Political ads often make statements that reference a news story, because third-party evidence is more credible than other sorts of statements. But sometimes, those ads don't always tell the truth about what the original evidence really says.
Since 2008, we've coded hundreds of presidential spots that contain news-mediated evidence, and then found the original stories cited in those ads, and then determined whether what the ad says matches what the news evidence says. (So far, we've found that news stories are "misued" about a third of the time.)
And now it's time for 2024 presidential ads. We're looking for help to find and download presidential campaign ads that refer to news-mediated evidence. Then we need help to find the original n...
