In this course, we'll teach you the first steps of verifying online media—including basic provenance, source, time and location checks. The course is designed as an introduction that anyone can use to quickly improve their digital literacy skills. It takes around one hour.
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English Portugues do Brasil Français Deutsch Bahasa Indonesia Italiano Español Latino Americano 日本語 한국어 русскийGetting started
About Claire Wardle
Why verification matters
Case study: Eagle snatches baby
Browser extensions
Provenance
Assessing provenance
The challenge of dealing with scrapes
Intro to reverse image search
How to find a post’s unique identification code
Digital footprints and timestamps
Case study: Florida fireball
How to research digital footprints
Case study: Finding Dylann Roof
Verifying dates
How to find upload time stamps
Infographic: Social media date stamps
Geo-location
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In this advanced course, we’ll teach you the steps involved in verifying the eyewitness media, fabricated websites, visual memes and manipulated videos that emerge on social media. For newsroom training managers, we hope that you can encourage your staff to take the course online, or you can take individual videos and tutorials and use during brown-bag lunches. The course is by Dr. Claire Wardle.
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English Portugues do Brasil Français Deutsch Bahasa Indonesia Italiano Español Latino Americano 日本語 한국어 русскийUnit 1: Getting started with verification
About Claire Wardle
Learning objectives
Unit 1 outline
Welcome to the course
Why verification matters
How easy it is to get fooled
Case study: Pig saves goat
Case study: Eagle snatches baby
Case study: London riots photo
Debunking breaking news
Working as a professional
Verification FAQs
Toolkit walk-through
Browser extensions
First Draft checklists
Unit 1 reading list
Unit 1 toolbox
Unit 2: Verification as process
Learning Objectives
Unit 2 outline
Intro to verification as process
Case study: Khan Sheikhoun
The challenge of dealing with scrapes
Metadata explained
Case study: Florida fireball
Intro to reverse image search
Google reverse image search
Using TinEye
How to find a post’s unique identification code
Photo manipulation
Unit 3: Investigating digital footprints
Learning objectives
Unit 3 outline
How to investigate digital footprints
Assessing provenance
How to research digital footprints
Website registration
Case study: How tools come together
Case study: Finding Dylann Roof
Running verification tests
Examining the ‘who’
Unit 3 reading list
Unit 3 toolbox
Unit 4: Learning date and time stamps
Learning objectives
Unit 4 Outline
Learning date and time stamps
Verifying dates
How to find upload time stamps
Infographic: Social media date stamps
Date and time stamps interactive
Using Wolfram Alpha
A quick introduction to shadow analysis
EXIF data interactive
Scavenger hunt
Piecing it all together
Examining the ‘when’
Unit 4 reading list
Unit 4 toolbox
Unit 5: Understanding geo-location
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