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How to Verify Bystander Video
From the Minneapolis shootings to the Guthrie kidnapping, visual investigation skills are now mandatory. Here’s how to do it.
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user generated content
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Data Journalism
Rewriting the Rules of Digital Verification: How African Investigative Journalists Are Building New Data Models
The global nonprofit WITNESS seeks to address one of the biggest data gaps in the digital verification landscape: the dependence on tools-based methods that lack local knowledge.
News & Analysis
Using Forensic Methods to Investigate Human Rights Violations in the Middle East
Forensic Architecture, a research agency based in London, blends human rights expertise with research, architectural capabilities, and investigative firepower. Our interview finds out how the team tackles investigations in the Middle East.
Case Studies
Exposing Chaos and Repression in Wuhan with User-Generated Content
An Australian documentary team used user-generated footage to create a film about Wuhan, the city at the epicenter of China’s COVID-19 outbreak. They used clips filmed on mobile phones that showed people with the virus being dragged into vans by police, and bodies left on the street and on hospital floors, using different tools to verify the material.