Additional learning material

We hope you found this course on tools for checking the information and image verification useful. Please find below a few resources for your further reading.

First Draft’s essential guide to Verifying Online Information (2019): https://firstdraftnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Verifying_Online_Information_Digital_AW.pdf?x89004

Bellingcat’s Guide to Using Reverse Image Search for Investigations (2019):

https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/12/26/guide-to-using-reverse-image-search-for-investigations/

Verification and Digital Investigations Resources, a comprehensive list of resources presented by Craig Silverman of BuzzFeed at IJAsia18, which he updates and maintains:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZJbIUk5L8fe3VKK9CLVNMj9qOFdXG-RhQT6pyEgsS4I/edit

The Verification Handbook, edited by Silverman and written by journalists from the BBC, Storyful, ABC, Digital First Media and elsewhere:

https://datajournalism.com/read/handbook/verification-1

Six Fake News Techniques and Simple Tools to Vet Them, by Olga Yurkova, Ukraine’s StopFake co-founder:

What to Watch for in the Coming Wave of “Deep Fake” Videos, by Samantha Sunne (2018):

How to Spot Fake Images Anywhere on the Internet, by Henk van Ess (2019):

https://factcheckingday.com/articles/33/how-to-spot-fake-images-anywhere-on-the-internet

100 Tools and Tricks to Verify Instagram Posts, by Henk van Ess (2019):

https://factcheckingday.com/articles/37/10-tools-and-tricks-to-verify-instagram-posts

Satellite Images and Shadow Analysis: How The New York Times Verifies Eyewitness Videos, by Christoph Koettl (2018):

Six lessons from my deepfakes research at Stanford, by Tom Van de Weghe (2019):

https://medium.com/jsk-class-of-2019/six-lessons-from-my-deepfake-research-at-stanford-1666594a8e50

How The Wall Street Journal is preparing its journalists to detect deepfakes, by Nieman Labs (2018):

How to Fact-Check Politics in Countries with No Press Freedom, by Daniel Funke (2018):

3 Quick Ways to Verify Images On a Smartphone, by Raymond Joseph (2018):

Bellingcat’s Digital Forensics Tools, a rich list of open-source verification and investigation tools and methods:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18rtqh8EG2q1xBo2cLNyhIDuK9jrPGwYr9DI2UncoqJQ/edit#gid=930747607

Getting Started in Online Open-Source Investigations, by Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat (2016):

A Global Guide to Initiatives Tackling “Fake News”, by Fergus Bell (2017):

How Not to Be Wrong, by Winny de Jong (2017):