jen and Manoush’s 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.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

ZigZagBy TED and Stable Genius Productions

  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6

4.6

1,496 ratings


More shows like ZigZag

View all
TED Talks Daily by TED

TED Talks Daily

11,418 Listeners

Design Matters with Debbie Millman by Design Matters Media

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

1,227 Listeners

TED Business by TED

TED Business

1,134 Listeners

TED Health by TED

TED Health

1,462 Listeners

TED Tech by TED Tech

TED Tech

411 Listeners

Sincerely, X by TED

Sincerely, X

1,418 Listeners

Worklife with Adam Grant by TED

Worklife with Adam Grant

9,241 Listeners

After Hours by TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee

After Hours

1,258 Listeners

TED en Español by TED

TED en Español

599 Listeners

TED Climate by TED

TED Climate

89 Listeners

How to Be a Better Human by TED

How to Be a Better Human

1,394 Listeners

Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter by TED

Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter

1,466 Listeners

Am I Normal? with Mona Chalabi by TED

Am I Normal? with Mona Chalabi

292 Listeners

Good Sport by TED

Good Sport

79 Listeners

Fixable by TED

Fixable

219 Listeners

The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks by TED

The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks

146 Listeners

TED中文 by TED

TED中文

13 Listeners

The TED AI Show by TED

The TED AI Show

43 Listeners

TED en Français by TED Audio Collective

TED en Français

3 Listeners