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Bill Adair

@BillAdairDuke

Bill Adair was the Washington bureau chief for the St. Petersburg Times and is the creator of PolitiFact.

Determining If a Politician Is Telling the Truth

‘Through our Truth-O-Meter, we graphically show the relative truth of each claim.’
June 15, 2008
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