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Duke Reporters' Lab

Duke Reporters' Lab

The Duke Reporters' Lab is part of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.

History

In May 2016, the Duke Reporters' Lab announced the launch of Share the Facts, a tool developed in partnership with Jigsaw allowing users to easily share "fact-check" articles.[1]

In 2018, the Reporters' Lab launched the North Carolina Fact-Checking Project to provide "non-partisan fact-check articles for publications and broadcast programs statewide" during the 2018 state elections and 2019 state legislative session.[2]

Funding

The Duke Reporters' Lab has received funding from:[3]

  • Craig Newmark
  • Facebook Journalism Project
  • Google News Initiative
  • Knight Foundation

Partners

The Reporters' Lab has partnered or otherwise collaborated with:[3:1]

  1. Adair, B. (2016, May 12). New Share the Facts widget helps facts – rather than falsehoods – go viral. Reporters’ Lab. http://archive.today/2025.07.16-230855/https://reporterslab.org/2016/05/12/new-share-facts-widget-helps-facts-rather-falsehoods-go-viral/ ↩︎

  2. Duke University Reporters’ Lab: North Carolina Fact-Checking Project. Local News Lab. Retrieved August 13, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220813005648/https://localnewslab.org/about/north-carolina-local-news-lab/portfolio/north-carolina-fact-checking-project/ ↩︎

  3. About the Lab. Duke Reporters’ Lab. Retrieved January 24, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20240124211906/https://reporterslab.org/about-the-lab/ ↩︎ ↩︎