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GIJN Reporter’s Guide to Investigating Digital Threats
GIJN’s Reporter’s Guide to Investigating Digital Threats gives expert advice from journalists and security analysts who are covering and working against the latest manipulation threats, including disinformation, malware, spyware, and trolling. The guide is part of an ongoing Digital Threats project, in which GIJN is working with Craig Silverman and a group of cutting-edge specialist to offer a unique cyber investigations online training program specifically tailored for investigative reporters.
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Guide to Investigating Digital Threats: Introduction
The introductory chapter of the GIJN reporting guide to cyber and digital threats, written by ProPublica’s Craig Silverman, covers investigative best practices, documentation tips, and other advice.
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Guide to Investigating Digital Threats: Disinformation
The first chapter of the GIJN cyber investigations reporting guide to digital threats covers misinformation and disinformation and tools to counter them, as well as case studies.
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Guide to Investigating Digital Threats: Digital Infrastructure
The second installment of the GIJN cyber reporting guide to digital threats covers digital infrastructure and offers tools and resources for investigating online.
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Guide to Investigating the Digital Threat Landscape
The third installment of the GIJN guide to investigating cyber and digital threats covers the digital threat landscape and offers tools and resources for protecting one’s reporting and sources from surveillance and other online attacks.
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Guide to Investigating Digital Threats: Trolling Campaigns
In order to identify, analyze, and expose trolls and trolling campaigns, we need to understand how trolling became a business model.