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Explore a free library of training content provided by First Draft’s highly experienced team. These online courses, toolkits and resources are designed to help both journalists and the public build expertise and stay one step ahead of misinformation.

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Live insights, intelligence, training and reporting guidance on emerging health and vaccine misinformation.

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Cross-platform construction of a conspiracy theory: URL analysis

This recipe details how you can use URLs to see how communities on 4chan, 8kun and Reddit construct conspiracy theories and false narratives on the web.

Tracking the cross-platform spread of harmful and misleading narratives

The recipe gives journalists and researchers the tools to investigate misinformation being spread across 4chan, 8kun and Reddit.

Misinformation networks on YouTube: recommended videos

This recipe gives you the tools to explore conspiracy theories, misinformation or other networks of polluted content that are linked by YouTube’s recommendation system.

How to find misleading YouTube videos on fringe platforms

This recipe teaches you how to scrape YouTube URLs from 4chan, 8kun and Reddit for your online investigations without any code.

How we investigated the spread of Covid-19 vaccine misinformation on Facebook

The platform recently announced a ban on false Covid-19 and vaccine claims, so we used technical methods to see whether it’s working.

Tracking YouTube videos across the web

Learn how to track misinformation, conspiracy theories and banned content from YouTube and other platforms across the web.

Digital Investigation Recipes

This series aims to take misinformation off the menu by revealing the secret ingredients of advanced digital investigation. The recipes provide researchers and journalists with the tools, methods and know-how needed to carry out advanced investigations of their own.

Covering Coronavirus fundamentals: A bitesize guide for journalists

Quickfire course set to help you meet the challenge of health misinformation

Covering coronavirus

Take an in-depth online training course, designed for journalists tackling coronavirus and other health misinformation

Too much information: a public guide to navigating the infodemic

How to separate the helpful from the harmful about coronavirus

How are they funded? Investigating ad trackers with Gephi and the DMI Tracker Tracker tool

This recipe explores how to use Gephi and the DMI Tracker Tracker tool to investigate web tracking devices associated with a given set of websites.

Covering extremism: a reading list

Best practices for effectively — and safely — reporting on extremism.

Check out some of our top training courses from years gone by:

→ Quick Start to Verifying Online Media (2017)

Available in: English, Portuguese, French, German, Bahasa, Italian, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Russian

→ Advanced Verification Training for Journalists (2017)