For the last three years, I’ve done most of the fact-checking on my "own" time, weekends and nights, while trying to do my actual correspondent job during the day. Now the truth file will be my full-time focus.
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I started fact-checking Trump in September 2016 because I was frustrated that much of the campaign coverage didn’t seem very interested in talking about what was true and not true. This is a great opportunity to get more facts to a U.S. audience this time around.
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It’s hard to leave my hometown paper after 11 years. The Star is such an important institution, doing investigative and accountability work nobody else does.
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Finally, a huge thank-you to editor
@EdTubb. He's been the hidden maestro behind this whole initiative -- fact-checking my fact-checks, coming up with informative graphics and statistics, doing the back-end work on the database, a bunch of other stuff. Everyone applaud Ed!Show this thread -
I am! We’re doing a giant final update on http://thestar.com today...I fell six weeks behind and it was bad...and then I’ll keep counting at CNN.https://twitter.com/svdate/status/1136262592777871360?s=21 …
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Congrats! You’ve earned it with first class fact checking.
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Thank you so much, Nick!
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Welcome to the team Daniel!
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