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As embedded fact-checking grows, reporters need to show their sources
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As Trump and his supporters repeated false claims about the election, reporters at The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post and many other outlets used thousands of embedded fact checks in their news articles. To track this new phenomenon, we counted the use of words and phrases such as “baseless,” “falsely claimed” and “incorrectly said,” which are typically used when reporters embed a fact check, in stories in The Associated Press, The New York Times and in transcripts from CNN. The word “baseless” appeared 646 times in The Associated Press, 925 times in The New York Times and a whopping 1,004 times in transcripts from CNN.