Bill Adair

Bill Adair is an award-winning journalist and educator. He is the creator of PolitiFact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking site, and co-founder of the International Fact-Checking Network. He worked 24 years for the Tampa Bay Times in Florida, where he covered aviation, Congress, the White House and the Supreme Court. He is the author of two books, Beyond the Big Lie, an examination of lying in politics, and The Mystery of Flight 427, an inside account of a crash investigation. He is writing a book about Wikipedia. He is a professor of journalism and public policy at Duke University and a leader in the effort to combat misinformation.