<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">James and Bill -<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ve mentioned your project to a friend who has been a long-time writer for Texas Monthly, the New York Times, and other publications. She is going to provide me with some contact information later this week. I’ll message you off-list with details.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Great idea for a project!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Julie</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 1, 2018, at 8:42 AM, James Cortada <<a href="mailto:jcortada@umn.edu" class="">jcortada@umn.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Bill Aspray and I are exploring how fact checking was done between the early 1950s and the mid-1990s using computers and networks, that is to say, before the wide use of the Internet, snopes, Wiki etc. If you are aware of specific examples, or documentation, about this use of computing, please let us know. We are interested in all manner of fact checking, not limiting it to press challenges of statements by politicians, hoaxes, and faulty scientific research. Thanks for your help.<br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">James W. Cortada</div><div class="">Senior Research Fellow</div>
<div class="">Charles Babbage Institute</div><div class="">University of Minnesota</div>
<div class=""><a href="mailto:jcortada@umn.edu" target="_blank" class="">jcortada@umn.edu</a></div>
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