Join Duke Twitter Chat Prior to, During Tonight’s Debate

Three Duke professors will be taking questions in a Twitter chat prior to and during Monday night’s presidential debate.

The hashtag for the Twitter chat is #DukeDebateWatch and members of the Duke community are invited to participate on Twitter and to follow the conversation online.

The chat will start at 8:30 p.m., 30 minutes before the start of the debate, and people who use this hashtag are asked to be respectful in their comments.

Professors Connel Fullenkamp, Nicholas Carnes and Eileen Chow will be fielding questions before and during the debate. Fullenkamp, an ecnomics professor, advises the Duke Debate Team, and earlier today they posted five things to look for during the debate on Duke’s Medium account. Carnes is a public policy professor who studies, among other things, why we have so few blue-collar candidates. Chow, a faculty member in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, co-directs the Duke Story Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute, and she will examine the reality show quality of tonight's debate as well as how people process differently the speech of women and men.

Duke alumni attending debate watch parties in New York City and Washington, D.C., are expected to join in the discussion.

Also, at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Duke public policy professor Bill Adair will discuss with Duke student Amanda Lewellyn how fact-checkers did their job during the debate. You can watch the Facebook Live discussion on Duke’s Facebook page.

When working at the St. Pete Times in 2007, Adair created the Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact, and he has since built it into the largest fact-checking effort in history. Adair and his team of fact-checkers were quickly assessing whether either of the candidates told any whoppers during the debate.