Fact-checking and Democracy

Project Team

Fact-checking is a vital defense in response to falsehoods, hyperboles and half-truths targeting democracy, health, economy and national security. This project focused on building databases, systems and apps to leverage the power of data and computing among the public and to help make fact-checking more effective, scalable and sustainable.

Data and Technology for Fact-Checking

Poster by Bill Adair, Pankaj K. Agarwal, Jun Yang, Towqir Aziz, Xinghao Cheng, Mayuresh Kunjir, Junbo Li, Stavros Sintos, Yuhao Wen, Han (Hannah) Yan, Archana Ahlawat, Felicia Chen, David Cheng, Maya Choudhury, Fangge Deng, Joyce Er, Lucas Fagan, Sherry Feng, Frank Geng, Mary Gooneratne, Yuanhao Guan, Ethan Holland, Sherry Hu, JJ Jiang, Kamran Kara-Pabani, Grant Kim, Min Soo Kim, Drew Learner, Sanha Lim, Emily Liu, Stephanie Mei, Andres Montoya-Aristizabal, Matthew O'Boyle, Dora Pekec, Jackson Proudfout, Rahul Sengottuvelu, Ali Soyupak, Charles Todd, Caroline Wang, Jason Wang, Connie Wu, Harry Xie, Siyi Xu, David Yoon, Arthur Zhao, Daniel Zhou and Liuyi Zhu