If you want live — or close to live — fact-checking during Tuesday's VP debate, you won't get a ton of it from the CBS broadcast. But CBS News will offer fact-checking via its website. You will have a choice: Go find that site the same way you find anything else on your phone — or use a QR code.
America! CBS is hosting Tuesday's vice presidential debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance . But this won't be your run-of-the-mill debate, The New York Times tells us. This time around, CBS will be "using technology to try something new.
" That newfangled technology? A website. To be fair, that's not exactly how CBS and the Times are putting it. CBS's digital arm, the Times reports , will be running what we internet publishing people sometimes call a "live blog," which will fact-check some of Walz and Vance's arguments.
(Debate moderators Norah O'Donnell and Margaret Brennan won't be doing a ton of fact-checking during the broadcast itself, CBS has said.) But live blogs aren't anything new. The new, new thing, the Times stresses, will be that CBS will run a QR code onscreen during the debate.
So viewers can use that tech to navigate to the liveblog run by a 20-person " CBS News Confirmed " team. That's it. That's the whole thing.
You are reading this on a website, so I'm confident you know how QR codes work. To spell it out anyway: QR codes are supposed to be shortcuts to take you to a website, using the camera on your smartphone. But if you are holding a phone while you're watchi.
