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This is interesting and give me hope but is it accurate?

This article suggests that vox does not get it right all the time:

https://www.quora.com/Media-Business-in-2015-How-credible-ar...

The author is Max Roser, the economist behind the Our World in Data website (https://ourworldindata.org/). The data is all sourced from that site and seems to be well researched when I have casually browsed the datasets.

I have a lot of respect for his work, but I can't really judge it's accuracy without diving more into the data.

Adam Johnson at FAIR (http://fair.org) criticized the Our World in Data website's standard for Democracy in this article: http://fair.org/home/voxs-cia-backed-democracy-standard-is-o...

I need to read more about the website and where its data is sourced to make a judgement myself, but the above link was informative to me.

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