An op-ed that grew out of my book.

Thank you Politics and Prose for hosting my book talk with Hallie Jackson last night! A packed house and a lively conversation!

My conversation about Beyond the Big Lie with Tim Miller, with a bonus reveal about the time he lied youtube.com/watch?v=_V0NFT…

My latest CQ @RollCall Equal Time podcast: Lying in politics is a danger to democracy. Can it be fixed? With guest Bill Adair rollcall.com/podcasts/equal…

Is your New Year's resolution to read more books? Enjoy! 📕duke.is/new-books Authors: Bill Adair Shelley Liu Frank Bruni Deondra Rose Gunther Peck

Timely new study from Princeton researchers finds fact-checkers don’t show party bias in selecting politicians to check. But they do focus on political leaders more than rank-and-file. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/adva…

The photos from the LA fires have been terrifying. Another way to see the scope is to look at My, which shows real-time reports of fire and rescue calls.

A smart take on Zuck by Alexios Vratskides, who fact-checks the Meta leader's claims about fact-checkers niemanlab.org/2025/01/zuck-c…

Great news from The Dispatch, a conservative outlet that was part of Meta's program: They're going to keep fact-checking even though Meta won't be paying. We need more conservative outlets doing this. thedispatch.com/article/fact-c…

A peek at how China uses unwitting US college students in its propaganda theassemblync.com/education/high…

In one concise paragraph, Wikipedia sums up opposition to water fluoridation.

I lied to a guy on national TV. So I decided to track him down and say I was sorry. This is the story of my search. cjr.org/analysis/polit…

Marvelous! Congrats!

As Richard Gingras retires from Google, he talked with me in this piece for Nieman Lab about AI and what he's doing next. niemanlab.org/2025/05/google…

A lot of people believed Meta's decision to end its support of fact-checkers would lead to a dramatic decline. But that hasn't happened, at least not yet, according to the latest census by the Duke Reporters' Lab. reporterslab.org/2025/06/19/fac…

Some thoughts on Google ending support for ClaimReview on search:

Three news alerts, three different takes