Fact checking in the era of Fake News

To identify any “Fake news” one needs to know the basic principles, the method, and the tools ... but also common sense and a lot of caution. Here are the techniques that the AFP Factuel team uses every day.

Welcome to this course!

• Introduction
• Meet the instructor

1.0 - Who said that?

• 1.1 - Introduction
• 1.2 - Which sites to believe?
• 1.3 - True or False Twitter / Facebook Accounts
• 1.4 - Screenshots, archiving, google cache
• 1.5 - Quiz

2.0 - How to check a story, a photo, a video?

• 2.1 - Introduction
• 2.2 - Indices, satellite views, and keywords
• 2.3 - Reverse Image Search Engine
• 2.4 - InVID for photos or videos
• 2.5 - Metadata
• 2.6 - Comments & crowdsourcing
• 2.7 - Forensics
• 2.8 - Quiz

3.0 - Advanced search on social networks

• 3.1 - Introduction
• 3.2 - Search on Google (advanced users)
• 3.3 - Search on Twitter
• 3.4 - Search on Facebook
• 3.5 - The factchecker toolbox
• 3.6 - Quiz

Course Wrap-up

• Summary
• Survey

Course Duration: 8 hours approx.