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Bayliss is a PolitiFact, Data & Disinformation Reporter at the Austin-American Statesman. Previously, she spent 1.5 years on USA TODAY's Fact-Check Reporting Team, interned at The Philadelphia Inquirer, and taught English in Marseille, France. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 2021 with a major in English and minors in Computer Science and French.

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