Go verify! Intensive course in fact-checking as journalistic method (1d)

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Welcome and course introduction

Most welcome to "Go verify! Intensive course in fact-checking and verification as journalistic method"

Introduction lecture: Powerpoint

Part I: Understanding and countering information influence activities

Introduction

Episode 1

Episode 1: What are information influence activities?

Episode 1. Powerpoint

Script Episode 1

Discussion questions Episode 1

Further reading Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 2: Techniques and strategies used in information influence activities

Episode 2. Powerpoint

Script Episode 2

Discussion questions Episode 2

Further reading Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 3: How to identify and analyse information influence activities

Episode 3. Powerpoint

Script Episode 3

Discussion questions Episode 3

Further reading Episode 3

Six techniques of malign information influence activities

Episode 4

Episode 4: Strategies and best practices for countering information influence activities

Episode 4. Powerpoint

Script Episode 4

Discussion questions Episode 4

Further reading Episode 4

Part II: Digital verification tools

Introduction: the Verification Toolbox

Introduction: The Verification Toolbox - short lecture

Introduction: The Verification Toolbox - script and links

Exercise 1

Exercise 1: Reverse image search - fundamentals (short lecture)

Exercise 1: Reverse image search – script and links

Exercise 2

Exercise 2: Forensic image analysis (short lecture)

Exercise 2: Forensic image analysis – script and links

Exercise 3

Exercise 3: Metadata analysis (short lecture)

Exercise 3: Metadata analysis – script and links

Exercise 4

Exercise 4: AI-manipulated digital content (short lecture)

Exercise 4: AI manipulated content – script and links

Exercise 5

Exercise 5: Digital archiving and archive research (short lecture)

Exercise 5: Digital archiving – script and links

Countering information influence activities. A handbook for journalists

Course evaluation and feedback

Course evaluation and feedback

Course certificate

Course certificate

Test your knowledge about malign information influence activities!

1. Which of these techniques are considered part of information influence?1

enthusiastic and engaging rhetoric

deception techniques, social and cognitive hacking, and disinformation methods

extremist language, persuasion and siphoning attention elsewhere

2. What are some different formats for manipulated content to be disseminated?1

bumper stickers, handwritten notes on message boards, grafitti

fabricated stories, images and video clips

misplaced books at libraries, post-it notes in random places

3. Describe the process of deception.1

inventing a fairy tale, publishing a children's book, organise a youth camp

meet with politicians, journalists and fact-checkers

creating the false content, strategically spreading it across various platforms, and leveraging social media algorithms to amplify its reach

4. Is ‘confirmation bias’ used in social or cognitive hacking?1

social

cognitive

5. Describe social hacking.1

exploiting vulnerabilities in certain target groups

designing conspiracy theories

spreading false information on causal connections

6. What are these steps describing: ‘creation, seeding, amplification, and reinforcement’?1

malinformation campaign

misinformation campaign

disinformation campaign

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