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Vaccine Insights Flexible Learning Course

How journalists can keep safe and connected in a crisis

Ten tips for physical and digital safety when reporting.

Introducing an SMS course to prepare for US election misinformation

Learn how to protect yourself and your community from misinformation with our free two-week text message course.

How to investigate health misinformation (and anything else) using Twitter’s API

Follow this step-by-step guide to collect and analyse data from Twitter, about anything from coronavirus rumours to anti-vax claims and more.

The student view: Verification of disinformation in the Baltics

First Draft is training the next generation of journalists to monitor, investigate and verify online content. Latvian-Russian student Jekaterina Drozdovica talks about her favourite verification tools and the role of emotions in information disorder

Indonesian Journalists Prepare to Bring Verification to a Wider Audience

First Draft, the Google News Initiative and Internews bring the "Training of Trainers" program to Jakarta

How far breaking-news misinformation and verification have come

First Draft's Eoghan Sweeney offers his take on how the field of verification has changed to tee up our free, one-hour course

Free Online Course on Identifying Misinformation

Our free, one-hour course teaches journalists and the general public how to verify online media, so that they don't fall for hoaxes, rumors and misinformation

First Draft launches its online verification training course

Our new course teaches students how to verify photos or videos online so they don't fall for hoaxes, rumors and misinformation in their reporting

#FDLive 3: Free training for journalists, livestreamed from AJ+ on July 14

Speakers from Reportedly, Dig Deeper Media and Meedan will discuss putting community first in social newsgathering and verification