Knowledge@Wharton:  The idea of creating this type of an app — where did it get started?

Hunter Scarborough: I was working very long hours in my last job, and when an election rolled around, I just didn’t have time to do personal research. I wasn’t keen to vote on a sound bite from a news anchor or a sound bite from an uncle at the dinner table. I really wanted to know who these candidates were, and I felt the only way to do that was to dive in and spend a lot of time looking at their track records, looking at the conflicting media sources that we have out there, and comparing everything — which is a lot to expect of your average voter, right? I figured, in the 21st century, there had to be a way to leverage technology to solve that problem. So that’s how we got started on it.