## Project name

Talking Point Tracker

## Timeframe

May 2018 – ∞

## Code

BIF 13

## Tagline

Summarized TV for fact checkers

## Description

You know that people say a lot of crazy stuff on television, but did you know there is a HUGE audience listening when that happens?

To put it in perspective: if you took everybody in the United States who primarily gets their news from TV and formed a new nation for them, then that nation's population would essentially match the current population of the United States.

I'm saying that most people in the U.S. get their news from TV.

Talking Point Tracker, funded by the Duke Reporters Lab, uses [Opened Captions](/content/projects/talking-point-tracker/openedcaptions.com) to keep track of the zeitgeist of television and report back on what it finds. The primary users are fact checkers who want to know the hot trends of a given moment of time, and use that to decide what to fact check.

## Proofs of existence

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## More proofs

- [Source code](https://github.com/BadIdeaFactory/talking-point-tracker)
- [BIFFUD Application](https://github.com/BadIdeaFactory/corporate/issues/68)

## Needs

- Code
- Graphic Design
- UX / UI Design
- Users

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