Sunday, January 26, 2025

Tools

Advanced Guide on Verifying Video Content

By  Aric Toler, BellingcatOne of the most common issues for researchers and journalists is verifying user-generated video content, most often found on social networks...

How to Spot Visualization Lies

By Nathan Yau, FlowingData By Nathan Yau, FlowingData It used to be that we’d see a poorly made graph or a data design goof, laugh it...

Creating a Trust Toolkit for journalism

Over the last decade newsrooms have spent a lot of time building their digital toolbox. But today we need a new toolbox for building...

How to verify YouTube videos

Amnesty International launches a new site to help journalists verify YouTube videos You can hear gunshots in the background of this shaky amateur YouTube video....

Tool for newsgathering: Archive videos and collaborate on verification with Video Vault

Do you find newsworthy videos are often deleted before you get a chance to verify them and use them in your reporting? Video Vault...

How to use RuNet Echo’s Open-Source Research Guidebook

This article is part of a larger guidebook by RuNet Echo to help people learn how to conduct open-source research on the Russian Internet....

How to Learn More About the Big Wigs and Public Officials in Russia and...

This article is part of a larger guidebook by RuNet Echo to help people learn how to conduct open-source research on the Russian Internet....

Want to Research the Russian Internet But Don’t Speak Russian? We Can Help.

This article is part of a larger guidebook by RuNet Echo to help people learn how to conduct open-source research on the Russian Internet....

How to Save Online Evidence and Why It Matters: Part One

As journalists we are used to saving information. We securely store documents, keep meticulous notes, save and back up important emails on our computers....

How to Find Information on Facebook. Part 2

Our previous article about Facebook searches discussed how to use the Graph Search tool and what useful information can be retrieved with its help....