One of the main hindrances to the success of automated fact-checking is the need for more fact checks and fact-checkers, Duke Reporters’ Lab director Bill Adair said at Wednesday’s IFCN Talk. He showed how Squash takes claims from fact-checking partners submitted to ClaimReview — a fact check tagging system developed by the lab — and uses a matching algorithm to connect those fact checks to live speech. While it’s relatively easy for fact-checkers to add their work to ClaimReview, Guess said the variety of topics being fact-checked is just as important as the total number of individual fact-checks.