Bill Adair (journalist)

[2] In 1997 he was assigned to the Washington bureau where he covered Congress, the White House, the Supreme Court, national politics and aviation safety.

[1] In writing the book, Adair was granted access to the five-year inquiry by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).

PolitiFact's Argument Ender” mobile app and conduct research on fact-checking as a faculty member at Duke University.

[3] Upon his retirement from PolitiFact, Adair said in October 2024 that Republicans lied far more than Democrats, by a margin of 55% to 31% for fact checks conducted between 2016 and 2021.

Adair has said he would “like to continue experimenting with things that really take the power of the web and mobile devices in presenting information in new ways.

Bill Adair (right) with Jamal Simmons at the 2008 Democratic National Convention