Stories by Brooke Borel

Brooke Borel is a journalist and author of The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking. She recently competed against an AI fact-checker and won by a worrying margin. Credit: Nick Higgins

Policy

How Professional Truth Seekers Search for Answers

Nine experts describe how they sort signal from noise

September 11, 2019 — Brooke Borel

Computing

Clicks, Lies and Videotape

Artificial intelligence is making it possible for anyone to manipulate audio and video. The biggest threat is that we stop trusting anything at all

October 1, 2018 — Brooke Borel

Agriculture

Weeds Are Winning the War against Herbicide Resistance

Herbicides are under evolutionary threat. Can modern agriculture find a new way to fight back?

June 18, 2018 — Brooke Borel

Culture

When GMOs Are the Movie Star

Can documentaries on controversial science be entertaining—and accurate?

October 27, 2017 — Brooke Borel

Biotech

Can Scientists Convince the Public to Accept CRISPR and Gene Drives?

Scientists are trying new ways to win over a skeptical public

October 10, 2017 — Brooke Borel